· Private foundation
Lisa P Loeb Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEWTON-WELLESLEY HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES | $10,000 |
| MASS GENEREL HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| HEBREW SENIORLIFE | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $7,000 |
| FOUNDATION OF MASS EYE & EAR | $5,000 |
| LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH | $5,000 |
| FAMILY ACCESS | $2,000 |
| JEWISH CEMETERY ASSOCIATION OF MASS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ROSIE'S PLACE | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| SENIOR SERVICES OF NORTHERN CALI | $1,000 |
| NEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC | $1,000 |
| UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- HSHebrew Senior Life Inc5× · 2019–2024 · $42k · revenue +12%
- NFNEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC4× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue ×18
Feeding America3× · 2021–2023 · $6k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $7k
- SJSIERRA JENKINS MEMORIAL FDone grant, 2022 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of hsl hospice is to provide exceptional care to terminally ill patients and their families allowing patients to attain the highest quality of life possible. hsl hospice aims to provide the highest quality hospice service that…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.
To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
To build / maintain a strong and united jewish community in order to ensure the continuity of the jewish people. the federation is the central agency for meeting jewish needs and articulating jewish concerns in the capital region, in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Bread-the Walk for Hunger Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cambridge Forum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 60 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Hebrew Senior Life Inc ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY INC ↗
- Who funds NEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC ↗
- Who funds UNDERSTANDING OUR DIFFERENCES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP BAUERCREST INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · GivenGain Foundation USA · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Lisa P Loeb Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Newton Community Service Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- Hospice of the Good Shepherd Inc — 13% of income from government
- Food Link Inc — 9% of income from government
- 2LIFE Communities Inc — 8% of income from government
- Cambridge Forum Inc — 4% of income from government
- Needham Community Council Inc — 2% of income from government
- Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.