· Private foundation
Lasko Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $478k
- $50k–250k32 grants · $3.1M
- $250k+5 grants · $6.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEVS HUMAN SERVICES | $2,600,000 |
| AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY | $2,500,000 |
| COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $500,000 |
| GOOD FELLOWSHIP CLUB OF CHESTER | $281,599 |
| HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY OF GREATER | $250,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY | $200,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC | $200,000 |
| 18 DOORS | $178,000 |
| JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE | $175,000 |
| MOVING TRADITIONS | $150,000 |
| 18 DOORS | $150,000 |
| PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| HADAR INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| US FRIENDS OF DROR ISRAEL | $100,000 |
| INTERFAITH CENTER OF GREATER | $100,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
81 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $642k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CVCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE7× · 2017–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +120%
- JHJEVS HUMAN SERVICES6× · 2017–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +68%
THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC7× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +132%
Funded once
- CCCHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue -21%
- PHPOLITZ HEBREW ACADEMY OF NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $196k · revenue +39%
- ASAMERICAN SOCIETY OF TECHNIONone grant, 2021 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Philly Hillel Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ezra Uganda Assistance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
80 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 80 of the 150 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds JEVS HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITHFAMILYCOM INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Makom Community ↗
- Who funds JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OFANIM INC ↗
- Who funds MOVING TRADITIONS ↗
- Who funds GREATER PHILLY HILLEL NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ORR SHALOM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC ↗
- Who funds US FRIENDS OF DROR ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds POLITZ HEBREW ACADEMY OF NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · Chester County Community Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Katz Family Charitable Trust · The Saramar Charitable Fund · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The Philadelphia Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Connelly Foundation · Mindy and Thaddeus Fortin Family Foundation · The Specter Foundation · Covenant Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Lasko Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Joseph's House of Camden Llc — 32% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Albert Einstein Academy — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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