· Private foundation
Lerner Gray 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Friends of the Palmetto Bluff Conservancy Inc | $10,410 |
| Navy Seal Museum | $9,900 |
| Operation Patriot FOB | $8,920 |
| United Way of the Lowcountry | $8,000 |
| Brillo de Mujer Home Inc | $5,400 |
| The Trail Conservancy | $4,100 |
| Outside Foundation | $2,000 |
| Savannah Music Festival | $1,720 |
| One West 54th Street Foundation | $1,300 |
| The Trevor Project | $1,034 |
| Bluffton Self Help | $1,029 |
| The Madeira School | $1,000 |
| Backpack Buddies of Hilton Head | $798 |
| Twilight Theater Company | $500 |
| Court Street Arts | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 11 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE LOWCOUNTRY6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +26%
- USUDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +73%
- HIHELP-KIDS-INDIA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- GCGRACE CLUB INCone grant, 2024 · $8k
- AFANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INCone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue 0%
- TSThe Salvation Armyone grant, 2020 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
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…
The Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) is dedicated to enhancing the United States' image abroad through American Art. Founded as a public-private, non-partisan partnership in 1986, FAPE works with the U.S. Department…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Longhouse reserve inspires living with art in all forms. founded by jack lenor larsen, its collections, gardens, art and programs reflect world cultures.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
The museum of the american revolution uncovers and shares compelling stories about the diverse people and complex events that sparked america's ongoing experiment in liberty, equality and self-government.
To present and originate high quality exhibitions with related educational programs and community outreach activities.
The Organizations primary impact is to preserve and enhance San Franciscos unique architectural and cultural identity.
Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Lowcountry and the most unlike its peers is Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ↗
- Who funds UDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAVERHILL HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds HELP-KIDS-INDIA INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION PATRIOTS FOB INC ↗
- Who funds THE OUTSIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRILLO DE MUJER HOME INC ↗
- Who funds HAVERHILL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Trail Conservancy ↗
- Who funds The Madeira School ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC ↗
- Who funds BLUFFTON SELF HELP INC ↗
- Who funds ONE WEST 54TH STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOUNDATION FOR WOUNDED MILITARY HEROS ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds KELSEY ↗
- Who funds MARLINS FOR MASON INC ↗
- Who funds SPCA of Texas ↗
- Who funds AL-ANON FAMILY GROUP HEADQUARTERS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Hypertherm Hope Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Lerner Gray Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Twilight Theater Company — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.