· Private foundation
L4 Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $250k+1 grant · $420k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUND | $420,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $322k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 40 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HSHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT6× · 2017–2022 · $295k · revenue +37%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC6× · 2017–2022 · $103k · revenue +41%- HIHIAS INC3× · 2020–2022 · $56k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +81%
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -22%- NYNEW YORK COMMON PANTRYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue +103%
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.
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.
The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.
In recognition of the fundamental principles of the universal declaration of human rights, international bridges to justice (ibj) is dedicated to protecting the basic legal rights of ordinary citizens in developing countries. specifically,…
We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…
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.
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…
The mission of asian americans advancing justice-aajc (aajc) is to advance civil and human rights for asian americans and to build and promote a fair and equitable society for all.
To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…
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 aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…
Refugees international advocates for lifesaving assistance, human rights, and protection for displaced people and promotes solutions to displacement crisis.
How this is measured
54 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. 54 of the 96 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VISION URBANA INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER FREE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE IN AGING ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds SPREAD THE VOTE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Robin Hood Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · United Way of New York City · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Express Foundation · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization L4 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from L4 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc: 4% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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