· Private foundation
The Lodish 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 $10k23 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BROOKLINE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH | $4,693 |
| BROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY | $4,500 |
| HOSPITALITY HOMES | $2,850 |
| CIRCUS SMIRKUS | $2,500 |
| UNICEF | $2,046 |
| KENYON COLLEGE | $1,693 |
| BROOKLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| KELLERMANN FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| CAMP SUNSHINE | $500 |
| STEPS TO SUCCESS | $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 (FY18–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 10% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 15 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
KENYON COLLEGE6× · 2017–2025 · $505k · revenue +23%- BCBROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER3× · 2023–2025 · $312k · revenue +61%
- WIWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH2× · 2017–2018 · $55k · revenue +131%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $50k
- BCBROOKLINE CENTER - WOMEN AT THE CENTERone grant, 2017 · $1k
- UUCLAone grant, 2022 · $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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
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.
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
BCNSP supports the following three pillars of Boston Children's Hospital's four-part mission: (1) providing care to individuals in the community, (2) improving clinical care to its patients, and (3) educating and training clinicians. In…
To develop and maintain the department of clinical neurosciences at the warren alpert medical school of brown university and its affiliated hospitals as one of the premier departments in new england.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Bristol hospital and health care group is committed to enhancing the health and well-being of our community. we will provide safe, quality care and services to our patients through our continuum of services and health promotion. we will…
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…
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridges Homeward Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Portland Adult Education. 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 43 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.
48 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. 48 of the 88 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 KENYON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE CIRCUS BARN INC ↗
- Who funds Hospitality Homes Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPS TO SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds Kellermann Foundation ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES HOMEWARD INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds PEACETREES VIETNAM ↗
- Who funds LONGWOOD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BROOKLINE ROWING INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS AT WORK 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: The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Brookline Community Foundation Inc · The Klarman Family Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Allen & Franka Charlupski Foundation · Susan & Barry E Tatelman Family Foundation · The Albright Foundation · Alchemy 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 Lodish 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.
- Bridges Homeward Inc — 77% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Solutions at Work Inc — 20% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- White Snake Projects Inc — 8% of income from government
- 2LIFE Communities Inc — 8% of income from government
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Steps to Success Inc — 5% of income from government
- Mount Auburn Hospital — 5% of income from government
- Longwood Symphony Orchestra Inc — 4% of income from government
- Fitchburg Art Museum — 2% of income from government
- All Newton Music School Inc — 1% of income from government
- Brookline Music School Inc — 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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