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Lawrence & Susan Daniels Family Fdtn at a glance

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Lawrence & Susan Daniels Family Fdtn

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$60k
Granted FY2020
15
Grants FY2020
5
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

95% of Lawrence & Susan Daniels Family Fdtn’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 31 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Lawrence & Susan Daniels Family Fdtn named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $60k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’20
1
’21
31
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Philanthropy$1.2MArts & Culture$41kInternational$25kFood & Nutrition$17kHousing & Shelter$10kHuman Services$10kEducation$6kRecreation & Sports$4kOther$0
02FY2020 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k14 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $33k
$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NMOH (NAT'L MEDAL OF HONOR) MUSEUM$33,000
WEST SIDE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER$5,000
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS$4,000
NEW YORK TIMES NEEDIEST-CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY$4,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$3,000
UNICEF$3,000
NAT'L SEPT 11 MEM & MUS-MEMBERSHIP-TXDED$2,048
CITY HARVEST$2,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$1,000
MIT ALUMNI FUND (INCLUDES SLOAN)$800
PRINCETON ANNUAL GIVING$600
PBS-WNET 13$500
Individual grant recipient$500
SAVE THE CHILDREN (859 VOID)$240
PRINCETON CLASS '64-DUESSCHOLARSHIP FUND$150
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 (FY22–22, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Charity Navigator: $200 → 7%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

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
AL
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.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$37k · 7 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
36

Total granted

$37k
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+8%

Still filing today

71%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
InternationalArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • WS
    WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE
    2× · 2020–2022 · $11k · revenue +55%
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    2× · 2020–2022 · $9k · revenue +46%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $6k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • N(
    NMOH (NAT'L MEDAL OF HONOR) MUSEUM
    one grant, 2020 · $33k
  • CY
    CORNERSTONE YOUTH HOME
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue 0%
  • GARY SINISE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +39%
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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
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
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
5
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
6
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
7
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
8
World Monuments Fund Inc

Wmf is the leading independent organization devoted to safeguarding the world's most treasured places to enrich people's lives and build mutual understanding across cultures and communities. the organization is headquartered in new york…

Arts & Culture
9
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
10
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
11
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
12
Food and Environment Reporting Network Inc

Fern seeks to make the food system more sustainable and equitable through powerful journalism and storytelling.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Side Center for Community Life; the most unlike its peers is Mit Sloan Boston Alumni Association 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

34 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. 34 of the 45 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
23/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,169,948 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDNMOH (NAT'L MEDAL OF HONOR) MUSEUM: $33,000 · OtherNEW YORK TIMES NEEDIEST-CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $4,000 · OtherCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $3,000 · Other+27 more: $28,984 · OtherUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $9,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,350 · InternationalAMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF): $3,000 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $2,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,500 · InternationalHIAS INC: $1,500 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $1,300 · InternationalWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE: $11,000 · Youth DevelopmentCORNERSTONE YOUTH HOME: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $4,000 · Housing & ShelterCITY HARVEST INC: $6,000 · Food & NutritionGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $4,000 · PhilanthropyFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Community Improvement$1,169,948Other$68,984International$26,650Youth Development$11,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Food & Nutrition$6,000Philanthropy$5,000

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 budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,169,948 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE YOUTH HOME: $6,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF): $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER: $2,048 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORKERS FOR CHILDREN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIT Sloan Boston Alumni Association Inc: $1,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVISION TO LEARN: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWNET: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUS COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAVERICK CONCERTS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCharity Navigator: $200 over 1y, 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.

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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 & Susan Daniels Family Fdtn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lawrence & Susan Daniels Family Fdtn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
8report 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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How do I get to Lawrence & Susan Daniels Family Fdtn?

Find your warmest path to Lawrence & Susan Daniels Family Fdtn through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 45 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home