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Elmar Fund Attn Laurence Lerner at a glance

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Elmar Fund Attn Laurence Lerner

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$146k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$42k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$594kReligion$547kCivil Rights$126kEducation$114kScience & Tech$113kPhilanthropy$76kFood & Nutrition$37kHealth$27kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $104k
$7,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND$1,500
NEW YORK CITY CENTER$1,500
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$1,000
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MAHATTAN$750
NYU STERN SCHOOL OF$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BRYN MAWR COLLEGE SLADE SOCIETY: $23k → 10%PROJECT KESHER: $29k → 9%HORACE MANN SCHOOL: $12k → 28%BRYN MAWR COLLEGE SLADE SOCIETY: $23k → 10%PROJECT KESHER: $28k → 9%BRYN MAWR COLLEGE SLADE SOCIETY: $23k → 10%PROJECT KESHER: $16k → 9%BRYN MAWR COLLEGE SLADE SOCIETY: $15k → 10%PROJECT KESHER: $16k → 9%BRYN MAWR COLLEGE SLADE SOCIETY: $10k → 10%PROJECT KESHER: $15k → 9%NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: $25k → 17%BRYN MAWR COLLEGE SLADE SOCIETY: $10k → 10%PROJECT KESHER: $11k → 9%PRIMARY STAGES: $60k → 17%BRYN MAWR COLLEGE SLADE SOCIETY: $10k → 10%PRIMARY STAGES: $50k → 17%PRIMARY STAGES: $50k → 17%PRIMARY STAGES: $35k → 17%PRIMARY STAGES: $30k → 17%PRIMARY STAGES: $21k → 17%PRIMARY STAGES: $21k → 17%PRIMARY STAGES: $15k → 17%IMENTOR: $10k → 17%NEW YORK CITY BALLET: $25k → 17%SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET: $20k → 17%SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET: $20k → 17%SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET: $20k → 17%SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET: $20k → 17%NEW YORK CITY BALLET: $20k → 17%NEW YORK CITY BALLET: $15k → 17%NEW YORK CITY BALLET: $15k → 17%NEW YORK CITY BALLET: $15k → 17%NEW YORK CITY BALLET: $15k → 17%NEW YORK CITY BALLET: $15k → 17%PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE: $15k → 17%CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM: $81k → 17%CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM: $65k → 17%CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM: $58k → 17%CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM: $56k → 17%CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM: $47k → 17%CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM: $46k → 17%CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM: $45k → 17%CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM: $42k → 17%CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM: $41k → 17%UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY: $25k → 17%NY TIMES NEEDIEST CASES FUND: $14k → 17%NY TIMES NEEDIEST CASES FUND: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 31 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
15

Total granted

$1.6M
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+76%

Still filing today

81%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PK
    Project Kesher
    9× · 2017–2025 · $126k · revenue +181%
  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +21%
  • SO
    SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $80k · revenue +133%

Funded once

  • TN
    The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundationsgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +76%
  • MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +121%
  • II
    IMENTOR INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +21%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Museum of the City of New York

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…

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Manhattan School of Music

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…

Arts & Culture
4
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
5
San Francisco Opera Association

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.

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

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…

Religion
8
Marymount Manhattan College

Marymount manhattan college is an urban, independent, liberal arts college (see schedule o).

Education
9
New York Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
10
New York Shakespeare Festival

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

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…

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan; 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.
04the grantee network

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 46 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
28/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM: $480,800 · OtherCONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOMProject Kesher: $126,250 · OtherProject KesherBRYN MAWR COLLEGE SLADE SOCIETY: $112,500 · OtherBRYN MAWR COLLEGE SLADE SOCIETYPARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INC: $63,700 · OtherPARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INC+17 more: $91,060 · Other+17 morePrimary Stages Company Inc: $281,700 · Arts & CulturePrimary Stages Company IncNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $120,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INCSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $80,000 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INCMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $32,500 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC+7 more: $48,252 · Arts & Culture+7 moreHorace Mann School: $65,500 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $25,000 · EducationBRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $15,000 · EducationNew York University: $4,500 · Education+3 more: $3,000 · EducationTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND: $75,500 · PhilanthropyCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $13,000 · Food & NutritionNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $13,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $11,000 · Food & NutritionTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $13,500 · Membership BenefitCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $6,600 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern University: $6,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$874,310Arts & Culture$562,452Education$113,000Philanthropy$75,500Food & Nutrition$37,000Membership Benefit$13,500Recreation & Sports$12,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPrimary Stages Company Inc: $281,700 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetProject Kesher: $126,250 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $120,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND: $75,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHorace Mann School: $65,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $32,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY: $26,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $15,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $13,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $13,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $13,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $10,560 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $10,002 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetIMENTOR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $6,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPHTHALMICEDGE INC: $6,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetNorthwestern University: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHADASSAH MEDICAL RELIEF ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PINS FOR PAULY FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetTHE DILLER-QUAILE SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP ENTERPRISE FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVOICES OF ASCENSION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends and Foundation of the San Francisco Public Library: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundSelect Equity Group F…The Hyde and Watson F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY18.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Elmar Fund Attn Laurence Lerner funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elmar Fund Attn Laurence Lerner. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
15report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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