· Private foundation
Michael S Feldberg - Ruth Lazarus Charitable Trust
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 $10k41 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $178k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $385k
- $250k+1 grant · $416k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL SCHOOL CLIMATE CENTER | $415,800 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $100,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES | $85,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $33,060 |
| FRIENDS SEMINARY | $30,000 |
| 92ND ST Y | $29,600 |
| BRANDEIS | $25,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| INNOCENCE PROJECT | $15,000 |
| YAMBA MALAWI | $10,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| GIVEBUTTER | $7,871 |
| KENNETH B SCHWARTZ CENTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
64 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2025, 23 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $464k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +39%
WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $361k · revenue +206%- FHFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC7× · 2017–2025 · $319k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- HSHARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTHone grant, 2019 · $20k
- SLSTAR LEGACY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue -12%
- YFYARIS FAMILY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -93%
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.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
How this is measured
72 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. 72 of the 122 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 JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SCHOOL CLIMATE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Push for Empowered Pregnancy Inc ↗
- Who funds EAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds YAMBA MALAWI INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY LAX INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds GRIFFIN CARES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN ↗
- Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF TRIAL LAWYERS ↗
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 · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · The Lazarus Charitable Trust Co Joan Lazarus · The New York Community Trust · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ford Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Open Society Institute
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Michael S Feldberg - Ruth Lazarus Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael S Feldberg - Ruth Lazarus Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Silent Spring Institute Inc: 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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