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LNS&JNS 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.

$412k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20232025.

Education$531kCrime & Legal$155kArts & Culture$55kPhilanthropy$38kCommunity Improvement$5kInternational$5kHealth$5kOther$115k
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $265k
$15,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEACHERS COLLEGE - COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$100,000
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL$60,000
BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE$55,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$50,000
JAPAN SOCIETY$25,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$25,000
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE$20,000
DALTON SCHOOL$15,000
NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL$15,000
SAN DIEGO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW$10,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$10,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$5,000
NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION$5,000
TAFT SCHOOL$5,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND - USA$5,000
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%THE MORDECAI KAPLAN CENTER FOR JEWISH PEOPLEHOOD: $10k → 11%BRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $20k → 10%SAN DIEGO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW: $10k → 11%NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $10k → 17%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 25%BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $55k → 14%JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL: $3k → 11%TAFT SCHOOL: $12k → 9%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $25k → 7%BRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $20k → 10%SAN DIEGO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW: $10k → 11%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $10k → 17%BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $55k → 14%JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL: $2k → 11%TAFT SCHOOL: $6k → 9%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $25k → 7%SAN DIEGO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW: $10k → 11%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $10k → 17%BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $45k → 14%JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL: $2k → 11%TAFT SCHOOL: $5k → 9%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $15k → 7%TEACHERS COLLEGE - COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $100k → 17%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $50k → 11%TEACHERS COLLEGE - COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%TEACHERS COLLEGE - COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $40k → 17%COLUMBIA SCIENTIFIC UNION FOR REDUCTION OF GUN VIOLENCE - COLUMBIA UNIVERSI: $10k → 17%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND - USA: $5k → 17%STUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK: $3k → 17%ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL: $60k → 17%STUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK: $3k → 17%ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL: $60k → 17%STUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK: $3k → 17%ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL: $8k → 17%DALTON SCHOOL: $15k → 17%NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $15k → 17%DALTON SCHOOL: $15k → 17%DALTON SCHOOL: $15k → 17%NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $15k → 17%NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $15k → 17%COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $1k → 17%JAPAN SOCIETY: $25k → 17%COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $1k → 17%JAPAN SOCIETY: $15k → 17%COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $1k → 17%JAPAN SOCIETY: $15k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$758k · 13 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$758k
$20k

Still filing today

92%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalArts & CultureInternationalHealthOther

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

  • BC
    BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $155k · revenue +23%
  • AJ
    ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $128k · revenue +26%
  • JS
    JAPAN SOCIETY INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $55k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • CS
    COLUMBIA SCIENTIFIC UNION FOR REDUCTION OF GUN VIOLENCE - COLUMBIA UNIVERSI
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • MK
    MORDECAI KAPLAN CENTER FOR JEWISH PEOPLEHOOD
    one grant, 2023 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

4
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
7
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
8
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
9
The Trustees of Grinnell College

To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…

Education
10
The Academy of the New Church

The mission of the academy is to study and teach the truths of the natural and spiritual worlds in the light of the old testament, the new testament, and the writings of emanuel swedenborg. this is done at the academy of the new church…

Education
11
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
12
Hathaway Brown School

The school is dedicated to excellence in the education of girls. our true mission, as reflected in our motto "non scholae sed vitae discimus," is learning & preparation for life.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Taft School Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. 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

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Teachers College Columbia University — $190,000 · EducationTeachers College Columbia UniversityABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL — $127,500 · EducationABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOLWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL — $45,000 · EducationTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOLDALTON SCHOOLS INC — $45,000 · EducationDALTON SCHOOLS INCBRYN MAWR COLLEGE — $40,000 · EducationBRYN MAWR COLLEGETHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION — $23,000 · Education+2 more — $10,000 · EducationBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $155,000 · Crime & LegalBRADY CENTER TO PRE…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $65,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CON…SAN DIEGO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — $30,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO UNIV…COLUMBIA SCIENTIFIC UNION FOR REDUCTION OF GUN VIOLENCE - COLUMBIA UNIVERSI — $10,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA SCIEN…MORDECAI KAPLAN CENTER FOR JEWISH PEOPLEHOOD — $10,000 · OtherMORDECAI KAPLA…JAPAN SOCIETY INC — $55,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $30,000 · PhilanthropySTUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC — $7,500 · PhilanthropyBROWN UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · Community ImprovementJEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC — $5,000 · InternationalNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Health
Education$530,500Crime & Legal$155,000Other$115,000Arts & Culture$55,000Philanthropy$37,500Community Improvement$5,000International$5,000Health$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTeachers College Columbia University — $190,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $155,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL — $127,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJAPAN SOCIETY INC — $55,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDALTON SCHOOLS INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRYN MAWR COLLEGE — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION — $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Eric P & Evelyn E Newman CharitableMO14.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eric P & Evelyn E Newman Charitable · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 LNS&JNS 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • The Taft School Corporation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to LNS&JNS Foundation?

Find your warmest path to LNS&JNS Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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