· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SKYLANDS SANCTUARY & ANIMAL RESCUE | $10,000 |
| RYE FREE READING ROOM | $10,000 |
| MISSION FIRST HOUSING GROUP | $10,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC | $10,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| ORPHAN ANNI-MALS FARM SANCTUARY | $10,000 |
| SPRYE | $10,000 |
| OPERATION OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| ABILIS | $10,000 |
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- MIMomentous Instituteone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +14%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
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…
How this is measured
79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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
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 PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE RYE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Lenox Hill Hospital ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Foundation to Fight H-ABC ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE JAY HERITAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds The Osborn Foundation ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds ABILIS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MISSION FIRST HOUSING GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds RYE FREE READING ROOM ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds New Pathways For Youth ↗
- Who funds PART OF THE SOLUTION ↗
- Who funds SKYLANDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY AND RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Momentous Institute ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds American Liver Foundation ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bernard & Muriel Lauren Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bernard & Muriel Lauren Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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