· Private foundation
Leila & Mickey Straus Fam Char Tr
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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $276k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+7 grants · $2.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ASSOC OF THE NATL THEATRE | $500,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $500,000 |
| WOMEN IN NEED | $500,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $450,000 |
| AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $300,705 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC | $250,000 |
| BALLET THEATRE FOUNATION INC | $250,000 |
| SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP AFGHANISTAN | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200,000 |
| WNET | $150,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA | $110,000 |
| MAASAI WILDERNESS CONSERVATION FUND | $109,000 |
| REGENTS OF UNIV CALIFORNIA BERKELEY | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT COMMITTEE | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE | $100,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $510k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
68 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 38 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NTNATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC4× · 2020–2025 · $974k · revenue +171%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC2× · 2021–2025 · $550k · revenue +20%
WOMEN IN NEED INC2× · 2021–2025 · $550k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- MWMSF/Doctors Without Bordersone grant, 2024 · $300k
- ABAmerican Ballet Theatreone grant, 2023 · $250k
- UOUniversity of Wisconsinone grant, 2021 · $160k
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 mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
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).
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.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
How this is measured
106 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. 106 of the 226 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE POPULATION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP-AFGHANISTAN INC ↗
- Who funds MAASAI WILDERNESS CONSERVATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Boys Hope Girls Hope of NY Inc ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IBU Foundation ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA (MOAD) ↗
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 · Daniel M Neidich & Brooke Garber Foundation · Globalgiving Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · J & Ar Foundation · The Robert and Joyce Menschel Family Fdn · Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Jct Foundation · Kazickas Family Foundation · The Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Leila & Mickey Straus Fam Char Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leila & Mickey Straus Fam Char Tr. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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