· Private foundation
The Lauer Philanthropic 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOREHOUSE COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| THE SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL SERVICE AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| JUST CAPITAL | $10,000 |
| BETH EL SYNAGOGUE | $10,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SIBLEY HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN COUNCIL ON GERMANY | $5,000 |
| CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 15 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 FY2024, 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
- TSTHE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC4× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +15%
- COCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC4× · 2017–2022 · $75k · revenue +18%
- TPTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION2× · 2017–2018 · $75k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- ASATLANTIC SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $50k
- JFJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +292%
- KCKENNEDY CENTERone grant, 2019 · $35k
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 the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
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.
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…
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 40 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 THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL ON GERMANY INC ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships Incorporated ↗
- Who funds ROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds N STREET VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SOMERSET ES EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lauer Philanthropic Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lauer Philanthropic Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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