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The Lenox 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k49 grants · $167k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $239k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $133k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $75,000 |
| VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART | $58,400 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $30,000 |
| WINOUS POINT MARSH CONSERVANCY | $30,000 |
| JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MASS EYE & EAR | $25,000 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE | $25,000 |
| ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC INDIAN RIVER FOUNDATION | $14,100 |
| CAPE & ISLANDS VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER | $10,000 |
| BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL (OHIO) | $10,000 |
| HOMELESS NOT HOPELESS | $10,000 |
| HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CAPE & ISLAND UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
| VERO BEACH POLICE FOUNDATION | $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 (FY17–25, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +22% for the ones you funded once.
93 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 9 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $287k · revenue +21%- VUVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY5× · 2018–2022 · $125k · revenue +39%
- HBHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL5× · 2017–2021 · $104k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $50k
- BHBOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE NE OHIOone grant, 2022 · $40k
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.
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.
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 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…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
United way's mission is uniting our community and resources to build racial equity and opportunities for all rhode islanders.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Cleveland Museum of Art. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 159 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 HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WINOUS POINT MARSH CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE AND ISLANDS UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HYANNISPORT CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds TABOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE CAPE AND ISLANDS VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLUECOATS INC ↗
- Who funds HALLS CREEK PRESERVATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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 Cleveland Foundation · Indian River Community Foundation Inc · Sullivan Family Fund · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · B Charles and Jay G Ames Foundation · Third Federal Foundation · Carfagna Family-Magis Foundation · The Page Foundation · Holloway Family Foundation · United Way of Indian River County Inc
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 Lenox 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.
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Courageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Indian River County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
- Indian River Land Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
- Family Table Collaborative Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Whole Family Health Center Inc — 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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