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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $240k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORDHAM PREPATORY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| RYE ARTS CENTER | $25,000 |
| MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVATORY | $10,000 |
| SKYLANDS SANCTUARY & ANIMAL RESCUE | $10,000 |
| MISSION FIRST HOUSING GROUP | $10,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC | $10,000 |
| RYE FREE READING ROOM | $10,000 |
| OPERATION OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| CANCER SUPPORT TEAM | $10,000 |
| SPRYE | $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 (FY17–25, $239k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- PCPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC7× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +94%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +47%- LHLenox Hill Hospital5× · 2017–2021 · $75k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $20k
- MIMomentous Instituteone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +14%
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.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
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.
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.
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.
To provide excellent healthcare services without regard to age, sex, race, creed, national origin or disability; to serve as an educational and research center for physicians, nurses and healthcare professionals; to provide health…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To provide patient care at the highest quality, most technologically advanced and consistent multidisciplinary care in an environment where the safety, dignity and comfort of each patient are paramount. in delivering patient care, new york…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Broadway Bach Ensemble Ltd. 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 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
79 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. 79 of the 140 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.
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- Who funds RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
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- Who funds ABILIS INC ↗
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- Who funds NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MISSION FIRST HOUSING GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RYE FREE READING ROOM ↗
- Who funds SKYLANDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY AND RESCUE INC ↗
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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: 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
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 The Bernard & Muriel Lauren 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Abilis Inc — 74% of income from government
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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