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Lafer Family 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.

$81k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

International$133kEducation$70kHealth$37kEnvironment$19kEmployment$12kCivil Rights$10kReligion$8kFood & Nutrition$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $52k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$670k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY$22,460
HEBREW UNIVERSITY$10,000
CROHNS & COLITIS FOUNDATION$10,000
KOACH LA'OVDIMS WORKERS EDUCATION ASSOC$10,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF AMERICA$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$5,000
PEOPLE'S HEALTH CLINIC$5,000
PALESTINE ENDOWMENT FUND$5,000
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY$5,000
PARK CITY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION$2,500
CITI FOUNDATION$1,200
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.

US giving: 90% of grant dollars ($302k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 10% that went abroad ($34k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $20k → 16%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF AMERICA: $5k → 7%MIND ONE MIND: $4k → 9%TREVOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%WOMEN FOR WOMEN: $1k → 7%NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $4k → 17%TIVERTON LAND TRUST: $3k → 14%PRO CHOICE MISSOURI: $5k → 21%OREGON HILLEL: $8k → 15%TOWN THAT CARES: $3k → 11%TIVERTON LAND TRUST: $4k → 7%PEOPLE'S HEALTH CLINIC: $5k → 5%CDC FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%TENAFLY NATURE CENTER: $500 → 7%HIAS: $1k → 8%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%BROTHERS AND SISTERS FOR ISRAEL: $4k → 7%THE TREVOR PROJECT INC: $1k → 14%NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $3k → 17%THE STUDIO THEATRE INC: $1k → 14%PARK CITY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION: $3k → 5%HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $12k → 17%STUDIO THEATRE: $1k → 14%PARK CITY COMMUNITY: $1k → 5%MENINO BOOM: $7k → 16%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $7k → 17%N STREET VILLAGE: $1k → 14%MENINO BOOM: $5k → 16%KOACH LA'OVDIMS WORKERS EDUCATION ASSOC: $10k → 17%DC CENTRAL KITCHEN: $2k → 14%SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE: $15k → 17%WASHINTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $34k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $3k → 17%WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $22k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $1k → 17%WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $20k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $5k → 17%WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $5k → 17%WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $4k → 17%MARTHA'S TABLE: $3k → 14%CROHNS & COLITIS FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%MARTHA'S TABLE: $2k → 14%CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS: $10k → 17%PALESTINE ENDOWMENT FUND: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
MO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
GA

Beyond the US: 10% of all-years giving ($34k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Israel$34k · 4 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$185k · 11 repeat orgs$133k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
20

Total granted

$185k
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
-6%

Still filing today

64%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEnvironmentHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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

  • WI
    WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY
    3× · 2018–2024 · $76k · revenue +39%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $6k · revenue +37%
  • MT
    MARTHA'S TABLE INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $5k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -28%
  • TC
    THE CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS OF MAJOR AMERICAN JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -6%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
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
Guttmacher Institute Inc

The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.

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2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
4
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
5
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
6
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
7
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
8
The Population Council Inc

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…

International
9
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
10
Rights and Resources Institute Inc

Rri's mission is to support local communities and indigenous peoples' struggles against poverty and marginalization by promoting greater global commitment and action towards policy, market, and legal reforms that secure their rights to…

Environment
11
Institute for Eastwest Studies Inc

Eastwest institute (ewi) works to reduce international conflict, addressing seemingly intractable problems that threaten world security and stability. (continued on schedule o)

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12
Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Citi Foundation. 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

26 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. 26 of the 41 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
13/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITYLAFER CENTER FOR GENDER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES AT HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · OtherLAFER CENTER FOR GENDER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES AT HEBREW UNI…PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $14,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODIndividual grant recipient: $12,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHEBREW UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherHEBREW UNIVERSITYKOACH LA'OVDIMS WORKERS EDUCATION ASSOC: $10,000 · OtherKOACH LA'OVDIMS WORKERS EDUCATION ASSOCTHE CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS OF MAJOR AMERICAN JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS FUND: $10,000 · OtherTHE CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS OF MAJOR AMERICAN JEWISH ORG…Individual grant recipient: $7,500 · Other+15 more: $46,560 · Other+15 moreWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $76,460 · InternationalWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLI…NEW ISRAEL FUND: $19,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUNDTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $15,000 · InternationalTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH A…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $4,000 · International+2 more: $3,500 · InternationalCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthPeople's Health Clicnic: $5,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $3,835 · HealthNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $6,335 · EnvironmentTiverton Land Trust: $4,000 · EnvironmentTENAFLY NATURE CENTER ASSOCIATION: $500 · EnvironmentMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $4,900 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $2,500 · Food & NutritionPARK CITY PERFORMING ARTS: $2,500 · Arts & CultureThe Studio Theatre Inc: $2,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $5,000 · Animals
Other$170,060International$117,960Health$18,835Environment$10,835Food & Nutrition$7,400Arts & Culture$6,000Animals$5,000

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 budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $76,460 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS OF MAJOR AMERICAN JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $6,335 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOGETHER RISING: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAbortion Action Missouri: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeople's Health Clicnic: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $4,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTiverton Land Trust: $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $3,835 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARK CITY PERFORMING ARTS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Studio Theatre Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITI FOUNDATION: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetN STREET VILLAGE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTENAFLY NATURE CENTER ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA8.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Lafer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lafer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: 21% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Lafer Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lafer Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 41 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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