· 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.
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 $10k22 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $121k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRYN MAWR COLLEGE | $67,500 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $53,599 |
| WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE | $41,667 |
| KRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA | $38,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $25,000 |
| BATES COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD | $20,000 |
| ST ANN'S SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $10,000 |
| THIRTEENWNET | $10,000 |
| STUDIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $9,600 |
| STEPHEN GAYNOR SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE OF ORANGE & SULLIVAN | $5,000 |
| SAFE GIRLS STRONG GIRLS | $5,000 |
| CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +36% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 9 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART9× · 2017–2025 · $513k · revenue +58%
BARD COLLEGE6× · 2017–2022 · $145k · revenue +256%- BMBRYN MAWR COLLEGE2× · 2024–2025 · $133k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- SHSETON HALL UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +58%
- MSMARSHALL-WYTHE SCHOOL OF LAWone grant, 2020 · $15k
- CMCOLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +19%
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.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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…
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Garden Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boscobel Restoration Inc. 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 49 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 108 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 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds THE DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GLYNWOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SETON HALL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN GAYNOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALL SOULS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE CALHOUN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE ↗
- Who funds Trevor Day School ↗
- Who funds FJC ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Palestine Museum US Corporation ↗
- Who funds CAPE ABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
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: 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
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 Lavori Sterling Foundation Inc 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.
- Association to Preserve Cape Cod Inc — 100% of income from government
- Cape Abilities Inc — 81% of income from government
- The Cape Cod Museum of Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Seton Hall University — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 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.