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Lissy Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $430k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $135,000 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $95,000 |
| BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $10,497 |
| COALITION FOR HEALTHY DEMOCRACY | $10,000 |
| ONE COMPANY FUND | $10,000 |
| BRIGHT HORIZONS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| THE IMMIGRANT LEARNING CENTER | $6,113 |
| ITHACA UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| THE GIVING BACK FUND | $2,000 |
| METRO WEST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,080 |
| GOLF FIGHTS CANCER | $1,049 |
| ACTBLUE - GIFFORDS PAC | $1,000 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $592 |
| OUIMETORG | $531 |
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 (FY18–23, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
53 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2025 · $218k · revenue +45%- SLSALT LICK INCUBATOR INC2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +6%
Elon University4× · 2020–2023 · $120k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $100k
- BHBRIGHT HORIZONS EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2018 · $10k
- AWABACO WINDY BAY RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2019 · $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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
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 mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Boston university affiliated physicians, inc.'s (buap) primary mission is to provide health care services in a manner that promotes health for the benefit of the community, to perform medical and clinical research in the public interest,…
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Impact Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boston Bullpen Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
79 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. 79 of the 139 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 ITHACA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SALT LICK INCUBATOR INC ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT HORIZONS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE IMMIGRANT LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NEEDHAM GOES PURPLE INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Birthday Wishes Inc ↗
- Who funds JOE ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
- Who funds THE NEEDHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · The Shapiro Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Needham Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Eastern Cambridge 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 organization Lissy Family 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.
- Riverside Community Care Inc — 58% of income from government
- The Immigrant Learning Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Brookview House Inc — 34% of income from government
- Samaritans Inc — 31% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation New England — 11% of income from government
- Sibling Connections Inc — 10% of income from government
- Boston Community Pediatrics Inc — 10% of income from government
- Families First Parenting Program Inc — 10% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
- Needham Community Council Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
- The Fessenden School — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Cotting School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Riverview School 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.
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