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The Lander Family Charitable 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| HOMESTART INC | $6,000 |
| SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND | $6,000 |
| RE-IMAGINING MIGRATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE | $4,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $4,000 |
| THE INNOCENCE PROJECT | $3,500 |
| GENERATION CITIZEN | $3,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $3,500 |
| COMPASS WORKING CAPITAL | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| MASSACHUSETTS BAIL FUND | $3,000 |
| MY BROTHERS KEEPERS CAMBRIDGE | $3,000 |
| THE ALGEBRA PROJECT | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
101 repeat relationships — 82 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- HIHomeStart Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $36k · revenue +113%
- TITHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +135%
- SFSEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND8× · 2018–2025 · $29k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- MMITone grant, 2017 · $1k
- PCPRINCIPAL CLASS OF 1978 FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
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.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The mission of the volunteer lawyers project of the boston bar association is to increase access to justice by delivering high quality pro bono civil legal services to eligible clients in the greater boston area.
Techbridge breaks the cycle of generational poverty through the innovative use of technology to transform nonprofit and community impact. techbridge's work is focused on four pillars: hunger relief, homeless support, social justice and…
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lenny Zakim Fund and the most unlike its peers is Southerners On New Ground 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 29 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
88 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. 88 of the 126 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 CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HomeStart Inc ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND ↗
- Who funds GENERATION CITIZEN INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Bail Fund ↗
- Who funds COMPASS WORKING CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds RE-IMAGINING MIGRATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds CASPAR INC ↗
- Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds POLITICAL ASYLUMIMMIGRATION REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE ALGEBRA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Transgender Law Center ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LA COLABORATIVA INC ↗
- Who funds SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Philanthropy Connection Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT RESTORE US ↗
- Who funds THE LOOP LAB INC ↗
- Who funds DE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING ↗
- Who funds FULLER PROJECT FOR INTERNATIONAL REPORTING INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC ↗
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: Cambridge Community Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Ploughshares Foundation · Wagner Foundation · The Klarman Family Foundation
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 The Lander Family Charitable Foundation 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Bagly Inc — 39% of income from government
- The Young People's Project Inc — 39% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- HomeStart Inc — 20% of income from government
- The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- Mystic River Watershed Association Inc — 18% of income from government
- Community Art Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Federation for Children Wspecial Needs — 10% of income from government
- De Novo Center for Justice and Healing — 9% of income from government
- Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc — 8% of income from government
- Cambridge Community Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- East End House Inc — 3% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cambridge Young Women's Christian Association — 3% of income from government
- Central Square Theater Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Theater Offensive Inc — 2% of income from government
- Caspar Inc — 1% of income from government
- Greenroots Inc — 1% of income from government
- Compass Working Capital Inc — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc — 1% of income from government
- Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Bennington College 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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