· Private foundation
Cathy and Christopher Lawrence Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY | $34,678 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATES OF THE NATIONAL THEATRE | $20,031 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $12,873 |
| PLAYWRIGHT HORIZONS | $4,865 |
| THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE | $2,750 |
| CONGREGATION EMANUEL | $1,800 |
| COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $1,628 |
| HISTORIC ROYAL PALACES INC | $1,000 |
| THE CHAPIN SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| PECONIC LAND TRUST | $200 |
| THE SOUTHAMPTON ASSOCIATION | $150 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $100 |
| THE SOUTHAMPTON GARDEN CLUB | $100 |
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 (FY17–24, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +58% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $283k · revenue +65%
- NLNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS4× · 2020–2023 · $102k · revenue +43%
COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $87k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- PHPLAYWRIGHT HORIZONSone grant, 2017 · $40k
- JBJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INCone grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +5%
- TETEMPLE EMANU-ELone grant, 2023 · $7k
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 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 institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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…
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 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…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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 founding mission of the new-york historical society ("the new york historical "tnyh") is to collect, preserve, and interpret, for the broadest possible public, material relevant to the history of the united states in general and of 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 long island museum is dedicated to inspiring people of all ages with an understanding and enjoyment of american art, history and carriages as expressed through the heritage of long island and its diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Playwrights Horizons Inc and the most unlike its peers is Southampton Rose Society. 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 45 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 77 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
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 THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CARL SCHURZ PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALEXANDER HAMILTON SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DRAWING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME ↗
- Who funds PECONIC BAYKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON GARDEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWORK HELPERS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHAMPTON ROSE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC ↗
- Who funds FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC ROYAL PALACES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SAGE INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Audrey and Martin Gruss Foundation · The Meryl & Charles Witmer Charitable Foundation · The Fanwood Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Cathy and Christopher Lawrence Charitable Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.