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Denise Lefrak Foundation

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.

$218k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$1.1MHealth$382kArts & Culture$131kPhilanthropy$67kRecreation & Sports$60kReligion$35kInternational$27kHuman Services$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $156k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC$50,000
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$25,550
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$25,000
RACE TO ERASE MS$25,000
RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION$25,000
NYU LANGONE HEALTH$25,000
HARVARD UNIVERSTY$20,000
CONGREGATION OF EMANU-EL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK$10,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC$6,000
PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION$4,000
TOWN OF PALM BEACH UNITED WAY$2,000
ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION OF BARNARD COLLEGE$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HARVARD UNIVERSTY: $20k → 8%CARON TREATMENT SERVICES: $25k → 11%RACE TO ERASE MS: $25k → 14%THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM: $36k → 7%NYU LANGONE HEALTH: $50k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $6k → 11%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $32k → 14%HARVARD UNIVERSTY: $20k → 8%RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM: $15k → 7%NYU LANGONE HEALTH: $25k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $6k → 11%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $18k → 14%HARVARD UNIVERSTY: $20k → 8%THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM: $14k → 7%CARON FOUNDATION: $45k → 17%CARON FOUNDATION: $13k → 17%BARNARD COLLEGE: $337k → 17%BARNARD COLLEGE: $110k → 17%BARNARD COLLEGE: $90k → 17%BARNARD COLLEGE: $51k → 17%BARNARD COLLEGE: $14k → 17%BARNARD COLLEGE: $92k → 17%BARNARD COLLEGE: $84k → 17%BARNARD COLLEGE: $54k → 17%NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 17%BARNARD COLLEGE: $49k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $25k → 17%BARNARD COLLEGE: $48k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $25k → 17%BARNARD COLLEGE: $25k → 17%CONGREGATION EMANU-EL: $20k → 17%BARNARD COLLEGE: $23k → 17%CONGREGATION OF EMANU-EL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $10k → 17%BARNARD COLLEGE: $20k → 17%THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $7k → 17%MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $7k → 17%THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $7k → 17%BARNARD COLLEGE: $6k → 17%FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $25k → 17%SOLOMON GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM: $20k → 17%THE NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $25k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL MUSEUM: $10k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL MUSEUM: $5k → 17%BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $26k → 17%BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $11k → 17%BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 17 repeat orgs$266k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
24

Total granted

$1.5M
$155k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+20%

Still filing today

65%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationInternationalRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • BARNARD COLLEGE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +32%
  • THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $72k · revenue +29%
  • TP
    THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $65k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • CT
    CARON TREATMENT SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +8%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -33%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
New York University

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.

Education
4
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
5
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
6
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
7
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Biographers International Organization. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyMedical Research & Disease …Jewish Diaspora Support Org…Professional Networking Org…Basic Needs & Recovery Supp…Animal Rescue and AdoptionPerforming Arts PresentationYouth Education and Develop…Catholic Health Systems
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 59 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr14%0%5–10yr22%7%10–20yr20%13%20–35yr12%23%35–55yr12%55%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%2%<5yr14%0%5–10yr22%0%10–20yr20%10%20–35yr12%4%35–55yr12%84%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
12%
4,318/36,586

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.

04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
24/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BARNARD COLLEGE — $1,004,567 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGE+3 more — $17,500 · EducationNYU LANGONE HEALTH — $75,000 · OtherNYU LANGONE HEALTHHARVARD UNIVERSTY — $60,000 · OtherHARVARD UNIVERSTYCARON FOUNDATION — $57,500 · OtherCARON FOUNDATIONMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $50,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING C…RACE TO ERASE MS — $25,000 · OtherRACE TO ERASE MSCARON TREATMENT SERVICES — $25,000 · OtherCARON TREATMENT SERVICESCONGREGATION EMANUEL — $25,000 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANUELSOLOMON GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM — $20,000 · Other+17 more — $79,750 · Other+17 moreNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · HealthRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $25,000 · HealthPULMONARY WELLNESS FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Health+2 more — $3,000 · HealthTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC — $64,500 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art — $20,700 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM — $15,250 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $5,500 · Arts & CultureTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $71,550 · Public Safety & DisasterNorthwestern University — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $25,000 · InternationalTHE ELIE WIESEL FOUNDATION INC — $1,800 · International
Education$1,022,067Other$417,250Health$108,000Arts & Culture$105,950Public Safety & Disaster$71,550Recreation & Sports$55,000International$26,800

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBARNARD COLLEGE — $1,004,567 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $71,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC — $64,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNorthwestern University — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRACE TO ERASE MS — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $20,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM — $15,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEWITT SCHOOL — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPULMONARY WELLNESS FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetIndiana State University Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBONE HEALTH AND OSTEOPOROSIS FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELIE WIESEL FOUNDATION INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBiographers International Organization — $1,250 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS CITIZENS FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Morgan Stanley Global…Renaissance Charitabl…The Bank of America C…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY13.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Denise Lefrak 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Denise Lefrak Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Denise Lefrak Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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