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Laura Lemle Family 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.

$303k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
27%
First-time grantees FY2023
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63% of Laura Lemle Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Laura Lemle Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $303k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

10
’18
9
’19
12
’20
8
’21
9
’22
10
’23
9
’24
8
’25

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

Median grant, FY2024
$2,148
Largest grant, FY2024
$230,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 13
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$7.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Laura Lemle Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving10$278k20%
FY202311$230k27%
FY20229$234k0%
FY20219$136k11%
FY202013$143k46%
FY201912$158k67%
FY201811$59kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$1.4MPhilanthropy$845kEducation$504kArts & Culture$49kRecreation & Sports$5kCivil Rights$4kHousing & Shelter$4kHuman Services$508Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
IN
PA
CT
MO
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 26 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($3k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Laura Lemle Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Nvld Project Inc: $1,398,133 over 7y, 62% of budgetYeshiva University: $186,301 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLong Island Children's Museum: $35,026 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetThe Winston Preparatory School: $24,982 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jewish Museum: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBarnard College: $6,129 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Brain Foundation: $5,530 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEast Side House Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetManhattan Theatre Club Inc: $4,290 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens Committee for Children of New York Inc: $4,172 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEthical Culture Fieldston School: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House: $3,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jed Foundation: $1,033 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBroadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Justice Network Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPen American Center Inc: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAssociation on Aging in New York: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPoint Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBuildon Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEpic Players Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY11× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · 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.

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How do I get to Laura Lemle Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Laura Lemle 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.

About Laura Lemle Family Foundation

How much does Laura Lemle Family Foundation give?
Laura Lemle Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $302,852 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Laura Lemle Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (50%), Philanthropy (30%), Education (18%).
Who are Laura Lemle Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Nvld Project Inc ($1.4M), Yeshiva University ($186k), Long Island Children's Museum ($35k).
Does Laura Lemle Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Laura Lemle Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Laura Lemle Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Laura Lemle Family Foundation based?
Laura Lemle Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 35 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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