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Richard & Karen Lefrak Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.

Arts & Culture$15MHealth$5.7MEducation$3.0MPhilanthropy$558kCivil Rights$210kRecreation & Sports$125kAnimals$35kPublic Safety & Disaster$26kHuman Services$20kOther$2.5M
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.8M
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC$2,050,000
NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC$1,000,000
UJA-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC$500,000
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH$250,000
TRUSTEES OF AMHERST COLLEGE$200,000
BARNARD COLLEGE$200,000
FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC$200,000
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$150,000
SYLVESTER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER$100,000
RANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC$100,000
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI$50,000
THE JFK CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$50,000
THE MIAMI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$35,000
YOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX$25,000
SCOA INC DBA SOUTHAMPTON ARTS CENTER$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 17%GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 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.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$25M · 18 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
21

Total granted

$25M
$983k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
-2%

Still filing today

83%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyCivil RightsInternationalOther

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

  • TP
    THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $13M · revenue +32%
  • NY
    NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +32%
  • AC
    AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES
    3× · 2019–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • AC
    AMHEREST COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • TJ
    THE JFK CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (SUPPORT THE REACH)
    one grant, 2019 · $250k
  • AG
    ATLANTIC GOLF CLUB EDUCATIONAL FUND INC
    one grant, 2019 · $33k · revenue -47%

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.

1
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
2
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
3
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
4
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

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

Health
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
8
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
9
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
10
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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11
Manhattanville University

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

Education
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%6%5–10yr21%11%10–20yr19%20%20–35yr12%20%35–55yr13%40%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr21%1%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr12%3%35–55yr13%74%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
13%
5,282/41,534

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

35 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 49 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
20/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $13,350,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INCAmerican Museum of Natural History — $1,450,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural History+4 more — $41,480 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $5,000,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN F…THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $470,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUND…+3 more — $182,500 · HealthAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES — $2,450,000 · EducationAMHERST COLL…BARNARD COLLEGE — $200,000 · EducationBARNARD COLL…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $150,000 · Education+6 more — $240,000 · Education+6 moreTHE JFK CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $1,260,000 · OtherTHE JFK CE…AMHEREST COLLEGE — $500,000 · OtherAMHEREST C…THE JFK CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (SUPPORT THE REACH) — $250,000 · OtherTHE JFK CE…SYLVESTER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER — $160,000 · OtherSYLVESTER …MIAMI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $115,000 · Other+18 more — $271,000 · Other+18 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $500,000 · PhilanthropyATLANTIC GOLF CLUB EDUCATIONAL FUND INC — $33,334 · PhilanthropyGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC — $200,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $10,000 · Civil RightsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $125,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$14,841,480Health$5,652,500Education$3,040,000Other$2,556,000Philanthropy$558,334Civil Rights$210,000Recreation & Sports$125,000

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 budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $13,350,000 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $5,000,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES — $2,450,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $1,450,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $470,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE — $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $150,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $125,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMIAMI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $115,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetRANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE — $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC GOLF CLUB EDUCATIONAL FUND INC — $33,334 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF AMERICAN FINANCE — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANG LANG INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEWY BODY DEMENTIA RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW YORK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog — $3,480 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHELSEA MUSIC FESTIVAL CORPORATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY17× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Richard & Karen Lefrak Charitable Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
  • New World Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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

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How do I get to Richard & Karen Lefrak Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Richard & Karen Lefrak Charitable Foundation Inc 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 49 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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