· Private foundation
Nihla & Bob Lapidus Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL | $20,070 |
| MIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $10,035 |
| ST JUDE | $9,991 |
| CONGREGATION ADATH ISRAEL | $9,986 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $8,831 |
| RUSHFORD CENTER | $7,994 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION - CT | $6,632 |
| YMCA | $5,964 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $5,500 |
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 (FY23–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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
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 +78% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 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
- MHMIDDLESEX HOSPITAL9× · 2017–2025 · $142k · revenue +35%
- RCRushford Center Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +67%
- MCMIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2022 · $51k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- MCMANCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $10k
- OPODDFELLOWS PLAYHOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue +72%
- EFEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +1%
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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…
The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 27 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.
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- Who funds ODDFELLOWS PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
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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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nihla & Bob Lapidus Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nihla & Bob Lapidus Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Rushford Center Inc: 34% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Middlesex Hospital: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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