How much does Sharon & Lewis Korman Foundation give?

Sharon & Lewis Korman Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $79,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Sharon & Lewis Korman Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (34%), Arts & Culture (22%), Education (20%).

Who are Sharon & Lewis Korman Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc ($111k), Cornell University ($60k), The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ($52k).

Does Sharon & Lewis Korman Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Sharon & Lewis Korman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Sharon & Lewis Korman Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc, The Connecticut Community Foundation, Ge Aerospace Foundation.

Where is Sharon & Lewis Korman Foundation based?

Sharon & Lewis Korman Foundation is based in NY.

Sharon & Lewis Korman Foundation

Sharon & Lewis Korman Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Sharon & Lewis Korman Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$80k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$205kArts & Culture$134kEducation$119kFood & Nutrition$56kRecreation & Sports$22kPhilanthropy$14kMembership Benefit$11kHuman Services$10kOther$0

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k21 grants · $45k
$10k–50k2 grants · $35k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$207k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CORNELL UNIVERSITY	$25,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART	$10,000
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY	$6,500
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART	$5,000
ST ANDREWS FUND	$2,500
FAMILY LEGAL CARE FOUNDATION	$2,500
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN	$2,500
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY	$2,500
CITY MEALS ON WHEELS	$2,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL	$2,000
SKIN CANCER FOUNDATION	$2,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA	$2,000
GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER	$2,000
CITY HARVEST	$2,000
FEED THE CHILDREN	$2,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$564k · 39 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$564k

$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

+21%

Still filing today

69%

61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthEducationFood & NutritionInternationalMembership BenefitOther

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

Cornell University
2× · 2024–2025 · $60k · revenue +14%
TN
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations
9× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +76%
MM
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
8× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +58%

Funded once

AF
ACADEMY FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +81%
TV
THE VIRTUE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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ADL
one grant, 2021 · $5k

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.

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

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

Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture

The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture

The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education

New York Botanical Garden

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…

Environment

Manhattanville University

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

Education

The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture

The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

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…

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Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Museum of Natural History. 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

46 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. 46 of the 64 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

45/46

Grantees still filing

32/46

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$157,556Education$120,500Arts & Culture$120,215Other$112,675Food & Nutrition$50,000Philanthropy$22,000Recreation & Sports$20,000

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.

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.

Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation IncCT13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Sharon & Lewis Korman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sharon & Lewis Korman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home