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Judy and Mark Lerner Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Judy and Mark Lerner Family Foundation Inc

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.

$48k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$105kArts & Culture$49kHealth$39kEducation$26kRecreation & Sports$25kMembership Benefit$18kReligion$16kHousing & Shelter$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$108k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
READING IS FUNDAMENTAL$20,000
FUTURE FOR UKRAINE FOUNDATION$10,000
CAPITAL JEWISH MUSEUM$6,800
SEED OF PEACE$3,600
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$3,600
OLNEY BALLET THEATER$1,000
WETA$500
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$500
NO KID HUNGRY BY SHARE OUR STRENGTH$500
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY - HILLEL$500
CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK$360
BREAD FOR THE CITY$250
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $200 → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
GA
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of Judy and Mark Lerner Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 30% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 27%.

Judy and Mark Lerner Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 22% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$201k · 29 repeat orgs$109k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
23

Total granted

$201k
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+38%

Still filing today

83%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureInternationalFood & NutritionPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • SA
    SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $52k · revenue +146%
  • RI
    READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +87%
  • JF
    JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    3× · 2018–2021 · $17k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • HI
    HELLENIC INITIATIVE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -14%
  • WN
    WASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -13%
  • GO
    GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE MEMORIAL PARK INC
    one grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue +61%
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
3
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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4
International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education
5
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
6
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
7
Jewelers of America Inc

Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.

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8
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
9
International Life Sciences Institute

Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…

Science & Tech
10
The Jewish Women's Archive Inc

The jewish women's archive documents jewish women's stories, elevates their voices, and inspires them to be agents of change.jwa is dedicated to expanding and transforming the historical narrative by restoring jewish women and gender…

Arts & Culture
11
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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12
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc; the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 56 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
35/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $52,000 · OtherSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INCGEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY - HILLEL: $10,680 · OtherGEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY - HILLELFUTURE FOR UKRAINE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherFUTURE FOR UKRAINE FOUNDATIONTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $11,800 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INCJEWISH ASSOCIATION FOR RESIDENTIAL CARE INC: $10,400 · OtherJEWISH ASSOCIATION FOR RESIDENTIAL CARE INCCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $4,540 · OtherCANTOR'S ASSEMBLY: $5,177 · Other+27 more: $28,895 · Other+27 moreHELLENIC INITIATIVE INC: $25,000 · InternationalHELLENIC INITIA…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $13,600 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIEND…SEEDS OF PEACE INC: $4,140 · InternationalSEEDS OF PEACE …+1 more: $700 · InternationalLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $23,300 · Arts & CultureLillian and Alb…JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $17,190 · Arts & CultureJOHN F KENNEDY …+4 more: $2,890 · Arts & Culture+4 moreSPECIAL LOVE INC: $15,750 · HealthSPECIAL LOV…THE V FOUNDATION: $13,020 · HealthTHE V FOUND…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $1,800 · HealthCROHN'S & C…FOOD & FRIENDS INC: $1,500 · Health+3 more: $1,360 · HealthWASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $20,210 · EducationKAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $1,250 · EducationGARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE MEMORIAL PARK INC: $18,000 · Membership Benefit
Other$133,492International$43,440Arts & Culture$43,380Health$33,430Youth Development$25,000Education$24,460Membership Benefit$18,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $52,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHELLENIC INITIATIVE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $23,300 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $20,210 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $17,190 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL LOVE INC: $15,750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $13,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $13,020 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $11,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH ASSOCIATION FOR RESIDENTIAL CARE INC: $10,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANTOR'S ASSEMBLY: $5,177 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $4,540 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $4,140 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $3,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $2,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD & FRIENDS INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOME INC: $1,370 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTAND UP TO CANCER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOW RIBBON FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON BALLET: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $540 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FLORENCE MELTON ADULT MINI-SCHOOL CORPORATION: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOSEPH ROBERT SHAW FOUNDATION INC: $180 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUNFLOWER BAKERY INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $90 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.

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.

The Morris and Gwendo…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Judy and Mark Lerner Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Judy and Mark Lerner Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Jewish Association for Residential Care Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Judy and Mark Lerner Family Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 56 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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