· Private foundation
The Lost and Foundation Inc
Its FY2018 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 FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k11 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $69k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $196k
- $250k+1 grant · $478k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $478,000 |
| FROM THE TOP | $76,000 |
| ISABELLA STEWARD GARDNER MUSEUM | $60,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $60,000 |
| FROM THE TOP | $25,000 |
| WGBH | $24,347 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $20,150 |
| BOSTON CONSERVATORY ANNUAL FUND | $5,000 |
| WAMC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| JUSTINE MEE LIFF FUND FOR THE EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| THE BIDWELL HOUSE MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,000 |
| COMMITTEE TO LIGHT COMMONWEALTH AVE | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC2× · 2017–2018 · $1.0M · revenue +38%
ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC2× · 2017–2018 · $120k · revenue +117%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2018 · $62k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- BUBOSTON UNIVERSITY TANGLEWOOD INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $60k
- SCSTONEHILL COLLEGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +26%
- TATHE AMERICAN PROSPECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +75%
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.
To build a structurally sound and musically vital ensemble which seeks to explore and present music of the 20th century. all schools, movements and styles from the turn of the century to the present day will be offered. it is the practical…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
To provide access to high-quality music education for anyone who seeks it, regardless of economic status, ability level, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religious affiliation.
To promote understanding of the history of massachusetts and the nation by collecting and communicating materials and resources that foster historical knowledge.
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Boston Landmarks Orchestra Inc and the most unlike its peers is Terezin Music 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.
19 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. 19 of the 37 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 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds FROM THE TOP INC ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds STONEHILL COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN PROSPECT INC ↗
- Who funds JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds Terezin Music Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WAMC ↗
- Who funds THE BOSTON LANDMARKS ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds FENWAY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BIDWELL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SPINAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds 18 DEGREES 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Klarman Family Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Richard K Lubin Family Foundation · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Ford 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 Lost and 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.
- 18 Degrees Inc — 60% of income from government
- Judge Baker Children's Center — 29% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Fenway Alliance Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Boston Landmarks Orchestra Inc — 9% of income from government
- From the Top Inc — 6% of income from government
- Boston Children's Chorus Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc — 1% of income from government
- Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Stonehill College Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 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.