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LNS&ARS 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of LNS&ARS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $415k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE | $40,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD HEBREW CENTER | $38,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM | $32,000 |
| SAFE HORIZON | $30,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $30,000 |
| ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHAL SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NYC | $20,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $20,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MA | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF FL | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $15,000 |
| BREARLEY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL | $15,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 10 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k 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
- BCBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE3× · 2023–2025 · $90k · revenue +23%
- SHSAFE HORIZON INC3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +3%
- JBJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC3× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- STSIGNATURE THEATRE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +41%
- OFOBERMAYER FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue +37%
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 the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheriff's Meadow Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Obermayer Foundation 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 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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 39 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 BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds SAFE HORIZON INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREARLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP NEBAGAMON ↗
- Who funds PARK CHILDREN'S DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD FISHERMEN'S PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds The Civilians Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PARITY PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds OBERMAYER FOUNDATION 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: Eric P & Evelyn E Newman Charitable Foundation Dtd 8/1/2013 · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Abigail Rose Solomon Foundation · The Stanton Family Foundation · Sullivan Family Foundation · The Fledgling Fund · Susan S and Kenneth L Wallach Foundation · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 LNS&ARS 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.
- Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc — 34% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc — 2% 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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