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Robert & Roni Lemle Family Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $245k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
- $250k+1 grant · $460k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $460,000 |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC | $100,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND USA | $50,000 |
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL | $50,000 |
| JGIVE - FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND | $45,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA | $25,000 |
| AMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY (AID) COALITION | $25,000 |
| NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF AUSTIN | $25,000 |
| OLD WESTBURY GARDENS | $25,000 |
| OBERLIN COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| KIPP NYC | $10,000 |
| HETERODOX ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL | $10,000 |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 7 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LILONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +47%
Oberlin College8× · 2017–2024 · $955k · revenue +41%- OWOld Westbury Gardens Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $291k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -51%
- FAFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +38%
- CFCenter for Social Innovationone grant, 2017 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
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 new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
48 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. 48 of the 63 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds LONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Oberlin College ↗
- Who funds Old Westbury Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds JGIVE-FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OLD WESTBURY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NVLD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds UNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds HETERODOX ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAYS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH COMMUNITY GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds ENDOMETRIOSIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AND TOLERANCE CENTER OF NASSAU COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Ford Foundation · The Kaltman Family Foundation · Susan & Leonard Feinstein Foundation · Rechler Philanthropy · The Bahnik Foundation Inc · Lostritto Family Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Robert & Roni Lemle Family 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.
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.
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