How much does The Lake Family Foundation give?

The Lake Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $77,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The Lake Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Health (11%), Human Services (11%).

Who are The Lake Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Georgetown University ($40k), Greenwich Academy Inc ($26k), Trustees of Westminster School Inc ($18k).

Does The Lake Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Lake Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Lake Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.

Where is The Lake Family Foundation based?

The Lake Family Foundation is based in NY.

The Lake Family Foundation

The Lake Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Lake 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.

$78k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$156kHealth$34kHuman Services$34kArts & Culture$30kReligion$20kRecreation & Sports$4kAnimals$3kPhilanthropy$2kOther$0

02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k7 grants · $13k
$10k–50k6 grants · $65k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$220k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY	$15,000
WESTMINSTER SCHOOL	$10,000
THE WINWARD SCHOOL	$10,000
THE TAFT SCHOOL	$10,000
EXETER HEALTH RESOURCES	$10,000
LIBERTY HOUSE	$10,000
CHURCH OF BETHESDA-BY-THE-SEA	$2,500
BATH AND TENNIS CLUB HISTORIC BUILDING	$2,500
THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS	$2,500
PALM BEACH ISLAND HOSPICE FOUNDATION	$2,500
CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION	$1,000
PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY	$1,000
COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA	$500

02The need

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$237k · 17 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$237k

$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

+55%

Still filing today

47%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther

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

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +10%
GA
GREENWICH ACADEMY INC
3× · 2021–2023 · $26k · revenue +8%
TO
TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC
3× · 2023–2025 · $18k · revenue +14%

Funded once

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DETAILS ARE VOLUMINOUS & AVAILABLE AT B STRAUSS ASSOC
one grant, 2020 · $35k
THE WINDWARD SCHOOL
one grant, 2021 · $16k · revenue +13%
PC
PRINCETON CANNON DIAL ELM FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +151%

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.

Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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Pembroke Hill School

A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."

Education

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

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—

The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education

Manhattanville University

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

Education

Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education

Brunswick School Inc

Brunswick school, inc. is a day school for boys in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. the purpose of the school is to educate the "whole boy". it does so by helping boys and young men - without regard to culture, ethnicity or religion…

Education

Long Island University

To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.

—

Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education

Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Taft School Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Garden Club of Houston. 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

21 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. 21 of the 42 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/21

Grantees still filing

18/21

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$156,373Education$125,000Health$18,500Arts & Culture$15,500Philanthropy$1,000Environment$500Crime & Legal$500

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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA7.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Lake Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lake Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home