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Lisette S Venier Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$77k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2024
18
Organizations funded FY2022
17%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$8,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 18
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$1.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 17% of the organizations Lisette S Venier Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22
Housing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving23$77k30%
FY202218$68k17%
FY202117$60k6%
FY202017$79kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$42kHousing & Shelter$35kHealth$34kEducation$33kReligion$30kFood & Nutrition$28kAnimals$15kHuman Services$13kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
NJ
VA
MD
AR
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 16 grantees
All grantees of Lisette S Venier Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Trustees of Reservations$34,50040%
The Commonwealth School Inc$25,00040%
Children's Hospital Corporation$23,00040%
The Food Project Inc$20,00040%
Centerboard Inc$8,00040%
Lesley University$8,00040%
My Brother's Table Inc$8,00040%
Family Promise Inc$8,00040%
Northeast Animal Shelter Inc$6,00040%
Pine Street Inn Inc$5,00040%
Rosie's Place Inc$4,00030%
Native Land Conservancy Inc$3,00010%
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc$2,00010%
The Salem Mission Inc$2,00010%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$2,00010%
Broken Tail Rescue Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($124k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lisette S Venier Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Trustees of Reservations: $34,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Commonwealth School Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Food Project Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCenterboard Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLesley University: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMy Brother's Table Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Promise Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNortheast Animal Shelter Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPine Street Inn Inc: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRosie's Place Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNative Land Conservancy Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Audubon Society Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salem Mission Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBroken Tail Rescue Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Boston Foundation IncMA13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Lisette S Venier Charitable Foundation

How much does Lisette S Venier Charitable Foundation give?
Lisette S Venier Charitable Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $76,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does Lisette S Venier Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (15%), Housing & Shelter (12%), Health (12%).
Who are Lisette S Venier Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Trustees of Reservations ($35k), The Commonwealth School Inc ($25k), Children's Hospital Corporation ($23k).
Does Lisette S Venier Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lisette S Venier Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lisette S Venier Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Lisette S Venier Charitable Foundation based?
Lisette S Venier Charitable Foundation is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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