· Private foundation
The Richard and Clare Lesser Family 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADMIRAL'S COVE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL | $80,000 |
| ADMIRAL'S COVE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES | $15,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD HEBREW CENTER | $5,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| BARNERT TEMPLE | $1,500 |
| MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE | $1,000 |
| PAN-MASS CHALLENGE | $1,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $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 (FY20–25, $214k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +46% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- ACADMIRALS COVE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $306k · revenue +110%
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $240k · revenue +63%- MVMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC4× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +28%
- FFFoundation for Neurologic Diseases Incone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +3%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Human Health Project. 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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 77 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 ADMIRALS COVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Herizon Inc ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Neurologic Diseases Inc ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds Hebrew Senior Life Inc ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SHALOM LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVA'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MVYRADIO INC ↗
- Who funds TIKVA CORP ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds FARM NECK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MELMARK INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Gitlitz Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Richard and Clare Lesser Family 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Eva's Village Inc — 19% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc — 6% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Mvyradio Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.