· Private foundation
The Lorber 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k52 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $284k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Wolf School | $125,000 |
| UVM Foundation | $50,000 |
| Hitchcock Center for the Environment | $30,000 |
| Yiddish Book Center | $25,100 |
| Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc | $25,000 |
| Food Bank of Western Massachusetts | $25,000 |
| Amherst Survival Center | $25,000 |
| Eaglebrook School | $25,000 |
| Historic Deerfield | $21,500 |
| Or HaLev Ctr for Jewish Spirituality | $21,200 |
| Dakin Humane Society | $20,000 |
| Firends of the Wildwood Cemetery | $17,000 |
| Jewish Community of Amherst | $15,650 |
| Jewish Famil Services of Western Massachusetts | $14,000 |
| New England Public Media | $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 (FY20–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 56% of The Lorber Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 41% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
80 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 7 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- TWTHE WOLF SCHOOL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $352k · revenue +60%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $325k · revenue +73%
- AFALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $170k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE JONES LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $105k
- BCBombyx Center for Arts and Equityone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -20%
- FOFRIENDS OF WILDWOOD CEMETERY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +113%
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.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
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…
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
The mission of the new canaan land trust is to foster a connection between the new canaan community and its natural resources through the conservation and sustainable stewardship of our open space.
Conservation and preservation of land.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Reservations and the most unlike its peers is Boston Symphony Orchestra 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 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 81 of the 130 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 THE WOLF SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HITCHCOCK CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SURVIVAL CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC DEERFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE JONES LIBRARY SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds AWAKENED HEART PROJECT ↗
- Who funds POCUMTUCK VALLEY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Bombyx Center for Arts and Equity ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WILDWOOD CEMETERY INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DAKIN PIONEER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Pine Island Camp ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF WMASS ↗
- Who funds KESTREL LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GRIER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR GRAVESTONE STUDIES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PHILATELIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds GUATEMALA AID FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE CYCLING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMHERST CINEMA ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Inyo ↗
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: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · The Nature Conservancy · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Dechambeau Creek Foundation · Ralph & Clara Shuster 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 Lorber 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.
- Hitchcock Center for the Environment Inc — 55% of income from government
- Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc — 35% of income from government
- Survival Centers Inc — 9% of income from government
- Franklin Land Trust Inc — 7% of income from government
- Native Plant Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Bombyx Center for Arts and Equity — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Amherst Cinema Arts Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Public Media Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Historic Deerfield Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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.