How much does The Lawrence and Carol Saper Foundation give?

The Lawrence and Carol Saper Foundation reported 71 grants totaling $698,135 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 66 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does The Lawrence and Carol Saper Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (52%), Arts & Culture (23%), Health (11%).

Who are The Lawrence and Carol Saper Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Metropolitan Museum of Art ($110k), Whitney Museum of American Art ($80k), Grace Church School ($62k).

Does The Lawrence and Carol Saper Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Lawrence and Carol Saper Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Lawrence and Carol Saper Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Daniel M Neidich & Brooke Garber Foundation.

Where is The Lawrence and Carol Saper Foundation based?

The Lawrence and Carol Saper Foundation is based in NY.

The Lawrence and Carol Saper Foundation

The Lawrence and Carol Saper Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$698k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$250k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.9MArts & Culture$841kHealth$412kEducation$211kInternational$80kReligion$77kPublic Benefit$25kCommunity Improvement$15kOther$0

02FY2024 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k51 grants · $139k
$10k–50k19 grants · $309k
$250k+1 grant · $250k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$14M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
TO JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND	$250,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART	$30,000
WORLD MONUMENTS FUND	$25,000
SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART	$25,000
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART - IN HONOR OF SARAH SUZUKI	$25,000
THE WINDWARD SCHOOL	$20,000
SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM - TO SUPPORT MEGAN FONTANELLA'S PROJECTS	$20,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART	$20,000
Individual grant recipient	$17,585
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF MOUNT SINAI	$15,000
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY - IN HONOR OF KAREN ONEL MD TO SUPPORT PEDIAT	$15,000
ECFS FIELDSTON ORANGE FUND	$15,000
GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL	$11,500
THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM	$10,000
DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC - IN HONOR OF NATHALIE DE GUNZBURG	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.3M · 69 repeat orgs$567k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$382k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+27%

Still filing today

70%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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

MM
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
4× · 2020–2024 · $110k · revenue +119%
WM
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
4× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +69%
GC
GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL
3× · 2020–2024 · $62k · revenue +19%

Funded once

TM
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART - TO SUPPORT THE MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART D
one grant, 2022 · $20k
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -33%
MELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue +103%

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.

The Neue Galerie New York

Arts & Culture

Museum of the City of New York

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…

Arts & Culture

The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture

American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture

Kadist Collection Manager Inc

Arts & Culture

Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

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.

Arts & Culture

New Museum of Contemporary Art

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.

Arts & Culture

Berggruen Institute

Education

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

Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

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.

Arts & Culture

New York Academy of Art

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.…

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Artis Contemporary Israeli Art Fundinc

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

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership With Children Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

98 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. 98 of the 179 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

96/98

Grantees still filing

68/98

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$1,832,560Other$847,115Arts & Culture$578,486Education$184,500Health$108,530International$47,200Human Services$40,200

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY34.2× affinity27 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 · 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

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 Lawrence and Carol Saper Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lawrence and Carol Saper Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

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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