· Private foundation
The Lassor and Fanny Agoos Charity Fund
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $117k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $91k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES | $25,000 |
| BETH ISREAL DEACONESS HOSPITAL | $17,500 |
| FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICES | $12,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $12,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $12,000 |
| ROSIE'S PLACE | $12,000 |
| 2LIFE COMMUNITIES | $6,500 |
| MASS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY FOR CHILDREN | $6,500 |
| HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS | $6,000 |
| ORGANIZED COMMUNITIES AGAINST DEPORTATION | $5,500 |
| UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS | $3,500 |
| UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND | $3,500 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS | $3,500 |
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, $236k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 16 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $155k · revenue +104%
PINE STREET INN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +123%- RPROSIE'S PLACE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $109k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- VHVASSAR-WARNER HOMEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +33%
- PPPOUGHKEEPSIE PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICTone grant, 2018 · $5k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ESOPUS LIBRARYone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
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…
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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.
The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is Canfei Nesharim. 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 37 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 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.
75 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. 75 of the 108 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 Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds Upstream USA Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAYS ACCESS TO JEWISH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS ↗
- Who funds Womanade at The Pinehills Inc co Stonebridge Club ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds US CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds METROWEST WOMEN'S FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND FOOD PANTRY OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds NYS ALLIANCE FOR THE PREVENTION OF SEXUAL ABUSE IN ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HILLEL COUNCIL OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLAIRE'S PLACE FOUNDATION 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: Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Klarman Family Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Ge Aerospace 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 Lassor and Fanny Agoos Charity 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.
- Jewish Vocational Service Inc — 39% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Delaware Inc — 19% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Boston Community Pediatrics Inc — 10% of income from government
- 2LIFE Communities Inc — 8% of income from government
- Gateways Access to Jewish Education Inc — 7% of income from government
- Upstream Usa Inc — 4% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc — 4% of income from government
- Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice Inc — 3% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Mvyradio Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Island Grown Initiative Ltd — 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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