· Private foundation
Elmar Fund Attn Laurence Lerner
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of ELMAR FUND ATTN LAURENCE LERNER’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $104k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM | $42,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY BALLET | $25,000 |
| PRIMARY STAGES | $20,835 |
| PROJECT KESHER | $16,000 |
| HORACE MANN SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE | $8,000 |
| BRYN MAWR COLLEGE | $7,500 |
| NYU SCHOOL OF LAW | $7,000 |
| OPHTHALMIC EDGE | $4,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $2,700 |
| NEW YORK CITY CENTER | $1,500 |
| ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND | $1,500 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MAHATTAN | $750 |
| NYU STERN SCHOOL OF | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of your 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.
31 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PKProject Kesher9× · 2017–2025 · $126k · revenue +181%
- NYNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC7× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +21%
- SOSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC4× · 2017–2020 · $80k · revenue +133%
Funded once
- TNThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundationsgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +76%
MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +227%- IIIMENTOR INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +21%
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 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…
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."
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…
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…
Marymount manhattan college is an urban, independent, liberal arts college (see schedule o).
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.
As the nation's foremost producer of shakespeare and new work, the public theater is dedicated to achieving artistic excellence while developing an american theater that is accessible and relevant to all people through productions of…
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan and the most unlike its peers is The Pins for Pauly Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 46 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 Primary Stages Company Inc ↗
- Who funds Project Kesher ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND ↗
- Who funds Horace Mann School ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds IMENTOR INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds OPHTHALMICEDGE INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds ALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds HADASSAH MEDICAL RELIEF ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PINS FOR PAULY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DILLER-QUAILE SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP ENTERPRISE FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA ↗
- Who funds VOICES OF ASCENSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
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 · Select Equity Group Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Elmar Fund Attn Laurence Lerner 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.
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% 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.