New York · Private foundation
The Bernard & Muriel Lauren Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $305k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 46
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations The Bernard & Muriel Lauren Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 34 | $305k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $280k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $225k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $247k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 46 | $263k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $241k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $258k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $236k | 47% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Port Chester Carver Center Inc | $130,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Georgetown University | $120,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Fordham Preparatory School | $75,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Rye Arts Center Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Lenox Hill Hospital | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater New York | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Foundation to Fight H-ABC | $65,000 | 5 | 21% |
| The Mount Sinai Hospital | $60,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Partnership for Inner City Education Dba Partnership Schools | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hispanic Society of America | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($580k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bernard & Muriel Lauren Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Barbara Dorsch Foundation Inc · Mutual of America Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · The Joe & Sandy Samberg Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Nicholas & Christina Raho Foundationinc · Margaret Cameron and James M Glickenhaus Foundation · The Goergen Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare The Bernard & Muriel Lauren Foundation with peer funders
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About The Bernard & Muriel Lauren Foundation
- How much does The Bernard & Muriel Lauren Foundation give?
- The Bernard & Muriel Lauren Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $305,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Bernard & Muriel Lauren Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Health (26%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are The Bernard & Muriel Lauren Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Port Chester Carver Center Inc ($130k), Georgetown University ($120k), Fordham Preparatory School ($75k).
- Does The Bernard & Muriel Lauren Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bernard & Muriel Lauren Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Bernard & Muriel Lauren Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Barbara Dorsch Foundation Inc, Mutual of America Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Bernard & Muriel Lauren Foundation based?
- The Bernard & Muriel Lauren Foundation is based in NY.
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