· Private foundation
Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k42 grants · $952k
- $50k–250k25 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $269k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DREW UNIVERSITY | $269,000 |
| ROUNDABOUT THEATRE CO | $235,000 |
| LINCOLN CENTER THEATRE | $165,000 |
| GEORGE ST PLAYHOUSE | $161,500 |
| MAYO PERFORMING ARTS CTR | $150,000 |
| JFK CTR FOR PERF ARTS | $150,000 |
| MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB | $135,000 |
| NJPAC | $130,000 |
| PAPER MILL PLAYHOUSE | $125,000 |
| FNDTN FOR MORRIST MED CTR | $115,000 |
| PALEY CENTER | $100,000 |
| JFS OF SOM HUNT&WARR COUNTIES | $100,000 |
| STATE THEATRE REG ARTS CTRNEW BRUNSW | $76,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAELI DEFFORCES | $75,000 |
| JOHN F KENNEDY LIBRARY FNDTN | $70,000 |
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, $550k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +20% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
125 repeat relationships — 71 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 21 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $344k 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
- RTROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +129%
- MTMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +43%
- DUDREW UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $903k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- STSTATE THEATRE REG ARTS CTR N Bone grant, 2020 · $257k
- RWROBERT WOOD JOHNSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALone grant, 2020 · $125k
- LCLINCON CTR THEATREone grant, 2020 · $115k
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.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
The apollo theater is a commissioner and presenter; catalyst for new artists, audiences, and creative workforce; and partner in the projection of the african american narrative and its role in the development of american and global…
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Philadelphia theatre company is a vital civic institution dedicated to the creation of extraordinary theatrical experiences that reflect the essential issues and ideas of our time, and which foster connection, understanding, and…
The perelman performing arts center creates connections by cultivating bonds between extraordinary artists and communities with exemplary performances in active dialogue across the arts in our flexible intimate spaces, inviting…
See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…
At Atlantic, our aim is singular: to empower simple and honest storytelling that fosters greater understanding of our shared world. Across our work, we are a family of artists dedicated to exploring essential truths onstage, be it a show…
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Morris Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Upcountry History Museum. 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 44 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
85 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. 85 of the 256 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds DREW UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Paper Mill Playhouse ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC FOR ALL SEASONS INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Primary Stages Company Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY THEATRE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
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: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Investors Foundation Inc · Columbia Bank Foundation · Ej Grassmann Trust · George a Ohl Jr Trust · The Provident Bank Foundation · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Shubert Foundation 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 Blanche & Irving Laurie 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.
- New Jersey Theatre Alliance Inc — 41% of income from government
- Music for All Seasons Inc — 41% of income from government
- Diabetes Foundation Inc — 31% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Garfield Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Discovery Orchestra Inc — 14% of income from government
- Adler Aphasia Center — 12% of income from government
- The Montclair Art Museum — 11% of income from government
- Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company — 11% of income from government
- Family Promise of Warren County Inc — 9% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Paper Mill Playhouse — 9% of income from government
- The Morris Museum Inc — 7% of income from government
- Youth Consultation Service Inc — 6% of income from government
- Orlando Science Centerinc — 4% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- Montclair Film Festival Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jespy House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Crossroads Inc — 2% of income from government
- Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc — 1% of income from government
- Drew University — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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.
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