Appendix

The Lenny Zakim Fund

Grantee Partner Organization
1996-2025

2Gether We Eat

365Dad

3rd EyE Youth Empowerment

A Better Tomorrow Services

A Different September Foundation

A Suitable Image

Aaron’s Presents

Adaptive Sports New England

African and American Friendship

African Bridge Network

African Community Center of Lowell

African Community Economic Development of New England (ACEDONE)

Africano Waltham

AfterSchool Partners

Aid to Incarcerated Mothers

Albert D. Holland High School of Technology

All Dorchester Sports & Leadership

Alray Scholars Program

American Chinese Christian Educational and Social Services (ACCESS)

Amplifyme

Angkor Dance Troupe

Ansaar of Worcester Inc

Apprentice Learning

Asian American Support and Resource Agency (AASRA)

Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence

Asian Women For Health

Association of Haitian Women in Boston

Association of Liberians of the Merrimack Valley

Attleboro Area Interfaith Collaborative

Autism Sprinter

Backyard Growers

BalletRox

Beantown Society

beheard.world

Berea Seventh Day Adventist Academy

Bethel A.M.E. Church

Bird Street Community Center

Black and Pink Massachusetts

Black Economic Justice Institute

BMT Support Online

Bobby Mendes Peace Legacy

bodhi & mind yoga

Bosnian Community Center for Resource Development (BCCRD)

Boston Affordable Housing Coalition

Boston Aging Concerns – Young & Old United (BAC-YOU)

Boston Area Gleaners

Boston Cancer Support

Boston Center for Independent Living

Boston Children Services

Boston Children’s Chorus

Boston City Singers

Boston Explorers

Boston GLASS Community Center

Boston Healthcare For Homeless

Boston LesBiGay Urban Foundation

Boston Medical Center

Boston Missionary Baptist Community Center (BMBCC)

Boston Neighborhood Community Land Trust

Boston Raiders Youth Football & Cheer (BRYFC)

Boston Workers Alliance

Boston Youth Wrestling

Bottom Line

Brazilian Women’s Group

Brazilian Worker Center

Bread & Roses Housing Development

Bread of Life

Brockton Interfaith Community (BIC)

Brockton Neighborhood Health Center

Brockton Workers Alliance

Brookview House

Bryce’s Journey

Building Bridges Through Music

Cape Ann Art Haven

Cape Verdean Association of Boston

Cape Verdean Community Unido (CVC Unido)

Career Collaborative

Caribbean U-Turn

Casa Myrna

Catholic Charities Boston

Center for Cooperative Development and Solidarity (CCDS)

Center for Economic Democracy

Center To Support Immigrant Organizing

Centro Comunitario De Trabajadores (CCT)

Centro Latino de Chelsea

Centro Presente

Charles River Health Center

Charlestown Youth Ministry

Chica Project

Children’s Services of Roxbury

Chinese Culture Connection

Chinese Progressive Association

Circus Up

Citizens For Safety

City Life/Vida Urbana

City Mission Society of Boston

City School

City Stage Company

City Strings United

City Year

CityKicks

Cleaveland-Marshall Community Center

Coaching For Change

Coalition for Social Justice Education Fund

CodeSquad

Codman Academy Charter School

Colonel Daniel Marr Boys and Girls Club

Committee for Boston Public Housing

Communities Together

Community Caring Clinic

Community Cooks

Community Economic Development Center of New Bedford (CEDC)

Community Educational Center Of The North End and East Boston

Community Servings

Concerned Citizens Committee

Cooperative Artists Institute

Cooperative Economics for Women (CEW)

Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries

Council of Churches of Greater Springfield

Countdown to Kindergarten

Cultural Exchange Through Soccer (CETS)

Dana Farber Cancer Institute

DEAFinitely

DeeDee’s Cry: Suicide Prevention & Family Support

Dennis McLaughlin House

Dimock Community Health Center

Disability Policy Consortium

Discover Roxbury

Doc Wayne Youth Services

Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation

Dream Out Loud Center

DREAMFAR High School Marathon

Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative

East African Community Outreach

East Boston Adult Education Center

East Boston Community Council

East Boston Community Soup Kitchen

East Boston Social Centers

East End House

Educational Development Group

Empowering People For Inclusive Communities (EPIC)

Encuentro Diaspora Afro

English at Large

Eritrean American Civic Association

Essex County Community Organization (ECCO)

Etgar L’Noar

EV Kids

Express Yourself

Families Creating Together

Families First

Families For Justice As Healing

Fathers’ Uplift

Feminine Empowerment Movement Slam

Firelech Theater

First Five Project

Food Link

For Kids Only

Found In Translation

Franklin Park Coalition

Friends Of The Rafael Hernandez School

Friends of the William E. Carter School

Friends of Yemin Orde

Friends of Youth Opportunity Boston

FriendshipWorks

Fuller Craft Museum

Future Chefs

Gateways Organization

Generations After

Genuine Voices

Girls’ LEAP

Global Ministries Christian Church

Global Village Farms

Grace Renaissance Academic Studies Program (GRASP)

Gratis Healthcare

Greater Boston Food Bank

Greater Boston Interfaith Organization (GBIO)

Greater Boston Morehouse College Alumni

Greater Boston PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays)

Greater Four Corners Action Coalition

Greater Lawrence Family Health Center (GLFHC)

Groundwork Southcoast

Haddis Girma Continuity Forum

Haitian American Youth Soccer

Haitian Coalition of Somerville

Haitian Multi-Service Center

Haley After School Program

Hands To Heart Center – Yoga for the People

Haven Project

Hawthorne Youth & Community Center

Health Care for All

Health Care Without Walls

Healthy Malden

Healthy Waltham

Heart of a Giant Foundation

Hearts and Noses Hospital Clown Troupe

Hebron Food Pantry

HomeStart

HopeWell

Horizons for Homeless Children

Hospitality Homes

Hull Lifesaving Museum

Hyde Square Task Force

I Have A Future

Immigrant Family Service Institute (IFSI)

InnerCity Weightlifting

Inquilnos Boricuas en Accion (IBA)

Institute for Asian American Studies at Umass Boston

Institute for Global Youth Development Programs

Institute for Pan African Cultural Education (PACE)

Island of Hope

Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation (NDC) / Jobs for Jamaica Plain

James P. Timilty Middle School

JCC of Greater Boston

Jewish Family and Children’s Services

Jewish Organizing Institute and Network for Justice (JOIN for Justice)

John Andrew Mazie Memorial Foundation

John W. McCormack Middle School

Joseph C. Cremone Horticultural Therapy Program (JCCHT)

Journeys Of Hope

JOYweavers

Justice At Work

Kids Can Cook

Kids In Tech

KodeConnect

La Colaborativa

La Piñata – The Latin American Cultural Family Network

Lamplight Women’s Literacy Center

Latin American Health Institute

Latin American Planning and Development (LAPD)

LEAP for Education

Learning Works

Legendary Legacies

Lena Park CDC

Level Ground Mixed Martial Arts

Literations

Living Independently for Equality (LIFE Center)

Louis D. Brown Peace Institute

Love Life Now Foundation

Lucy’s Love Bus

Lynn Neighbor To Neighbor

Lynn United For Change Empowerment Project

Lynn Worker Center

Lynn Youth Street Outreach Advocacy (LYSOA)

Madison Park Development Corporation

Massachusetts Alliance on Teen Pregnancy

Massachusetts Coalition of Domestic Workers

Massachusetts Temporary Protected Status Committee

Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition

Matahari Women Workers’ Center

Mattapan Youth Soccer League

Mercy Meals & More

Merrimack Valley Food Bank

Merrimack Valley Project

Mill City Grows

Mission Hill Youth Collaborative

Mission Main Resident Services

Mission Works

MissionSAFE

Mobile Diagnostics Services (MDS)

Moreland Affordable Housing Corporation

Most Precious Blood Church

Mount Olives Community Center

Multi-Service Center

Multicultural Dropout Outreach Collaborative

musiConnects

Muslim Athletic League

Muslim Justice League

My Brother’s Keeper 617

My Life My Choice

Mystic Learning Center

Neighborhood Counseling and Community Services

Neighborhood of Affordable Housing (NOAH)

Neighborhood School

Neighbors United for a Better East Boston (NUBE)

Neighbors Who Care

New England Coalition For Cancer Survivorship

New England Community Project

New England Medical Association

New England Youth Soccer

New Lynn Coalition

New Start Project

Nigerian American Multi-Service Association (NAMSA)

Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School

Notre Dame Education Center

Ohketeau Cultural Center

On Common Ground

On The Rise

One Can Help

ONE Lowell

Open Door Immigration Services (ODIS)

Our Deaf Survivors Center

Our Place Theater Project

Our Restorative Justice

Our Space Our Place

OUT MetroWest

OutstandingLife

P&O Behavioral Health Initiative

ParentChild+

Parenting Resource Associates

Partakers

Partners in Health

Peace At Home

Pediatric Respite Task Force

Phillips Brooks House Association

PieRSquared

Pinnacle Partnerships

Pleasant Street Neighborhood Network Center

Political Asylum / Immigration Representation Project (PAIR Project)

Prep Solutions

Pride Productions

Project 10 East

Project FREE

Project Hip-Hop

Project R.I.G.H.T.

Queer History Boston

Quincy-Geneva Housing Corporation / New Vision CDC

Rachel’s Table

Raising Our Children’s Children

RAW Art Works

Reclaim Roxbury

Refugee and Immigrant Assistance Center (RIAC),

Refugee Immigration Ministry (RIM)

Refugees & Immigrants Cultural Empowerment Massachusetts (RICEMA)

Resiliency for Life

Resilient Coders

Resilient Sisterhood Project

Revive In Action

Rian Immigrant Center

Right to the City Boston

Rise Above Foundation

ROCA

Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center

Safe City Dorchester

Safe Haven Project

Safe Havens: The Interfaith Partnership Against Domestic Violence

Saheli

Saint Paul’s Victory Assembly of God Church

SCIboston

Science Club For Girls

Secret Treasures Are N Demand (S.T.A.N.D.)

Si, Se Puede

Sibling Connections

Sister Mary Hart Children’s Programs

Sisters Unchained

Sitters for Scholars

So The Arts Never Die (STAND)

Social Capital (SCI)

Sociedad Latina

Solutions at Work

Somali Development Center

Somali Parents Advocacy Center for Education (SPACE)

Somerville Commission for Women

Somerville Community Corporation

Songbird Sings

South Boston en Acción

South End/Lower Roxbury Youth Workers Alliance

South Sudanese Enrichment for Families

Southcoast LGBTQ+ Network

SpeakOUT Boston

SpeakSooner

SPOKE

Spontaneous Celebrations

Sportsmen’s Tennis Club

St. Anthony’s Parish

St. Mark Community Education Program

Starlight Children’s Foundation

Steps to Success (STS)

Stories Inspiring Movements (SIM)

Street Peace

Talking Information Center

Teen JUST-US at Temple Israel

Teen Voices

Teens Against Gang Violence

The BELL Foundation

The Boston Foundation

The Boston Project Ministries

The Bridge Center

The Children’s Room Center for Grieving Children and Teenagers

The Dream Network

The Food Project

The Knight News

The Resolution Center

The Resource and Reclamation Center

The SAMFund for Young Adult Survivors of Cancer (Surviving and Moving Forward)

The TRUST Project

The Upward Project

The Welcome Project

Think Outside the Vox

THRIVE Communities Massachusetts

To the Moon and Back

Top Notch Scholars

Transformational Prison Project

Transition House

Translate Gender

Troubadour

Union of Minority Neighborhoods

United Interfaith Action Of Southeastern MA (UIA)

United Methodists Urban Services

United Teen Equality Center (UTEC)

Universal Human Rights International

Up You Mighty Race Performing Arts

Urban Dreams

Urban PowerHouse

Venturing Out

VietAID

Virginia Thurston Healing Garden

Vong Tay Cha Me Viet

Waypoint Adventure

We Are Better Together Warren Daniel Hairston Project

WEATOC

West End House Boys and Girls Club of Allston-Brighton

What’s Up Magazine (Spare Change News)

Whittier Street Health Center

Women Encouraging Empowerment (WEE)

Women’s Institute for Housing and Economic Development

Women’s Supported Housing And Empowerment

Women’s Theological Center (WTC)

Worcester Interfaith

Worcester Refugee Assistance Project (WRAP)

WordPowered

Yad Chessed Fund

Yellow Brick Road Project

Yellow Jackets Youth Organization

Yemin Orde Youth Village

Young Graffiti Masters

Youth and Family Enrichment Services (YOFES)

Youth Hub

Youth Justice and Power Union

Youth on Fire

YWCA Malden

YWCA of Lawrence

ZUMIX

Data Analysis Highlights

Below are highlights from the data analysis of LZF’s 30-year grantmaking activity.

Grantee Partner Outcomes

“Operating” refers to former grantee partners who were still active and operating as nonprofits as of July 2026. This data is based on an additional internal data analysis performed by LZF Staff, not by this report’s research team.

Total Funding per LZF Funding Area

Survey Quantitative Data Analysis Highlights (N=94)

Below are highlights of the quantitative data analysis of the LZF Grantee Survey for 30 Year Retrospective Study. The analysis includes descriptive data, participation in LZF opportunities and organizational impact.

Identifies as Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color CEO or Executive Director (N=90) Senior Leadership Team (N=89)

Yes

52%
84%
Top Grantmaking Opportunities

Challenge Match

87%
LZF was the first (or among the first) institutional funder

Yes

56%
LZF helped my organization become successful

Yes

93%
Top Capacity Building Opportunities
Seminars

95%

Annual Institute Learning Day

68%

Tranformational Leadership Cohort (TLC)

39%

Top Community Building Opportunities
Annual Awards Ceremony

84%

Annual Grantee Gathering

66%

Virtual Welcome Sessions

39%

The Lenny Zakim Fund Additional Grants

In addition to annual grant making, LZF has distributed funding for special programs, to celebrate milestones and to meet urgent needs in critical times.

1996 – 2004 (estimated)

Matching grants with funds sourced by LZF through referral of grantee partners to philanthropic partners. This has since evolved into LZF’s current “Challenge Match” program where LZF matches new and increased donations achieved by the grantee partner.

2006 – 2010

Young Leaders (2007 – 2010)

Summer Youth Programming (2008 – 2009)

Donor Advised Grants (2009 – 2010)

Summer Scholars Grant (2010)

Caturano Regrant (2010)

Summer Grants (2008 – 2018)

2011 – 2015

Young Leaders (2011 – 2013)

Donor Advised Grants (2011 – 2013)

Rashi School Regrant (2015)

Special Anniversary Grants (2015)

Summer Grants (2008 – 2018)

2016 – 2020

LGBTQ+ Grants (2016)

Temporary Protected Status and DACA Grants w/ Hyams Foundation (2016 – 2019)

COVID Emergency Grants (2020)

TLC Executive Coaching Program Grant (2020)

Summer Grants (2008 – 2018)

2021 – 2026

COVID Emergency Grants (2021 – 2022)

Catalytic Consulting (2024 – 2026)

Additional Special Grants

Hull Life Saving Museum Grant

MA Transgender Political Coalition

“The [Lenny Zakim] Fund was with us as we nearly tripled our impact and supported our leadership transition so our founder was able to retire in 2017. You helped us become a stronger, more self-sufficient organization…a steady source of guidance, fuel that also helped us gain credibility with new funders and donors.”

Acknowledgements

The Lenny Zakim Fund would like to express our deepest gratitude to the following for making our 30-Year Longitudinal Impact Study Report possible.

LZF Grantee & Community Partners

Asha Abdullahi (Somali Parents Advocacy Center for Education)

Miki Akimoto

Darcy Brownell

Mo Castillo

Jessica Castro

Clementina Chery (Louis D. Brown Peace Institute)

Gregg Croteau (UTEC)

Janice Ditchek

Ben Echevarria (The Welcome Project)

Toni Elka (Future Chefs)

Jude Goldman

Lisa Goldblatt Grace (My Life My Choice)

Pat Gray (The Food Project)

Josie Greene

Leigh Handschuh

Felicia Heywood

Olu Ibrahim (Kids in Tech)

Tanya Inwald

Mark Irvings

Suzi Kaitz

Caren Keller

Wyona Lynch-McWhite

Sandi McKinley

Tim Mackey

Lilly Marcelin (Resilient Sisterhood Project)

David Moy

Rory Neuner

Elaine Ng

Karla Nicholson

Natanja Craig Oquendo

Andrew Ott (CodeSquad)

Lisa Piscatelli (Attleboro Area Interfaith Collaborative)

Jamie Robinson (DEAFinitely)

Mercy Robinson (South Boston En Accion)

Glenn Rothman

Susan Rothman

Deborah Seidel

Laura Sherman

Tre’Andre Valentine (Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition)

Maureen Willis (English at Large)

Joyce Zakim

Prentice Zinn

LZF Staff

Allison Picott, Executive Director

Tiffany Lau, Deputy Director

Carla Beaudoin, Director of Development

Claire Molinich, Development and Communications Coordinator

Victoria Shepeluk, Grants and Program Coordinator

Researchers and Consultants

Julia Gittleman, Mendelsohn, Gittleman & Associates

Rae Negron, Strategy With Intention

Folake Oguntebi, Resilient Marketing

Designer

Joelle Riffle

Special thanks and recognition to the following for their generous support:

Anonymous

Key Findings

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