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Laquer 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.

$30k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$30k
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Laquer Foundation Inc’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
’17
4
’18
2
’19
0
’21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2021.

Health$350kPhilanthropy$283kYouth Development$258kReligion$205kCrime & Legal$110kCivil Rights$53kInternational$6kPublic Benefit$4kOther$0
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$77
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION$30,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTE: $50k → 11%RUITKA LASKIER FOUNDATION: $250 → 13%AIPAC: $4k → 13%GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION: $70k → 15%AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTE: $3k → 11%TEEN CHALLENGE: $3k → 13%GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION: $53k → 15%GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION: $30k → 15%BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS: $50k → 15%GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION: $5k → 15%BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS: $50k → 15%CARE RESOURCE: $100 → 15%WOMEN OF TOMORROW: $63k → 15%WOMEN OF TOMORROW: $63k → 15%LEGAL SERVICES OF GREATER MIAMI: $60k → 15%LEGAL SERVICES OF GREATER MIAMI: $50k → 15%LEGAL SERVICES OF GREATER MIAMI: $420 → 15%MT SINAI FOUDATION: $250k → 15%THE MIAMI FOUNDATION: $100k → 15%BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER: $100k → 15%TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM: $75k → 15%THE MIAMI FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER: $15k → 15%TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM: $75k → 15%UNITED WAY: $500 → 15%BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER: $15k → 15%TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM: $55k → 15%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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$723k · 6 repeat orgs$263k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2019, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$723k
$257k

Still filing today

50%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Youth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHealthInternationalOther
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

  • TB
    TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM
    3× · 2017–2019 · $205k
  • BB
    BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER
    3× · 2017–2019 · $130k
  • WO
    WOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $125k · revenue -4%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $250k
  • A
    AIPAC
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • TC
    TEEN CHALLENGE
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTEMPLE BETH SHOLOM: $204,730 · OtherTEMPLE BETH SHOLOMBIG BROTHER BIG SISTER: $130,000 · OtherBIG BROTHER BIG SISTERAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTE: $53,000 · OtherAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTE+5 more: $7,450 · OtherGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $157,500 · PhilanthropyGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDE…THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INCWOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC: $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentWOMEN OF TO…Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc: $110,000 · Crime & LegalLegal Ser…THE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC: $100,000 · HealthBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $6,000 · International
Other$645,180Philanthropy$282,500Youth Development$125,000Crime & Legal$110,000Health$100,000International$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $157,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC: $125,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetLegal Services of Greater Miami Inc: $110,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $6,000 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 GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗

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.

United Way Miami IncFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Miami Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · 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 Laquer Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Laquer Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 15 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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