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The Lauren and Lee Fixel Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$33MPhilanthropy$7.0MReligion$6.6MHealth$3.4MYouth Development$1.8MCivil Rights$1.0MInternational$519kArts & Culture$401kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION$250,000
THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY$250,000
92ND STREET Y - YOUNG MEN'S & YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION$200,000
COLLEGIATE SCHOOL$200,000
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN$200,000
STUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK$200,000
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$100,000
SAMS FUND$36,000
RILEY'S WAY FOUNDATION$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its 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%TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE: $5k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $18k → 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
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

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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
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

  • 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
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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/70
Grantees still filing
44/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetMercatus Center Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOACHARTORG: $95,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetCHESED AHARON: $75,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetRELIEF RESOURCES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOLLEGIATE ACADEMIES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVETERINARY CARE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% 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 budgetRILEY'S WAY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBROOME STREET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TOM COUGHLIN JAY FUND FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 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 budgetLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTYLER'S HOPE FOR DYSTONIA CURE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJewish Adoption and Foster Care Options Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 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

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 Lauren and Lee Fixel Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lauren and Lee Fixel Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 91 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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