· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BRIGHT HORIZONS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| ONE COMPANY FUND | $10,000 |
| COALITION FOR HEALTHY DEMOCRACY | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- NGNEEDHAM GOES PURPLE INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -46%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 NEEDHAM GOES PURPLE INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lissy Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lissy Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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