· Private foundation
Lee and Luis Lainer Family Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $132k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $845k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BET TZEDEK | $200,000 |
| IKAR | $170,000 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $115,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $100,000 |
| NEW JEWISH NARRATIVE INC | $80,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $80,000 |
| HASHOMER HATZAIR INC-CAMPSHOMRIA | $50,000 |
| ACLU OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $50,000 |
| USA FOR UNHCR | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES | $15,000 |
| LA 1ST | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS | $15,000 |
| PLOUGHSHARES FUND | $15,000 |
| LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BTBET TZEDEK9× · 2017–2025 · $663k · revenue +123%
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC9× · 2017–2025 · $510k · revenue +81%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $280k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- PAPRESSMAN ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $1.0M
- TVTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +120%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
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.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
The principal function of uia is to administer and supervise the funds allocated for philanthropic purposes related to immigration and absorption of humanitarian migrants to israel and jewish identity programs in israel and the former…
Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
Global communities brings together local ingenuity and global insights to save lives and secure strong futures.
Human rights watch ("hrw") defends the rights of people worldwide. we scrupulously investigate abuses, expose the facts widely, and pressure those with power to respect rights and secure justice. human rights watch is an independent,…
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is a leader in advancing immigrant rights through its unique strategy drawing on its legal services to promote legal reform through litigation, advocacy and strategic communications.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 34 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW JEWISH NARRATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BET TZEDEK ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds PLOUGHSHARES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE HEALTH WORKS ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds American Supporters of Yedid Inc ↗
- Who funds United for A Fair Economy Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lee and Luis Lainer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lee and Luis Lainer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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