· Private foundation
Nancy & Maurice Lazarus Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| OUTER CAPE HEALTH CENTER | $1,500 |
| MASS LAW REFORM INSTITUTE | $1,500 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY LEE SCOTT RACHMAN | $1,500 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $1,500 |
| WBUR | $1,500 |
| PINE STREET INN | $1,250 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $1,000 |
| CAPE COD MODERN HOUSE TRUST | $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.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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
How this is measured
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%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $8k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- MSMEDICINES SANS FRONTIERESone grant, 2022 · $1k
- VNVISTING NURSES OF CAPE CODone grant, 2021 · $500
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $200
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.
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…
How this is measured
59 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. 59 of the 90 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 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds LESLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WATER COMPASS INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD MODERN HOUSE TRUST ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
- Who funds WELLFLEET CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nancy & Maurice Lazarus Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nancy & Maurice Lazarus Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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