How much does Lawrence & Alice Valenstein Family Fund Inc give?

Lawrence & Alice Valenstein Family Fund Inc reported 21 grants totaling $30,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Lawrence & Alice Valenstein Family Fund Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (34%), Civil Rights (11%), Education (8%).

Who are Lawrence & Alice Valenstein Family Fund Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Earthjustice ($52k), Natural Resources Defense Council Inc ($35k), Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($26k).

Does Lawrence & Alice Valenstein Family Fund Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Lawrence & Alice Valenstein Family Fund 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 Lawrence & Alice Valenstein Family Fund Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, The Brooks Foundation, Austin Community Foundation Inc.

Where is Lawrence & Alice Valenstein Family Fund Inc based?

Lawrence & Alice Valenstein Family Fund Inc is based in NY.

Lawrence & Alice Valenstein Family Fund Inc

Lawrence & Alice Valenstein Family Fund Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Lawrence & Alice Valenstein Family Fund 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.

$30k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$3k

Largest

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.

Environment$144kCivil Rights$47kEducation$32kHealth$28kAnimals$28kArts & Culture$26kHuman Services$24kFood & Nutrition$21kOther$0

02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500

Median grant

States reached

$206k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE	$3,000
THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD	$2,500
JUDICIAL WATCH	$2,500
FRIENDS OF THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION	$2,500
HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION	$2,500
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION	$2,000
CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK	$2,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION	$1,500
AUSTIN PETS ALIVE	$1,500
AUSTIN ANIMAL CENTER	$1,500
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT	$1,500
STARK MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION	$1,200
FRIENDS OF PATHWAYS	$1,000
TETON COUNTRY LIBRARY FOUNDATION	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$393k · 39 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$393k

$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%

+31%

Still filing today

72%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationHealthCrime & LegalAnimalsOther

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

EARTHJUSTICE
6× · 2017–2023 · $52k · revenue +82%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
6× · 2017–2023 · $35k · revenue +41%
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
6× · 2017–2023 · $26k · revenue +202%

Funded once

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THE ACLU OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
one grant, 2022 · $6k
LB
LAURA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR AMERICA'S LIBRARIES
one grant, 2017 · $3k
B
BREAKTHROUGHgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +159%

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.

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

The Trust for Public Land

The trust for public land creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. in the past year, we helped communities to plan for parks and conservation, fund parks and conservation,…

Environment

The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment

Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter

Teton Regional Land Trust Inc

The mission of the teton regional land trust is to conserve working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in eastern idaho for this and future generations.

Environment

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture

Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas

Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation (TPWF) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization thatadvances Texas proud outdoor traditions through meaningful, high-impact programs,partnerships, and a wide range of projects that conserve and enhance our…

Environment

Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc

To guarantee all americans quality places to hunt and fish.

Animals

Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

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Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is The J Paul Getty Trust. 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

45 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. 45 of the 62 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

43/45

Grantees still filing

35/45

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Environment$143,860Other$174,550Health$28,180Civil Rights$22,000Arts & Culture$21,200Philanthropy$20,750Food & Nutrition$18,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

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.

Community Foundation of Jackson HoleWY21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · The Brooks Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Ac and Penney Hubbard Foundation Inc · Hughes Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust

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 Lawrence & Alice Valenstein Family Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lawrence & Alice Valenstein Family Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely 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.

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