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· Private foundation
LISETTE S VENIER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$68k
Granted FY2022
18
Grants
5
Communities
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of LISETTE S VENIER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
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2021
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2022
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2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2022 · 18 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k16 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
- UUCM$10,000
- THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS$10,000
- HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$8,000
- HAWC$5,000
- BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$5,000
- THE FOOD PROJECT$5,000
- COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL$5,000
- PREP AT PINGREE$5,000
- LIFEBRIDGE$2,000
- FAMILY PROMISE$2,000
- HEART OF THE CATSKILLS ANIMAL SHELT$2,000
- MY BROTHER'S TABLE$2,000
- LESLEY UNIVERSITY$2,000
- ROSIE'S PLACE$1,000
- NORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER$1,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$179k · 17 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else
17 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
17
1
Total granted
$179k
$5k
Still filing today
53%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Housing & ShelterEnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
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
THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +78%- CSCOMMONWEALTH SCHOOL3× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +102%
- TFTHE FOOD PROJECT3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- SPSMILE PROJECTone grant, 2020 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Pine Street Inn Housing Ii Inc
Pine street inn housing ii, inc. is a massachusetts not-for-profit corporation, which was organized to provide ten elderly individuals with housing facilities and services at the inn's menino house at geneva avenue in boston,…
Housing & Shelter
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Wellesley College
To provide an excellent liberal arts education for women who will make a difference in the world.
Education
3
Emmanuel College
Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with over 2,046 undergraduate and graduate students.
Education
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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.
Education
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Kelsey
The Kelsey advances disability-forward housing solutions that open doors to homes and opportunities for everyone. We both co-develop affordable, accessible, inclusive housing and lead advocacy and field-building efforts to create market…
Housing & Shelter
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Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
Housing & Shelter
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The Wayside Inn
Preserving and providing historical facilities, and promoting early american humanities and culture through hospitality, lodging, education, programming, and events.
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The Ellis School
An independent college preparatory school for girls from age three through twelfth grade.
Education
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Putney School Inc
Independent, coeducational boarding and day secondary school.
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10
New England College
An independent liberal arts college offering undergraduate, graduate and professional programs.
Education
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New England Lawboston
Education of students
Education
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Peterborough Retirement Community At
To provide excellent housing and health care services to its residents.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pine Street Inn Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lesley University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$131,000Environment$30,000Education$20,000Food & Nutrition$15,000Housing & Shelter$8,000Human Services$3,000
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.
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.
Boston Foundation IncMA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation LISETTE S VENIER CHARITABLE 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE FOOD PROJECT.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~7 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 043262532 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on THE FOOD PROJECT, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Lisette S Venier Charitable Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Lisette S Venier Charitable Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home
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