· Private foundation
Alfred Lee and Peter Mayer 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $6,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| WNYC NY PUBLIC RADIO | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| ACLU | $5,000 |
| CITY MEALS ON WHEELS | $4,056 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| HUDSON VALLEY HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| IMMIGRANT DEFENDER LAW SYSTEM | $3,000 |
| BARD COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT OFFICE | $3,000 |
| COALITION FOR RESPONSIBLE HOMESCHOOLED CHILDREN (CRHE) | $2,500 |
| SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE AND THE PUBLIC | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 10 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CACLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $27k · revenue +59%
- TMTHE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC5× · 2018–2023 · $18k · revenue +97%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE3× · 2022–2025 · $17k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- NYNEW YORK TIMES'S NEEDIEST CASES FUNDone grant, 2021 · $10k
- TTTADS TUITION AID TADone grant, 2024 · $6k
- JIJERSUALEM INTERNATIONAL BOOKS FAIRone grant, 2019 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
How this is measured
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA MADDALENA FOUNDATION INC CO BARBARA SPENCE ↗
- Who funds THE AMYLOIDOSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds Lake Winnipesaukee Association ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Hudson Valley Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DOROT INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT SCHOOLS INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Alfred Lee and Peter Mayer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alfred Lee and Peter Mayer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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