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Nancy & Maurice Lazarus Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION | $4,000 |
| FENWAY HIGH SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| WGBH | $3,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $2,250 |
| LESLEY UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $1,500 |
| MASS LAW REFORM INSTITUTE | $1,500 |
| OUTER CAPE HEALTH CENTER | $1,500 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY LEE SCOTT RACHMAN | $1,500 |
| WBUR | $1,500 |
| PINE STREET INN | $1,250 |
| MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| THE MARFAN FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 78% 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.
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.
78 repeat relationships — 76 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- FHFenway High School Fund CO Fenway High School4× · 2021–2024 · $28k · revenue +45%
- ACAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +23%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC2× · 2023–2024 · $8k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1k
- VNVISTING NURSES OF CAPE CODone grant, 2021 · $500
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $200
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Education and Research
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Aquarium Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Watertown Cooperative Nursery School 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 43 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 90 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 Fenway High School Fund CO Fenway High School ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds LESLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds WATER COMPASS INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD MODERN HOUSE TRUST ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · The Arons Family Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Conroy Family Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Ibm International Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Nancy & Maurice Lazarus Fund 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.
- Bowdoin Street Health Center Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Center for Coastal Studies Inc — 26% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- The Farm School Inc — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- De Novo Center for Justice and Healing — 9% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc — 6% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boston Baroque Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Wellfleet Preservation Hall Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Lawyers for Civil Rights Inc — 1% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lesley University — 1% of income from government
- Wellfleet Historical Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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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