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Laura M and Peter T Grauer Foundation at a glance

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Laura M and Peter T Grauer 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.

$3.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$16MHealth$7.3MHuman Services$3.6MScience & Tech$2.8MArts & Culture$2.5MEnvironment$715kYouth Development$685kAnimals$610kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $336k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.8M
$25,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$342k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALEXANDER TWILIGHT ACADEMY$600,000
INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC$514,200
FAMILY CENTERS INC$400,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA - CHAPEL HILL$250,000
NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM$225,000
POMFRET SCHOOL$200,000
MARION ART CENTER INC$175,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$150,000
WNET$100,000
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY$100,000
THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC$75,000
THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC$75,000
ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY FUND$75,000
NATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER$50,000
TARGET ALS FOUNDATION$50,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $379k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VOGEL ALCOVE: $15k → 14%THE SERENITY PROJECT: $10k → 9%VOGEL ALCOVE: $5k → 14%HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $20k → 11%HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $18k → 11%HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $10k → 11%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $200k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $50k → 17%AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $50k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $500 → 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

ME
MT
MN
MI
NY
MA
WY
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
AL
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$34M · 79 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

79 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
49

Total granted

$34M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+5%

Still filing today

77%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • PS
    PURNELL SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2021 · $2.2M · revenue +58%
  • RJ
    RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $2.1M · revenue +1%
  • PS
    POMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • SA
    ST AIDAN'S CHAPEL
    one grant, 2024 · $400k
  • SH
    SOUTHCOAST HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -20%
  • AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +4%
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
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
7
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
10
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Richard Hampton Jenrette 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

110 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 110 of the 136 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
107/110
Grantees still filing
74/110
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAMILY CENTERS INC: $3,385,000 · OtherFAMILY CENTERS INCINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $2,859,200 · OtherINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INCROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY FUND: $2,800,000 · OtherROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY FUNDTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA - CHAPEL HILL: $2,288,500 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA - CHAPEL HILLPURNELL SCHOOL: $2,200,000 · OtherPURNELL SCHOOLPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,975,000 · OtherPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATIONTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC: $760,000 · Other+52 more: $4,207,087 · Other+52 morePOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $2,050,000 · EducationPOMFRET SCHOOL INCO…NATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INC: $1,500,000 · EducationNATIONAL COLLEGE AD…ALEXANDER TWILIGHT ACADEMY INC: $1,150,000 · EducationALEXANDER TWILIGHT …JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $600,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVE…ROOM TO READ: $260,000 · Education+15 more: $661,500 · Education+15 moreRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION: $2,150,000 · HealthRICHARD J CAR…CARON OF FLORIDA INC: $1,633,000 · HealthCARON OF FLOR…SOUTHCOAST HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $250,000 · HealthSOUTHCOAST HE…+10 more: $310,000 · Health+10 moreTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $650,000 · Arts & CultureOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $495,000 · Arts & CultureWNET: $360,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER: $200,000 · Arts & CultureMarion Art Center Inc: $180,000 · Arts & CultureThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc: $110,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $312,000 · Arts & CulturePARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS: $725,000 · PhilanthropyTHE TRIANGLE FUND: $205,000 · PhilanthropyHAMPTON CLASSIC HORSE SHOW INC: $175,000 · PhilanthropyTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $75,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MARION INSTITUTE INC: $65,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $83,000 · PhilanthropyTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 · EnvironmentBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $160,000 · EnvironmentSIPPICAN LANDS TRUST INC: $100,000 · Environment+6 more: $45,250 · EnvironmentWildlife Conservation Society: $450,000 · AnimalsGimme Shelter Animal Rescue Inc: $95,000 · AnimalsPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $30,000 · Animals+3 more: $45,000 · Animals
Other$20,474,787Education$6,221,500Health$4,343,000Arts & Culture$2,307,000Philanthropy$1,328,000Environment$705,250Animals$620,000

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 budgetINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $2,859,200 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetPURNELL SCHOOL: $2,200,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION: $2,150,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $2,050,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetCARON OF FLORIDA INC: $1,633,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetNATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INC: $1,500,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetALEXANDER TWILIGHT ACADEMY INC: $1,150,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC: $760,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS: $725,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $650,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $600,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $495,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $450,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetHARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC: $400,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetWNET: $360,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $350,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $275,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetROOM TO READ: $260,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $250,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHCOAST HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCity Squash Inc: $215,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetTHE TRIANGLE FUND: $205,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetNATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMarion Art Center Inc: $180,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetHAMPTON CLASSIC HORSE SHOW INC: $175,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC: $170,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WESTMINSTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $165,000 over 8y, 31% of budgetBAKER INDUSTRIES INC: $165,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $160,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc: $110,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $105,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSIPPICAN LANDS TRUST INC: $100,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetGimme Shelter Animal Rescue Inc: $95,000 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetIYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $75,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARION INSTITUTE INC: $65,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE LORD'S PLACE INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEW BEDFORD STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: $57,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetEXODUS SCHOOL: $55,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTARGET ALS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSippican Historical Society: $50,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $50,000 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.

  • Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds PURNELL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds POMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds CARON OF FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INC ↗
  • Who funds ALEXANDER TWILIGHT ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Old Dartmouth Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
  • Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds WNET ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHCOAST HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
  • Who funds City Squash Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE TRIANGLE FUND ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Marion Art Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds HAMPTON CLASSIC HORSE SHOW INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
  • Who funds THE WESTMINSTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BAKER INDUSTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION 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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…The New York Communit…Community Foundation …The Croll FoundationThe Ludes Family Foun…Willow Creek Charitab…The Ayco Charitable F…The Bessemer Giving F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Fortunatus Founda…The Jtk FoundationThomas Rutherfoord Fo…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY24× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Croll Foundation · The Ludes Family Foundation · Willow Creek Charitable Foundation U/A/D 01/11/2002 · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Fortunatus Foundation · The Jtk Foundation · Thomas Rutherfoord 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 Laura M and Peter T Grauer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Laura M and Peter T Grauer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • The Lord's Place Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich: 7% of income from government
  • Center for Creative Education: 2% of income from government
  • Old Dartmouth Historical Society: 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Martin County: 2% of income from government
  • The Marion Institute Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Marion Art Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Armory Art Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.

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 136 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home