· Private foundation
The Henry and Winifred Lyons Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONCORD ART ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| FENN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| EAGLEBROOK ANNUAL FUND | $6,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES | $5,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL | $3,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL DEAF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE FUND | $3,000 |
| GREATER LOWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BYRN MAWR COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| ST MARY'S CHURCH | $2,500 |
| SMITH COLLEGE FUND | $2,500 |
| ST CHARLES BORROMEO CHURCH | $2,500 |
| PORTSMOUTH ABBEY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
18 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 5 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
MILTON ACADEMY5× · 2019–2023 · $82k · revenue +16%- CACONCORD ART ASSOCIATION7× · 2019–2025 · $67k · revenue +137%
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles7× · 2019–2025 · $20k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER LOWELLone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +9%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +97%
THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITALgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +37%
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.
Lowell school (the school) provides educational services to approximately 314 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. the school strives to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment, and offers a…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
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.
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…
Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…
Lawrence academy recognizes you for who you are, inspires you to take responsibility for who you want to become, supports you as you learn, and empowers you to take action for the greater good.
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…
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…
Laboure college provides high-quality education and prepares women and men for careers in nursing and allied health fields.
Belmont Hill School educates boys in mind, body, and spirit to develop men of good character. Our community encourages and challenges students to discover and pursue passions, seek excellence and face adversity with resilience. We…
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 22 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 MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE FENN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds International Deaf Education Association ↗
- Who funds Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC ↗
- Who funds CHELMSFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER LOWELL ↗
- Who funds ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
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: Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund · Richard K & Nancy L Donahue Charitable Foundation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Henry and Winifred Lyons Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Henry and Winifred Lyons Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc: 27% of income from government
- Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc: 18% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- The Lowell General Hospital: 5% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Greater Lowell: 3% of income from government
- Milton Academy: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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