· Private foundation
Matthew & Susan K Lyons Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
80% of Matthew & Susan K Lyons Family Foundation Inc’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Matthew & Susan K Lyons Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $85k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k11 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $24,000 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $16,250 |
| ST PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL | $7,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NY | $6,000 |
| COLLEGE OF HOLY CROSS | $6,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| FORDHAM UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY | $4,000 |
| NY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,540 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $2,000 |
| MUSEM OF MODERN ART | $1,750 |
| EVA'S VILLAGE | $1,645 |
| THE MORGAN LIBRARY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2019 · $49k · revenue +45%- NYNew York University4× · 2017–2020 · $35k · revenue +76%
- FUFordham University3× · 2017–2019 · $23k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- ASalsac st judeone grant, 2017 · $6k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIESone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
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Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
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Education, research, medical services and other public services.
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How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 18 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds EVA'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds PASSAIC COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Matthew & Susan K Lyons Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Matthew & Susan K Lyons Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Eva's Village Inc: 19% of income from government
How this is measured
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