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The Blanche and Irwin Lerner Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Blanche and Irwin Lerner Charitable Foundation

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.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$138kHealth$90kInternational$89kScience & Tech$57kReligion$45kArts & Culture$30kHuman Services$8kPhilanthropy$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$96k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEMPLE EMANU-EL$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY19–21, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $3k → 6%NJY CAMPS: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$416k · 16 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
8

Total granted

$416k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+22%

Still filing today

63%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $45k · revenue +114%
  • AF
    American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ
    6× · 2017–2023 · $31k · revenue +50%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $31k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • NJ
    NEW JERSEY FEDERATION OF YOUNG MEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND YOUNG WOMEN'S
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +16%
  • FI
    FEED ISRAEL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +22%
  • ZT
    Zaka Tel-Aviv Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +3%
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.

1
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
3
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
4
University of Judaism Foundation
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5
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
6
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
7
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
8
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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9
Sherit Isroel
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10
American Friends of Tzir Hemed
Philanthropy
11
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
12
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc; the most unlike its peers is Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc. 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

19 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. 19 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $45,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INCAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $31,000 · InternationalAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv UnivAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $31,000 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTIT…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $31,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INCAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $20,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $20,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES+1 more: $4,000 · InternationalJEWISH SERVICE FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED: $39,000 · OtherJEWISH SERVICE FOR THE DEVELOPMENTA…AMERICAN ASSOCIATES BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV: $31,000 · OtherAMERICAN ASSOCIATES BEN GURION UNIV…WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: $26,000 · OtherWEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCEHADASSAH: $25,000 · OtherHADASSAHTEMPLE EMANUEL: $20,000 · OtherTEMPLE EMANUELLAUREL SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $5,000 · Other+2 more: $4,000 · OtherTRACYS KIDS INC: $40,000 · HealthTRACYS KIDS…MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · HealthMUSCULAR DY…AUTISM SPEAKS INC: $2,500 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationRUTGERS U…AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesNEW JERSEY FEDERATION OF YOUNG MEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND YOUNG WOMEN'S: $5,000 · Human ServicesFEED ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $4,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $4,000 · PhilanthropyZaka Tel-Aviv Inc: $4,000 · PhilanthropyANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $1,000 · Civil Rights
International$182,000Other$150,000Health$48,500Education$40,000Arts & Culture$30,000Human Services$13,000Philanthropy$12,000Civil Rights$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $45,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTRACYS KIDS INC: $40,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $31,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $31,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $31,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW JERSEY FEDERATION OF YOUNG MEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND YOUNG WOMEN'S: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZaka Tel-Aviv Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 The Blanche and Irwin Lerner Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Blanche and Irwin Lerner Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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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Find your warmest path to The Blanche and Irwin Lerner Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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