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The Eric and Sarah Lane Family 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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Health$2.2MEducation$2.0MArts & Culture$255kYouth Development$247kPhilanthropy$200kReligion$197kHuman Services$114kInternational$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 16 grants below total $752,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,902,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,150,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $322k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$965k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$250,000
The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania$100,000
Rohr Chabad House at Vanderbilt University$72,000
Rye Country Day School$50,000
Atlantic Golf Club Educational Fund Inc.$50,000
Princess Grace Foundation-USA$50,000
Henrik Lundqvist Foundation Inc$30,000
The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania$25,000
Daniel W Offit Fund to Fight Glioblastoma$25,000
UJA Federation of New York$25,000
Animal Care and Control of New York City Inc$25,000
Young Dance Collective Inc$15,000
Warrior-Scholar Project Foundation$10,000
Jewish Community Center Of Harrison Inc$10,000
Rye Country Day School$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 67% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%McLean Hospital Harvard Medical School Affiliate: $50k → 8%The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation: $325k → 22%The UCLA Foundation: $25k → 14%The Windward School: $250k → 9%New York Cares Inc: $10k → 17%Young Dance Collective Inc: $10k → 20%Young Talent Inc: $5k → 13%Henrik Lundqvist Foundation Inc: $30k → 6%Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: $325k → 22%Rye Country Day School: $125k → 9%American Jewish Committee: $10k → 17%United Jewish Appeals Federation: $10k → 20%Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania: $125k → 22%Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship: $50k → 17%Columbia University: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
NE
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 14 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
24

Total granted

$2.7M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
0%

Still filing today

86%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther

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

  • THE WINDWARD SCHOOL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $800k · revenue +20%
  • RC
    RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $405k · revenue +18%
  • GH
    GREENWICH HOSPITAL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $230k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • MS
    MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $400k · revenue -15%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $325k · revenue +70%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $325k · revenue +45%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
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
3
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Manhattanville University

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

Education
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc and the most unlike its peers is Young Dance Collective Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteady#6#2#19#3#7#4#16
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 43 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr18%13%20–35yr11%26%35–55yr13%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr18%4%20–35yr11%17%35–55yr13%63%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
14%
12,235/86,127

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.

04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 45 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
15/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE WINDWARD SCHOOL — $800,000 · EducationTHE WINDWARD SCHOOLTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $600,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $535,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIRYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $405,000 · EducationRYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLUCLA FOUNDATION — $125,000 · Education+3 more — $30,000 · EducationTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $325,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $325,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL…GREENWICH HOSPITAL — $230,000 · HealthGREENWICH HOSPITALNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $100,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN F…DANIEL W OFFIT FUND TO FIGHT GLIOBLASTOMA INC — $50,000 · Health+3 more — $63,000 · Health+3 moreGARDEN OF DREAMS FOUNDATION — $177,682 · PhilanthropyGARDEN OF D…HENRIK LUNDQVIST FOUNDATION INC — $115,030 · PhilanthropyHENRIK LUND…PRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION - USA — $100,000 · PhilanthropyPRINCESS GR…ATLANTIC GOLF CLUB EDUCATIONAL FUND INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyATLANTIC GO…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWI…NEW YORK CARES INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $400,000 · Human ServicesMOUNT SINA…HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesHARLEM CHI…ROHR CHABAD HOUSE AT VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY — $72,000 · OtherROHR CHAB…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $50,000 · OtherMASS GENE…McLean Hospital Harvard Medical School Affiliate — $50,000 · OtherMcLean Ho…NEW ART PUBLICATIONS INC — $40,000 · OtherNEW ART P…University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center — $35,000 · OtherUniversit…Hamptons Invitational Charity — $15,000 · OtherNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $50,000 · OtherNETWORK F…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $25,000 · OtherFRIENDS O…ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $25,000 · OtherANIMAL CA…+8 more — $72,200 · Other+8 moreTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $150,000 · ReligionWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC — $25,000 · ReligionYOUNG DANCE COLLECTIVE INC — $55,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$2,495,000Health$1,093,000Philanthropy$512,712Human Services$500,000Other$434,200Religion$175,000Arts & Culture$65,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE WINDWARD SCHOOL — $800,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $600,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $535,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $405,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $400,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $325,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $325,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL — $230,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARDEN OF DREAMS FOUNDATION — $177,682 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHENRIK LUNDQVIST FOUNDATION INC — $115,030 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION - USA — $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetYOUNG DANCE COLLECTIVE INC — $55,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetDANIEL W OFFIT FUND TO FIGHT GLIOBLASTOMA INC — $50,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ART PUBLICATIONS INC — $40,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CARES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE THANC FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWARRIOR-SCHOLAR PROJECT FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJIMMY LEE SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $2,500 over 1y, 17% of budget
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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…The Ayco Charitable F…Paypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY26.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving 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 Eric and Sarah Lane Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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