· Private foundation
The Lautenberg 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | $60,500 |
| EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST | $13,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS OF MAJOR AMERICAN JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ | $6,500 |
| BNAI VAIL | $5,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH | $5,000 |
| JEWISH BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS | $4,000 |
| EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| TEMPLE BAT YAM | $3,000 |
| HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| THE PROCTOR FUND | $2,500 |
| SILENT SPRING INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| TEMPLE SHIR TIKVA | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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
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.
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.
64 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TMTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL6× · 2018–2023 · $450k · revenue +58%
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED7× · 2017–2023 · $310k · revenue +202%
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI7× · 2017–2024 · $191k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- LCLAUTENBERG CANCER RESEARCH CENTERone grant, 2021 · $150k
- UOUJA OF GREATER METROWEST NJone grant, 2017 · $24k
- NCNETWORK CONTAGION RESEARCH INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +43%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
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…
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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.
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 49 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
57 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. 57 of the 96 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds HAMILTON PARTNERSHIP FOR PATERSON INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds VAIL MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION FOR JEWISH PHILANTHROPY OF UPPER FAIRFIELD COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NEWARK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK CONTAGION RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS OF MAJOR JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS ↗
- Who funds JESPY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOVIET JEWRY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Florin Family Foundation Inc · The Russell Berrie Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · National Philanthropic Trust · Columbia Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable 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 Lautenberg Foundation 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.
- Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc — 53% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Eva's Village Inc — 19% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Silent Spring Institute Inc — 12% of income from government
- Hamilton Partnership for Paterson Inc — 8% of income from government
- Jespy House Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Fessenden School — 0% of income from government
- Pine Crest Preparatory School Inc — 0% of income from government
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.