New York · Private foundation
Lavori Sterling Foundation Inc
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.
- $347k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $67,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Lavori Sterling Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 32 | $347k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $329k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $336k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $338k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $234k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $226k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $176k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $173k | 29% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $513,465 | 9 | 0% |
| Bard College | $145,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Bryn Mawr College | $132,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Association to Preserve Cape Cod Inc | $119,500 | 4 | 1% |
| The Decorative Arts Trust | $67,500 | 7 | 1% |
| American Museum of Natural History | $55,710 | 6 | 0% |
| Syracuse University | $32,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Glynwood Center Inc | $31,400 | 6 | 0% |
| President and Trustees of Bates College | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Seton Hall University | $19,764 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 66 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lavori Sterling Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Lostand Foundation · The D J McManus Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Ibm International Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Lostand Foundation Inc · The Topfield Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Fjc · American Express Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
How this is measured
About Lavori Sterling Foundation Inc
- How much does Lavori Sterling Foundation Inc give?
- Lavori Sterling Foundation Inc reported 32 grants totaling $346,581 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lavori Sterling Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Arts & Culture (31%), Health (13%).
- Who are Lavori Sterling Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Metropolitan Museum of Art ($513k), Bard College ($145k), Bryn Mawr College ($133k).
- Does Lavori Sterling Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lavori Sterling Foundation Inc 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 Lavori Sterling Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lostand Foundation, The D J McManus Foundation Inc, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is Lavori Sterling Foundation Inc based?
- Lavori Sterling Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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