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The Lpm Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$58k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What you fund
0169% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Youth Development$198kEducation$74kCommunity Improvement$33kRecreation & Sports$24kHuman Services$18kHealth$15kPhilanthropy$8kInternational$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k30 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
$1,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$356k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RFK COMMUNITY ALLIANCE$17,400
CUSHING ACADEMY$5,100
DON BOSCO CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL$3,500
BRIGHT HORIZONS$3,078
Individual grant recipient$2,600
RFK HUMAN RIGHTS WASHINGTON DC$2,575
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,240
Individual grant recipient$2,000
THE WINTER WALK$2,000
MARIST COLLEGE$1,875
Individual grant recipient$1,500
FIRST TEE OF MASSACHUSETTS$1,400
CUMBERLAND HIGHSCHOOL$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JFS OF METROWEST: $500 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
NH
NY
MA
IN
PA
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
AZ
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$376k · 33 repeat orgs$113k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
89

Total granted

$376k
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+40%

Still filing today

39%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentInternationalHuman ServicesOther

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

  • HH
    HEALING HEROES FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2019–2023 · $4k · revenue +20%
  • MU
    MARIST UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2022–2024 · $4k · revenue +22%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • TB
    THE BOSTON MUNICIPAL RESEARCH
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • PS
    PERKINS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
Ocean State Cancer Crushers
4
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
5
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
8
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

9
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
10
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
11
The Children's Cancer Cause Inc

The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.

Health
12
Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network Inc

The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Can Help Inc and the most unlike its peers is We Beat Cancer. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEarly Childhood Care and Ed…Performing Arts Organizatio…International Development A…Senior Residential CareFraternal Lodge Organizatio…Local Scholarship and Commu…Firefighter & Police Labor …Animal Rescue and AdoptionMember Recreation ClubsEducation Innovation & Advo…University Operations and S…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%11%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr15%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%5%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr19%24%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr15%47%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
11%
4,047/36,515

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.

04the grantee network

36 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 140 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/36
Grantees still filing
23/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RFK CHILDREN'S ACTION CORPS — $182,100 · OtherRFK CHILDREN'S ACTION CORPSRFK COMMUNITY ALLIANCE — $32,080 · OtherRFK COMMUNITY ALLIANCENEWBURY COLLEGE INC — $20,550 · OtherROBERT F KENNEDY CHILDREN'S ACTION CORPS INC — $17,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · Other+110 more — $174,606 · Other+110 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF THE CUSHING ACADEMY — $15,100 · EducationMARIST UNIVERSITY — $3,600 · EducationCOTTING SCHOOL INC — $1,000 · EducationELLIS EARLY LEARNING INC — $1,000 · EducationRivier University — $1,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORG — $1,000 · Education+1 more — $250 · EducationDCU for Kids — $5,500 · PhilanthropyHEALING HEROES FOUNDATION INC — $3,700 · PhilanthropyCTDI CARES — $2,050 · PhilanthropyCOPS FOR KIDS WITH CANCER INC — $1,000 · PhilanthropyRodman For Kids Inc — $500 · Philanthropy+2 more — $400 · PhilanthropySave The Children Federation Inc — $3,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF CARITAS CUBANA CORP — $1,750 · InternationalONE CAN HELP INC — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentBEANTOWN SLAM INCORPORATED — $500 · Youth DevelopmentYouth Opportunities Unlimited Inc — $500 · Youth DevelopmentDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $1,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association — $500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $350 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $250 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $100 · HealthWINTER WALK INC — $2,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$441,536Education$22,950Philanthropy$13,150International$4,750Youth Development$3,000Health$2,200Housing & Shelter$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEWBURY COLLEGE INC — $20,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT F KENNEDY CHILDREN'S ACTION CORPS INC — $17,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE CUSHING ACADEMY — $15,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDCU for Kids — $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEALING HEROES FOUNDATION INC — $3,700 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMARIST UNIVERSITY — $3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIKES NOT BOMBS INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCTDI CARES — $2,050 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetONE CAN HELP INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWINTER WALK INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF CARITAS CUBANA CORP — $1,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS GOLF ASSOCIATION INC — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOTTING SCHOOL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOPS FOR KIDS WITH CANCER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELLIS EARLY LEARNING INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRivier University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEANTOWN SLAM INCORPORATED — $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRodman For Kids Inc — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Opportunities Unlimited Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNOR DONOVAN MEMORIAL FUND INC — $200 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 NEWBURY COLLEGE INC
  • Who funds ROBERT F KENNEDY CHILDREN'S ACTION CORPS INC
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE CUSHING ACADEMY
  • Who funds DCU for Kids
  • Who funds HEALING HEROES FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MARIST UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc
  • Who funds BIKES NOT BOMBS INC
  • Who funds CTDI CARES
  • Who funds ONE CAN HELP INC
  • Who funds WINTER WALK INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CARITAS CUBANA CORP

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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA19.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · DCU for Kids · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Fidelity Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good

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 Lpm 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 150%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • Ellis Early Learning Inc20% of income from government
  • One Can Help Inc8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children6% of income from government
  • Bikes Not Bombs Inc2% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc0% of income from government
  • Cotting School Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 140 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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