· Private foundation
The Lawrence and Carol Saper 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k51 grants · $139k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $309k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TO JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND | $250,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $30,000 |
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART - IN HONOR OF SARAH SUZUKI | $25,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $25,000 |
| WORLD MONUMENTS FUND | $25,000 |
| SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM - TO SUPPORT MEGAN FONTANELLA'S PROJECTS | $20,000 |
| THE WINDWARD SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,585 |
| ECFS FIELDSTON ORANGE FUND | $15,000 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF MOUNT SINAI | $15,000 |
| HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY - IN HONOR OF KAREN ONEL MD TO SUPPORT PEDIAT | $15,000 |
| GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL | $11,500 |
| UJA FEDERATION OF NY - ANNUAL FUND | $10,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY OPHTHALMOLOGY - NEARNESS OF YOU - IN HONOR OF SIDDHARTH | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 28 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k 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
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART4× · 2020–2024 · $110k · revenue +119%
- WMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART4× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +69%
- GCGRACE CHURCH SCHOOL3× · 2020–2024 · $62k · revenue +19%
Funded once
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -33%- TMTHE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART - TO SUPPORT THE MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART Done grant, 2022 · $20k
MELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue +103%
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.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…
Artis is an independent nonprofit organization that supports contemporary artists from israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social and political questions to inspire reflection and debate. www.artis.art
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership With Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Tom Gold Dance Foundation 51 West 81ST Street. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
98 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. 98 of the 179 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 JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds YAMBA MALAWI INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ART RESEARCH AND ALLIANCES INC ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LENOX HILL BIKUR CHOLIM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds VENETIAN HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WINDWARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds MELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ART PRODUCTION FUND INC ↗
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 Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Daniel M Neidich & Brooke Garber Foundation · Ag Foundation · Arison Arts Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Robert and Joyce Menschel Family Fdn · The Daniel and Estrellita Brodsky Family Foundation · Imperfect Family Foundation · J & Ar Foundation · The Fine and Greenwald Foundation · Nash Family 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 Lawrence and Carol Saper 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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