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Lombard Family Foundation at a glance

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Lombard Family 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.

$485k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$803kYouth Development$754kHuman Services$338kHousing & Shelter$196kEducation$40k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $435k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF EASTERN MA$225,000
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - NEEDHAM$125,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES LABOURE CENTER$85,000
JOHN F KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION$25,000
ROSIES PLACE$10,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES BOSTON$10,000
PAN MASS CHALLENGE$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - NEEDHAM: $125k → 7%JOHN F KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - NEEDHAM: $125k → 7%ROSIES PLACE: $75k → 16%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - NEEDHAM: $100k → 7%ROSIES PLACE: $50k → 16%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - NEEDHAM: $100k → 7%ROSIES PLACE: $20k → 16%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - NEEDHAM: $50k → 7%ROSIES PLACE: $14k → 16%BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL: $15k → 7%ROSIES PLACE: $13k → 16%PAN MASS CHALLENGE: $10k → 7%ROSIES PLACE: $10k → 16%PAN MASS CHALLENGE: $5k → 7%ROSIES PLACE: $10k → 16%ROSIES PLACE: $3k → 16%ROSIES PLACE: $2k → 16%ROSIES PLACE: $500 → 16%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - NEEDHAM: $212k → 16%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - NEEDHAM: $60k → 16%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - NEEDHAM: $11k → 16%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - NEEDHAM: $5k → 16%BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF EASTERN MA: $225k → 16%BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF EASTERN MA: $125k → 16%BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF MASS BAY ASSOCIATION: $125k → 16%BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF EASTERN MA: $100k → 16%BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF MASS BAY ASSOCIATION: $75k → 16%BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF MASS BAY ASSOCIATION: $48k → 16%BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF MASS BAY ASSOCIATION: $30k → 16%BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF MASS BAY ASSOCIATION: $25k → 16%BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF MASS BAY ASSOCIATION: $2k → 16%LABOURE CENTER: $100k → 16%LABOURE CENTER: $100k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES LABOURE CENTER: $85k → 16%LABOURE CENTER: $20k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES BOSTON: $10k → 16%LABOURE CENTER: $10k → 16%LABOURE CENTER: $5k → 16%LABOURE CENTER: $5k → 16%LABOURE CENTER: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 6 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
1

Total granted

$2.0M
$15k

Still filing today

50%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHousing & ShelterEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - NEEDHAM INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $788k · revenue +84%
  • RP
    ROSIE'S PLACE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $196k · revenue +93%
  • PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • BC
    BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
4/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF EASTERN MA: $450,000 · OtherBIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF EASTERN MABIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF MASS BAY ASSOCIATION: $304,400 · OtherBIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF MASS BAY ASSOCIATIONLABOURE CENTER: $242,500 · OtherLABOURE CENTERCATHOLIC CHARITIES LABOURE CENTER: $85,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES LABOURE CENTER+3 more: $40,000 · OtherBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - NEEDHAM INC: $787,500 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - NEEDHAM …ROSIE'S PLACE INC: $196,000 · Housing & ShelterROSIE'S PL…JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $25,000 · Education
Other$1,121,900Health$787,500Housing & Shelter$196,000Education$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - NEEDHAM INC: $787,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $196,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetJOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - NEEDHAM INC ↗
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lombard Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lombard Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Lombard Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lombard Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 10 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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