· Private foundation
The Laufer Family Foundation Inc
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KEW GARDENS SYNAGOGUE | $18,060 |
| MESIVTHA YESHIVA RABBI CHAIM BERLIN | $10,000 |
| YESHIVA ZICHRON MEILECH | $5,000 |
| YOUNG ISRAEL OF LAWRENCE-CEDARHURST | $2,925 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF IDF | $1,560 |
| CONGREGATION ADAS YEREIM OF KEW GAR | $1,000 |
| YOUNG ISRAEL OF RIVERDALE | $1,000 |
| YESHIVA GEDOLA OF CARTERET | $1,000 |
| DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND | $1,000 |
| HACHAIM VEHASHALOM | $520 |
| ONE ISRAEL FUND | $500 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHEVRA KADI | $500 |
| KHAL CHASIDIM OF LAWRENCE | $500 |
| CONGREGATION ADAS YEREIM OF KEW GAR | $500 |
| CHAI LIFE LINE | $350 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
40 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YOYESHIVA OF CENTRAL QUEENS6× · 2019–2024 · $9k · revenue +13%
- RCRABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA5× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +179%
- YUYESHIVA UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2023 · $4k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
- YYYAD YISROEL SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
Religious School
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
Religious Teaching
A school-section 170(b)(1)(a)(ii), operating from the preschool pre-k level through high school, and chartered ny the new york state education department and board of regents.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 89 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.
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: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · Alyad Foundation Inc · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Mindel Foundation · Hyman & Ann Arbesfeld Foundation Inc · Saul Schottenstein Foundation C · The Yale Fishman Family Foundation · Maalot · Ahavas Avraham Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Laufer Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Laufer Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Rabbinical College of America: 5% of income from government
- Golda Och Academy: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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