· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+4 grants · $3.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| RANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC | $100,000 |
| SYLVESTER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER | $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 |
| SCOA INC DBA SOUTHAMPTON ARTS CENTER | $25,000 |
| HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against -2% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TPTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $13M · revenue +32%
- NYNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC3× · 2019–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +32%
- ACAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES3× · 2019–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +89%
Funded once
- ACAMHEREST COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $500k
- TJTHE JFK CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (SUPPORT THE REACH)one grant, 2019 · $250k
- AGATLANTIC GOLF CLUB EDUCATIONAL FUND INCone grant, 2019 · $33k · revenue -47%
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.
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.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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.
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.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 49 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 THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds RANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC GOLF CLUB EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds PRISMA HEALTH - BLOUNT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF AMERICAN FINANCE ↗
- Who funds GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds LANG LANG INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds MELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard & Karen Lefrak Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard & Karen Lefrak Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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