· Private foundation
Samuel J & Ethel Lefrak Charitable Trust
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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k59 grants · $144k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $156k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCY FOR ANIMALS (MATCHING TUESDAY CONTRIBUTION) | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACHIEVEMENT (CONTRIBUTION) | $25,000 |
| MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN (DONATION) | $25,000 |
| SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION (INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR'S FUND) | $20,000 |
| THE BAKER INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS (DONATION IN HONOR OF JE | $20,000 |
| ROWDY GIRL SANCTUARY INC (FARM EQUIPMENT MATCH) | $12,500 |
| WILDLIFE SOS (2024 GRANT REQUEST CONTRIBUTION) | $12,000 |
| THE ALLEN STEVENSON SCHOOL (DONATION ON BEHALF OF ALLISON BANDIER KOFFMAN A | $11,500 |
| RACE TO ERASE MS (2024 GALA DONATION) | $10,000 |
| POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION (IN HONOR OF THE 2024 GW BUSH POINTS OF LIGHT AW | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY (DONATION) | $10,000 |
| ROWDY GIRL SANCTUARY INC (DONATION TO MATCH CAMPAIGN) | $9,000 |
| THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (DONATION) | $7,000 |
| GABRIELLES ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH (DONATION) | $5,450 |
| FAMILIAL DYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION (DONATION ON BEHALF OF ALLISON BANDIER KOF | $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 (FY20–24, $129k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
64 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 47 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, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WSWILDLIFE SOS2× · 2020–2021 · $93k · revenue +83%
- MFMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC2× · 2020–2021 · $80k · revenue +86%
- RGRowdy Girl Sanctuary Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $33k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- MFMERCY FOR ANIMALS (MATCHING CONTRIBUTION)one grant, 2022 · $67k
- MFMERCY FOR ANIMALS (MATCH CONTRIBUTION)one grant, 2023 · $53k
- HKHARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL (CPL LEADERSHIP COUNCIL FUND)one grant, 2022 · $50k
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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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."
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How this is measured
99 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. 99 of the 299 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE SOS ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PARIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rowdy Girl Sanctuary Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds LIFE CAMPS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BEAUTIFUL SELF INC ↗
- Who funds THE KING'S TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds RAMAPO-BERGEN ANIMAL REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds Young Leadership Addiction Awareness Inc ↗
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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Select Equity Group Foundation · Dalia and Larry Leeds Family Foundation · Pledgeling Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund · California Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Loreen Arbus Foundation · Paulson Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Samuel J & Ethel Lefrak Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Samuel J & Ethel Lefrak Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
- The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc: 0% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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