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The Lorant 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $134k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERRIMACK COLLEGE - LORANT PIONEER SCHOLARS | $80,000 |
| GATHER FOOD PANTRY | $25,000 |
| NORTH ANDOVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE OPEN DOOR | $25,000 |
| DANA FARBER | $21,400 |
| GIVENGAIN FOUNDATION | $14,807 |
| GATHER FOOD PANTRY | $12,500 |
| HENRY SCHUELER 41 9 FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LABOURE COLLEGE OF HEALTHCARE | $7,772 |
| GREATER LAWRENCE COMM BOATING | $7,500 |
| NEW ENGLAND FOOD FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| EVERYONE'S A PLAYER | $5,000 |
| PEOPLES FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| FRAXA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DANA FARBER | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 70% 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 +35% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 12 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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
- NANorth Andover Scholarship Foundation Inc3× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +112%
- DIDANA-FARBER INC3× · 2023–2025 · $38k · revenue +136%
TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY2× · 2017–2018 · $21k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- BCBOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $75k
MERRIMACK COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +38%- HBHOME BASEone grant, 2019 · $15k
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 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.
Scholarships are awarded to highlight the acedemic excellence of high school seniors in the community
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Northfield mount hermon educates the head, heart and hands of our students. we engage their intellect, compassion, and talents, empowering them to act with humanity and purpose.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Red Sox Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boston Bullpen Project 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 25 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) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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 66 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 North Andover Scholarship Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DANA-FARBER INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BREAD & ROSES INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND FOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY SCHUELER 41 & 9 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRAXA Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EVERYONES A PLAYER INC ↗
- Who funds NEB ALUMNI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LABOURE COLLEGE OF HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS AT WORK INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL OF LAWRENCE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RELIEF ↗
- Who funds PEOPLES FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds COLIN MICHAEL CRONIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISH STRONG ↗
- Who funds NEXT LEVEL BOSTON SPORTS ↗
- Who funds DEXTER SOUTHFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bulens Family Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Artemas W Stearns Trust · RCB Charitable Foundation 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 Lorant 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.
- Cape Abilities Inc — 81% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn — 28% of income from government
- The Megan House Foundation Inc — 15% of income from government
- Worcester Natural History Society Inc — 8% of income from government
- Tufts Medicine Care at Home Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Merrimack College — 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Central Catholic High School of Lawrence 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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