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Lesch - Percy Foundation at a glance

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Lesch - Percy 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.

$41k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$72kEducation$32kCommunity Improvement$10kRecreation & Sports$7kInternational$4kHealth$1kHuman Services$300
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$9,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$100k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRONX COMMUNITY CABLE PROGRAMMING CORPORATION$10,000
CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR NEW YORK CITY INC$10,000
THE YOUNG MENS AND YOUNG WOMENS HEBREW ASSOCIATION$9,000
RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC$5,000
CONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK$4,000
NEW YORK JUNIOR TENNIS LEAGUE INC$2,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $300) land where the poverty rate runs at 28%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%BRONXWORKS INC: $300 → 28%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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$109k · 7 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$109k
$1k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+128%

Still filing today

71%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthReligionHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +31%
  • NY
    NEW YORK JUNIOR TENNIS LEAGUE INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +77%
  • AF
    American Friends of Migdal OHR
    2× · 2018–2021 · $4k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • AS
    AMC SUPPORT INC
    one grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +24%
  • CM
    CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +143%
  • BRONXWORKS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $300 · revenue +128%
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
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc

Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.

Human Services
2
The Brooklyn Nets & New York Liberty Foundation
Philanthropy
3
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
4
Bronx Charter School for Better Learning

Bronx charter school for better learning provides its students with a solid foundation for academic success, through achievements that exceeds citywide averages and meets or exceeds new york state standards and national norms in all…

Education
5
Jewish Child Care Association of New York

Jcca's mission is to provide the highest quality child welfare and mental health services to new york's neediest and most vulnerable children and families to ensure that their safety, permanency and well-being leads to a life of stability…

Human Services
6
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
7
Bronx Children's Museum

Bronx children's museum's mission is to foster curiosity, creativity, and a lifelong love of learning for children and families regardless of background. we provide a gateway for more than 100,000 children annually to arts, culture, and…

Arts & Culture
8
Uncommon New York City Charter Schools

Uncommon new york city charter schools operates outstanding urban public schools that close the opportunity gap and prepare students from low-income communities to graduate from college.

Education
9
Luria Academy of Brooklyn

Luria academy is a child-centered environment dedicated to academic excellence and a sophisticated knowledge of jewish text and jewish heritage. located in the prospect heights neighborhood of brookly, luria academy is a jewish…

Education
10
Jewish Community Centre of York Pennsylvania

The york jewish community center creates opportunities for everyone, inspires relationships, builds a community of well-being, and enhances jewish communal life.

Human Services
11
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
12
The Child Study Center of New York

To provide a program for children with special needs, ages three to five years by utilizing the disciplines of psychology, speech therapy, occupational therapy, and physical therapy as integral functions of the educational program.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Junior Tennis League Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association. 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $54,150 · ReligionTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIA…BRONXNET PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION(FORMER BRONX COMMUNITY CABLE PROGRAMMING CORP ): $25,000 · EducationBRONXNET PUBLIC MEDIA CORPO…RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · EducationRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL IN…CONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $15,950 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF…NEW YORK JUNIOR TENNIS LEAGUE INC: $6,975 · OtherNEW YORK JUNIOR TENNIS L…THE BOOKS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $2,300 · OtherTHE BOOKS FOR KIDS FOUND…CHURCH OF THE ABIDING PRESENCE: $1,400 · OtherCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR NEW YORK CITY INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCITIZENS …American Friends of Migdal OHR: $3,500 · Youth DevelopmentAMC SUPPORT INC: $500 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $500 · HealthBRONXWORKS INC: $300 · Human Services
Religion$54,150Education$30,000Other$26,625Community Improvement$10,000Youth Development$3,500Health$1,000Human Services$300

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 budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $54,150 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBRONXNET PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION(FORMER BRONX COMMUNITY CABLE PROGRAMMING CORP ): $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR NEW YORK CITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK JUNIOR TENNIS LEAGUE INC: $6,975 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOOKS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $2,300 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMC SUPPORT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRONXWORKS INC: $300 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.

National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA8.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Lesch - Percy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lesch - Percy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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