· 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 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 $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 |
| Court Street Arts | $500 |
| Blood Cancer United | $500 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +26% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 66 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lerner Gray Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lerner Gray Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Twilight Theater Company: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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