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Raphell Sims Lakowitz Memorial Foundation at a glance

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Raphell Sims Lakowitz Memorial 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.

$43k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$30kCivil Rights$24kEducation$22kYouth Development$20kHealth$10kArts & Culture$5kFood & Nutrition$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
$1,032
Median grant
5
States reached
$395k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$17,222
ACLU FOUNDATION INC$10,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$5,000
UNICEF USA$2,092
ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE$1,310
UNWRA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC$1,043
AMERICANS NEAR EAST FEFUGE AID$1,032
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$1,031
WORLD FOOD PROGRAM$1,030
MUSLIM AID USA$1,030
PALESTINIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION$1,021
DESALES UNIVERSITY$1,000
WHITE STORK US LIMITED$250
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $1k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
DC
LA
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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$49k · 6 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
19

Total granted

$49k
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+28%

Still filing today

67%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’22’24’25
InternationalArts & CultureCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $18k · revenue 0%
  • R
    REPRIEVE
    3× · 2019–2024 · $14k · revenue +6%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2017–2022 · $12k

Funded once

  • PA
    POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +15%
  • QC
    QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +54%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $11k
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
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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3
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
4
Us Middle East Project Inc

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…

International
5
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
7
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
8
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Desales University. 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

23 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. 23 of the 36 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
14/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $11,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,750 · OtherQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCIndividual grant recipient: $10,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPLANNED PARENTHOOD ORG: $10,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD ORGQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION PS 201 PROJECT: $10,000 · OtherQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION PS 201 PROJECTJAZZ FORUM ARTS INC: $3,500 · OtherJAZZ FORUM ARTS INC+13 more: $6,920 · Other+13 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $17,852 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES…International Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Com…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,192 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR U…UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC: $1,043 · International+5 more: $5,084 · International+5 moreREPRIEVE (US): $13,500 · Civil RightsREPRIEVE (US)AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIB…POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentPOLICE ATHLETIC …ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE INC: $1,310 · Arts & CultureMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC: $91 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art: $85 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $1,030 · Human ServicesMUSLIM AID AMERICA: $1,030 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$63,420International$31,171Civil Rights$23,500Youth Development$20,000Arts & Culture$1,486Human Services$1,030Public Safety & Disaster$1,030

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $17,852 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREPRIEVE (US): $13,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAZZ FORUM ARTS INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,192 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE INC: $1,310 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $1,032 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDESALES UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STATE DEFENDERS ASSOCIATIONINC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY TO FAMILY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC: $91 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $85 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.

The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY12.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Raphell Sims Lakowitz Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Raphell Sims Lakowitz Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 36 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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