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Lavori Sterling Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$68k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$982kArts & Culture$730kHealth$317kEnvironment$139kFood & Nutrition$46kHuman Services$44kCrime & Legal$21kCivil Rights$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $121k
$2,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE$67,500
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$53,599
WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE$41,667
KRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA$38,000
BATES COLLEGE$25,000
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$25,000
ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD$20,000
ST ANN'S SCHOOL$10,000
THIRTEENWNET$10,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI$10,000
STUDIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$9,600
SAFE GIRLS STRONG GIRLS$5,000
HOSPICE OF ORANGE & SULLIVAN$5,000
STEPHEN GAYNOR SCHOOL$5,000
CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$5,000
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PROJECT HOME: $1k → 22%HOSPICE OF ORANGE & SULLIVAN: $5k → 14%CAPE ABILITIES: $1k → 8%CAPE ABILITIES: $1k → 8%CAPE ABILITIES: $1k → 8%CAPE ABILITIES: $1k → 8%CAPE ABILITIES: $750 → 8%CAPE ABILITIES: $750 → 8%CAPE ABILITIES: $500 → 8%CAPE ABILITIES: $500 → 8%CAPE ABILITIES: $500 → 8%HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE: $3k → 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
WA
MN
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
VA
TN
SC
DC
GA
TX
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 54 repeat orgs$189k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
43

Total granted

$2.2M
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+17%

Still filing today

67%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsOther
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

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    9× · 2017–2025 · $513k · revenue +58%
  • BARD COLLEGE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $145k · revenue +256%
  • BM
    BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $133k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • SH
    SETON HALL UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +58%
  • MS
    MARSHALL-WYTHE SCHOOL OF LAW
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • CM
    COLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +19%
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 Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
2
The Pierpont Morgan Library

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.

Education
3
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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4
Museum of Modern Art

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)

Arts & Culture
5
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
6
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
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
New Museum of Contemporary Art

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.

Arts & Culture
10
New York University

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.

Education
11
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Sarah Lawrence College

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Garden Conservancy Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/66
Grantees still filing
37/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $342,984 · OtherBRYN MAWR COLLEGEKRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA: $180,500 · OtherKRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGAWEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $95,667 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICINEGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER SCHOLARS: $77,900 · OtherGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER SCHOLARSST ANN'S SCHOOL: $62,000 · OtherST ANN'S SCHOOL+60 more: $350,838 · Other+60 moreMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $513,465 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTTHE DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST: $67,500 · Arts & CultureTHE DECORATIVE ARTS TRUSTAmerican Museum of Natural History: $55,710 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural Histo…+15 more: $41,615 · Arts & Culture+15 moreBARD COLLEGE: $145,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGEBRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $132,500 · EducationBRYN MAWR COLLEGESYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $32,000 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSIT…PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationPRESIDENT AND TRUS…STEPHEN GAYNOR SCHOOL: $17,500 · EducationTHE CALHOUN SCHOOL INC: $15,000 · Education+5 more: $22,700 · Education+5 moreASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD INC: $119,500 · EnvironmentTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $9,175 · Environment+5 more: $10,125 · EnvironmentGLYNWOOD CENTER INC: $31,400 · Public BenefitCAPE ABILITIES INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF ORANGE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSPARROW MISSIONS INC: $3,600 · Human ServicesHEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOME: $1,000 · Human ServicesWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE: $15,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,109,889Arts & Culture$678,290Education$389,700Environment$138,800Public Benefit$31,400Human Services$19,600Youth Development$15,000

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 budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $513,465 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $145,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $132,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD INC: $119,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTHE DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST: $67,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $55,710 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $32,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGLYNWOOD CENTER INC: $31,400 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $19,764 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN GAYNOR SCHOOL: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALL SOULS SCHOOL: $15,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE: $15,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CALHOUN SCHOOL INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrevor Day School: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $9,175 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $7,850 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPalestine Museum US Corporation: $7,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCAPE ABILITIES INC: $7,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $5,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE CINEMA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetHudson Highlands Land Trust Inc: $4,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPARROW MISSIONS INC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC: $2,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNION OF NORTH AMERICAN VIETNAMESE STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOberlin College: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ROOSEVELT PARK INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGARRISON'S LANDING ASSOCIATION INC: $1,750 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD MUSIC INSTITUTE INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew York City Rescue Mission: $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE COD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACQUES MARCHAIS MUSEUM OF TIBETAN ART: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetA BETTER BALANCE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 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 WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds THE CALHOUN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Lostand FoundationThe D J McManus Found…Jewish Communal FundIbm International Fou…The New York Communit…Lostand Foundation IncThe Topfield Foundati…Cape Cod Foundation I…The Goldman Sachs Cha…FjcAmerican Express Foun…The Robert Wood Johns…
Lostand FoundationNY17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Lavori Sterling Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lavori Sterling Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 108 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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