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LAWRENCE & LILLIAN SOLOMON FOUNDATION INC

LAWRENCE & LILLIAN SOLOMON FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,675,000 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($2,675,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$675k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$2.7M
Net assets
$6.9M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 74%
01What it does

What Lawrence & Lillian Solomon Foundation Inc does

Program

  1. None. All of the foundation's activities were indirect (not direct) charitable activities according to regulation section 53.4942(b) - (1)(b)(1).

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($7.7M)2021 Revenue 58 ($707k) Expenses 108 ($1.4M) Net assets 92 ($7.1M)2022 Revenue 118 ($1.4M) Expenses 79 ($1.0M) Net assets 98 ($7.5M)2023 Revenue 55 ($671k) Expenses 83 ($1.1M) Net assets 93 ($7.1M)2024 Revenue 56 ($675k) Expenses 71 ($914k) Net assets 89 ($6.9M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (56)Expenses (71)Net assets (89)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $7.7M to $7.1M (−8%).

$7.7M
$7.1M
$7.5M
$7.1M
$6.9M
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Herbert Nolan

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

20202021202220232024
Listed33322
Joined·+0+0··
No longer listed·00··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $895k → $400k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of LAWRENCE & LILLIAN SOLOMON FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of LAWRENCE & LILLIAN SOLOMON FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LAWRENCE & LILLIAN SOLOMON FOUNDATION INC's revenue fell 44% between 2020 and 2024.

Months of reserve5.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−14% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds LAWRENCE & LILLIAN SOLOMON FOUNDATION INC?
LAWRENCE & LILLIAN SOLOMON FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,675,000 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($2,675,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LAWRENCE & LILLIAN SOLOMON FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,675,000 in grants to LAWRENCE & LILLIAN SOLOMON FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LAWRENCE & LILLIAN SOLOMON FOUNDATION INC?
BARR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,675,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAWRENCE & LILLIAN SOLOMON FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing