· Private foundation
The Lanie and Ethel 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GESELLSCHAFT DER FREUNDE VON BAYREUTH FRIENDS OF BAYREUTH SOCIETY | $80,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY | $17,000 |
| THE HUDSON REVIEW | $14,000 |
| KNEISEL HALL | $8,000 |
| NY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| LA OPERA | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 45% of grant dollars ($283k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 55% that went abroad ($345k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 55% of all-years giving ($345k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against -23% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NENEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC7× · 2019–2025 · $116k · revenue +42%
KNEISEL HALL7× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +383%- EBEAST BLUE HILL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION3× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF BAYREUTH SOCIETYone grant, 2024 · $75k
- ECENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND (THE ACTORS FUND)one grant, 2021 · $5k
- UPUNIQUE PROJECTS INCone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue -23%
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.
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.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
The general purpose of the organization is to promote chamber music concerts to the general public.
Fine Arts Radio, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to supporting classical and classic music in Connecticut and New York
To further art education and appreciation.
To enhance and promote musical performances of all kinds of ensembles such as orchestras, chamber ensembles, and solo recitals by providing a variety of performance opportunities and personal networks to members of musicians in new york so…
The mission of the Bowdoin International Music Festival is to provide gifted young musicians from around the world with an opportunity to study with world-class artists, and to provide audiences with classical music performed to the…
To broaden experience, knowledge and enjoyment of every style of new music by embracing the full range of today's compositional activity and giving voice to music that might otherwise not be heard.
A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and build strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.
Support and encourage a collaborative community of the visual, performing and literary arts through education, grants, scholarships and events.
Westbury arts is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that delivers arts and cultural programs that connect, educate and inspire the westbury, ny community. activities include concerts, shows, exhibits, lectures, etc.
The mission of community music center is to make high-quality music accessible to people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities, regardless of financial means. we believe in the power of music to connect people, celebrate cultures and…
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 14 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds THE HUDSON REVIEW INC ↗
- Who funds KNEISEL HALL ↗
- Who funds EAST BLUE HILL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNIQUE PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds WATERSHED CENTER FOR THE CERAMIC ARTS ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lanie and Ethel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lanie and Ethel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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