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The Judy Glickman Lauder Foundation at a glance

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The Judy Glickman Lauder 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$2.3MEducation$2.1MCivil Rights$155kArts & Culture$91kHuman Services$65kPhilanthropy$25kEnvironment$20kInternational$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND$500,000
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE FOUNDATION$500,000
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSONS RESEARCH$250,000
SEEDS OF PEACE$10,000
USM FOUNDATION$5,000
OLYMPIA SNOWE WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$5,000
MITCHELL INSTITUTE$5,000
THE CROMWELL CENTER FOR DISABILITIES AWARENESS$1,000
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION (ME CHAPTER)$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MAINE RECOVERY FUND: $25k → 7%THE GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER: $15k → 7%MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $10k → 7%OLYMPIA SNOWE WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $5k → 7%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 34% of The Judy Glickman Lauder Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Judy Glickman Lauder Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 3 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
26

Total granted

$1.1M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-38%
-15%

Still filing today

67%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $767k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MB
    MAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE
    2× · 2021–2023 · $1.0M · revenue -75%
  • UO
    University of Southern Maine Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +45%
  • SG
    Senator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue -38%

Funded once

  • MB
    MAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE - COE AUTISM
    one grant, 2022 · $500k
  • M
    MaineHealthgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $325k · revenue +49%
  • HA
    Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine
    one grant, 2023 · $120k · revenue -22% · 27% of their budget
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
Maine Media College

Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…

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2
Maine Jewish Film Festival

The Maine Jewish Film Festival celebrates filmmakinginspiring conversation through the lens of global Jewish experience. Innovative programming invites a diverse statewide audience into the dialogue. Many of our programs include guest…

Arts & Culture
3
Maine Donor Alliance Fund

To build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…

Education
4
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts

The mission of the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts is to inspire, engage and educate through the exhibition, preservation and collection of photographic works. The Museums programs address contemporary, historical, cultural and…

Arts & Culture
5
Maine Maritime Museum

To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.

Arts & Culture
6
Maine Historical Society

Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…

Arts & Culture
7
Maine Arts Academy

The Academy is dedicated to academic excellence, commitment to the performing arts, leadership, integrity, and a virtuous code of conduct, all of which prepare students to meet the demands of a contemporary world through thoughtful…

Education
8
Maine Philanthropy Center

The Maine Philanthropy Center (MPC) is the state's leading resource that provides opportunity, leadership and support to advance the effectiveness of philanthropy in Maine and its ability to make a meaningful difference. It helps grant…

Education
9
Maine Afl-Cio

To promote and ensure workers' rights

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10
Maine Climate Action Now

MCAN catalyzes transformative education and action in response to the climate crisis. We seek to honor, unite and amplify the voices of youth, frontline communities, and others historically excluded from the climate conversation and…

Environment
11
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
12
Maine Center Ventures

Support and promote the University of Maine Graduate & Professional Center ("Maine Center") of the University of Maine System through fundraising, marketing, and engagement with Maine enterprises and employers to identify and address…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Portland Ovations; the most unlike its peers is The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 36 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
12/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Maine Foundation: $1,500,000 · EducationUniversity of Maine FoundationUniversity of New England: $500,000 · EducationUniversity of New England+2 more: $25,000 · EducationMAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE: $1,000,000 · OtherMAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCAREMAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE - COE AUTISM: $500,000 · OtherMAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE - COE AUTISMMICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSONS RESEARCH: $250,000 · OtherMICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSONS RES…+8 more: $101,791 · Other+8 moreMaineHealth: $325,000 · HealthMaineHealthNAMI MAINE: $75,000 · HealthNAMI MAINEThe Yellow Tulip Project: $55,000 · HealthThe Yellow T…THE JED FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthTHE JED FOUN…+1 more: $1,000 · HealthHolocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine: $120,000 · InternationalSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $10,000 · InternationalUniversity of Southern Maine Foundation: $75,000 · PhilanthropyJewish Community Alliance Southern Maine: $25,000 · PhilanthropyPROSPERITYME: $25,000 · Human ServicesUnited Recovery Fund: $25,000 · Human ServicesGREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER: $15,000 · Human ServicesMAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $10,000 · Human ServicesOlympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute: $5,000 · Human ServicesTREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSPEEDWELL PROJECTS: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $700 · Arts & CultureWORLD OCEAN OBSERVATORY: $10,000 · EnvironmentMAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $10,000 · Environment
Education$2,025,000Other$1,851,791Health$506,000International$130,000Philanthropy$100,000Human Services$80,000Arts & Culture$65,700Environment$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Maine Foundation: $1,500,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetUniversity of New England: $500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMaineHealth: $325,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHolocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine: $120,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetNAMI MAINE: $75,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetUniversity of Southern Maine Foundation: $75,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Yellow Tulip Project: $55,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROSPERITYME: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJewish Community Alliance Southern Maine: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUnited Recovery Fund: $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSenator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD OCEAN OBSERVATORY: $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPEEDWELL PROJECTS: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetUnion of Maine Visual Artists Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetOlympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CROMWELL CENTER FOR DISABILITIES AWARENESS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPORTLAND OVATIONS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE INSIDE OUT: $200 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.

Maine Community Found…Sam L Cohen FoundationAlbert B Glickman Fam…John T Gorman Foundat…Fisher Charitable Fou…Onion FoundationMaine InitiativesincElmina B Sewall Found…Bangor Savings Bank F…United Way IncHorizon Foundation IncTd Charitable Foundat…
Maine Community Foundation IncME43.2× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Albert B Glickman Family Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Onion Foundation · Maine Initiativesinc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · United Way Inc · Horizon Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation

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 Judy Glickman Lauder Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Judy Glickman Lauder Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Judy Glickman Lauder Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Judy Glickman Lauder 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 36 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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