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LYSOA INC

LYSOA INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $374,695 to it, the largest being THE LENNY ZAKIM FUND ($70,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$426k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$375k
Net assets
$38k
7/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%
01What it does

What Lysoa Inc does

Mission

To provide advocacy and emergency services to all high-risk youth, young adults, and their families in the community. We organize and conduct outreach activities, encouraging involvement in community development, assist in job search, and juvenile community service.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide advocacy and emergency services to all high-risk youth, young adults, and their families in the community. We organize and conduct outreach activities, encouraging involvement in community development, assist in job search, and juvenile community service.

    $445,793 spent$425,606 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $445,793.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($123k) Expenses 100 ($119k) Net assets 100 ($6k)2018 Revenue 103 ($127k) Expenses 101 ($119k) Net assets 238 ($13k)2019 Revenue 127 ($156k) Expenses 119 ($142k) Net assets 486 ($27k)2020 Revenue 155 ($190k) Expenses 121 ($143k) Net assets 1323 ($75k)2021 Revenue 159 ($196k) Expenses 181 ($215k) Net assets 987 ($56k)2022 Revenue 181 ($223k) Expenses 213 ($253k) Net assets 443 ($25k)2023 Revenue 183 ($225k) Expenses 192 ($228k) Net assets 394 ($22k)2024 Revenue 249 ($306k) Expenses 240 ($285k) Net assets 686 ($39k)2025 Revenue 388 ($476k) Expenses 384 ($456k) Net assets 1038 ($58k)2026 Revenue 347 ($426k) Expenses 376 ($446k) Net assets 679 ($38k)
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Revenue (347)Expenses (376)Net assets (679)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 2019 to 2020, from $27k to $75k (+172%).

$10k
$13k
$27k
$75k
$59k
$32k
$35k
$45k
$61k
$38k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 70% · 2023 61% · 2024 52% · 2025 67% · 2026 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of LYSOA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,802 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’17
$8k
’18
$14k
’19
$47k
’20
−$19k
’21
−$31k
’22
−$3k
’23
$21k
’24
$20k
’25
−$20k
’26
1.0
months of
reserve

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.

20222023202420252026
Listed77777
Joined·+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $96k.

3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of LYSOA 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.

How concentrated its funding is

LYSOA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

63% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund LYSOA INC.

19%
largest funder
47%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 47% · 2021 59% · 2022 100% · 2023 42% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.

How long its funders stay

50% of LYSOA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

90% of LYSOA INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

NY
MA
MD

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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

LYSOA INC has grown faster than half of the 71 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−5% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 71 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

Government funding LYSOA INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $91k on record.

State$91k
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25
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$91k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like LYSOA INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds LYSOA INC?
LYSOA INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $374,695 to it, the largest being THE LENNY ZAKIM FUND ($70,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LYSOA INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $374,695 in grants to LYSOA INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LYSOA INC?
THE LENNY ZAKIM FUND is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LYSOA 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 13 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing