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The Lauren and Lee Fixel Family Foundation Inc

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.

$8.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$33MPhilanthropy$7.4MReligion$6.3MHealth$3.2MYouth Development$1.4MCivil Rights$1.0MInternational$535kHuman Services$461kArts & Culture$281kOther$3.4M
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $176k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $900k
  • $250k+8 grants · $7.5M
$200,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC$3,041,667
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$1,124,750
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$1,000,000
FLORIDA ACHIEVEMENT SUPPORT TRUST$750,000
SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC$678,320
THE NIGHTINGALE BAMFORD SCHOOL$400,000
THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY$250,000
SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION$250,000
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN$200,000
92ND STREET Y - YOUNG MEN'S & YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION$200,000
COLLEGIATE SCHOOL$200,000
STUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK$200,000
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$100,000
SAMS FUND$36,000
VETERINARY CARE FOUNDATION INC$25,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $461k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%EAST END HOSPICE INC: $2k → 7%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING: $10k → 17%JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $80k → 20%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE OPTIONS: $10k → 13%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING: $10k → 17%JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $75k → 20%JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $62k → 20%HEARTSHARE ST VINCENT'S SERVICES: $10k → 20%GOOD FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%GOOD FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%RELIEF RESOURCES: $25k → 20%RELIEF RESOURCES: $25k → 20%GOODS FOR GOOD INC: $5k → 20%YAMBA MALAWI: $2k → 20%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $18k → 17%TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE: $5k → 17%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $100k → 17%FRIENDS OF WHEELS: $1k → 17%FRIENDS OF WHEELS: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
DE
NC
LA
AL
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$54M · 33 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
46

Total granted

$54M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+15%

Still filing today

97%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $681k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $28M · revenue +56%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.8M · revenue +39%
  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.2M · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $500k
  • MC
    Mercatus Center Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -33%
  • CS
    CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE
    one grant, 2023 · $180k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
Manhattanville University

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

Education
5
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
7
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
8
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
9
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
10
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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12
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chesed Aharon. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Health Access Advocacy and …Independent K-12 SchoolsLocal History MuseumsCommunity Arts CentersCancer Support ServicesYouth Development ServicesFood Banks and PantriesPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%3%<5yr16%6%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr15%34%20–35yr9%13%35–55yr12%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%5%<5yr16%1%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr15%11%20–35yr9%34%35–55yr12%46%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/74
the rest of the field
17%
17,089/102,970

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 70 of the 91 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/70
Grantees still filing
43/70
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $28,268,479 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $1,688,727 · EducationTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL — $1,650,000 · Education+9 more — $1,333,000 · EducationUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $6,785,927 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH …STUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC — $451,100 · PhilanthropySTUDENT LEADER…+5 more — $207,000 · PhilanthropyTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $6,184,673 · ReligionTHE YOUNG ME…+1 more — $126,000 · ReligionTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $1,549,910 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $1,525,000 · Health+8 more — $92,000 · HealthTIGER FOUNDATION — $1,750,000 · OtherTIGER FOU…NEW YORK CITY FOUNDATION — $500,000 · OtherNEW YORK …CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE — $180,000 · OtherMARIANO RIVERA PUBLIC FOUNDATION — $460,000 · OtherMARIANO R…JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK — $217,213 · OtherCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN — $200,000 · OtherMercatus Center Inc — $250,000 · OtherMercatus …+49 more — $1,114,200 · Other+49 moreFLORIDA ACHIEVEMENT SUPPORT TRUST — $1,250,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOACHARTORG — $95,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $1,025,000 · Civil Rights
Education$32,940,206Philanthropy$7,444,027Religion$6,310,673Health$3,166,910Other$4,671,413Youth Development$1,370,000Civil Rights$1,025,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $28,268,479 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $6,785,927 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $6,184,673 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetTIGER FOUNDATION — $1,750,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $1,688,727 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL — $1,650,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $1,549,910 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $1,525,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFLORIDA ACHIEVEMENT SUPPORT TRUST — $1,250,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $1,025,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMARIANO RIVERA PUBLIC FOUNDATION — $460,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetSTUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC — $451,100 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $450,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC — $275,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMercatus Center Inc — $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK — $217,213 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN — $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $135,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYESHIVA OHR YITZCHOK — $126,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOACHARTORG — $95,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetCHESED AHARON — $75,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetVETERINARY CARE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOLLEGIATE ACADEMIES — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRELIEF RESOURCES INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $46,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCODMAN ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $43,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $42,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $36,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSAM'S FUND — $36,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetBROOKLYN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM CORPORATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TOM COUGHLIN JAY FUND FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRILEY'S WAY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC (F/K/A THE ENDEAVOR INITIATIVE INC) — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBROOME STREET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL — $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING TREATMENT AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC — $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HAMPTON FOOD PANTRY INC — $17,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetGOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST VINCENT'S SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA MILLION MASKS — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTYLER'S HOPE FOR DYSTONIA CURE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The E&SS Foundation I…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Hyde and Watson F…American Express Foun…Combined Jewish Phila…The New York Communit…National Philanthropi…Pinkerton FoundationThe Bessemer Giving F…Silicon Valley Commun…
Jewish Communal FundNY24.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The E&SS Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · American Express Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The New York Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Pinkerton Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Lauren and Lee Fixel Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Lauren and Lee Fixel Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Lauren and Lee Fixel Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 91 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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