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Lawrence and Ira Straus Charitable Tr

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$8k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2020
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,500
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$236k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$21kEducation$4kCivil Rights$4kInternational$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kHealth$100

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
WY
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Center for War-Peace Studies Inc$2,6002n/a
Aha Foundation Inc$1,50010%
Academic Freedom Alliance$1,00011%
Free Hearts Free Minds$1,00011%
National Progress Alliance$1,00010%
Caitlyn Jenner Foundation Inc$1001n/a
1day Sooner Inc$10010%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About Lawrence and Ira Straus Charitable Tr

How much does Lawrence and Ira Straus Charitable Tr give?
Lawrence and Ira Straus Charitable Tr reported 12 grants totaling $7,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Lawrence and Ira Straus Charitable Tr fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (65%), Education (12%), Civil Rights (11%).
Who are Lawrence and Ira Straus Charitable Tr's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Center for War-Peace Studies Inc ($3k), Aha Foundation Inc ($2k), Academic Freedom Alliance ($1k).
Does Lawrence and Ira Straus Charitable Tr 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 and Ira Straus Charitable Tr?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Lawrence and Ira Straus Charitable Tr based?
Lawrence and Ira Straus Charitable Tr is based in VA.

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 14 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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