· Private foundation
The Lavin Family Foundation Inc
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $247k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $75,000 |
| SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| WETA | $20,000 |
| ABORTION FUND OF MARYLAND | $20,000 |
| FRESHFARM | $20,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| ASYLUMWORKS | $10,000 |
| N STREET VILLAGE INC | $10,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP PLACE | $10,000 |
| BRAIN & BEHAVIOR FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| CALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $500k · revenue +70%- SMSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $225k · revenue +151%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2025 · $175k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- RCRUESCH CENTER GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $75k
- CTCARON TREATMENT CENTERone grant, 2017 · $25k
- TFTHE FUND FOR JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINEone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Bettie Jane Cancer Foundation 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 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 67 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 TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FRESHFARM MARKETS ↗
- Who funds AsylumWorks ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SITAR ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Friendship Place ↗
- Who funds CALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds N STREET VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DC ABORTION FUND ↗
- Who funds ABORTION FUND OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE RURAL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WILDWOOD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HALCYON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MANIFESTWORKS ↗
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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Lavin Family Foundation Inc 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.
- People's Place Ii Inc — 51% of income from government
- Safespace Inc — 25% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition Inc — 7% of income from government
- Hope Rural School Inc — 6% of income from government
- Round House Theatre Inc — 5% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Beebe Medical Foundation — 2% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% 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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