How much does The Lamport Foundation give?

The Lamport Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $75,525 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 45 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does The Lamport Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (50%), Science & Tech (19%), Health (7%).

Who are The Lamport Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc ($54k), Metropolitan Museum of Art ($33k), Mount Sinai Health System Inc ($15k).

Does The Lamport Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Lamport Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Lamport Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel, The New York Community Trust.

Where is The Lamport Foundation based?

The Lamport Foundation is based in NY.

The Lamport Foundation

The Lamport Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Lamport Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$76k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$20k

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 2024.

Arts & Culture$147kScience & Tech$55kHealth$20kPhilanthropy$19kHuman Services$16kSocial Science$10kEnvironment$6kEducation$6kOther$0

02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k25 grants · $15k
$10k–50k4 grants · $61k

$250

Median grant

States reached

$388k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
HARVARD UNIVERSITY	$20,000
METROPOLITAN OPERA	$15,000
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC	$15,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART	$10,500
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL FUND	$5,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK	$2,000
THE SMITH FUND	$2,000
BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION	$750
THE DOE FUND	$500
VISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK (VNS HEALTH)	$500
DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE	$500
CHILDREN'S AID	$500
THE MGH FUND	$500
STANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC	$250
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC	$250

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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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$224k · 52 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

52 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$224k

$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+44%

Still filing today

63%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

TP
THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC
4× · 2020–2024 · $54k · revenue +5%
MM
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
5× · 2020–2024 · $33k · revenue +119%
MS
MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC
3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +37%

Funded once

HU
HARVARD UNIVERSITY FAAS FUND
one grant, 2023 · $35k
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIT 669 INC
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -15%
MO
Museum of Modern Artgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +44%

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.

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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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

New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment

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

Boston Architectural College

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

—

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

New York League of Conservation Voters

See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…

—

Manhattanville University

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

Education

American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

—

Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Neue Galerie New York. 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

43 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. 43 of the 64 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)

42/43

Grantees still filing

38/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$126,955Arts & Culture$97,100Human Services$28,000Education$26,554Philanthropy$8,000Environment$5,000Animals$2,500

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY14.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · The New York Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Lamport Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lamport Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

12report 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