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The Lawrence Katzman Charitable 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.

$640k
Granted FY2024still arriving
71
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

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

International$478kHealth$189kArts & Culture$176kEducation$150kHousing & Shelter$133kRecreation & Sports$113kEnvironment$107kHuman Services$93kOther$0
02FY2024 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k50 grants · $170k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $365k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
$5,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HIAS$55,000
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES (DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS)$50,000
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$36,494
BROWN UNIVERSITY$34,666
BIKE MS (SHIRLEY WE RIDE)$30,000
THE PUBLIC THEATER$27,500
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$25,000
INSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS$25,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$25,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$25,000
RAZOM FOR UKRAINE$20,000
CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK$20,000
LINCOLN CENTER$15,000
CHARITY WATER$11,000
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORP$10,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GALLOP NYC: $8k → 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $25k → 14%GALLOP NYC: $5k → 13%ANSOB CENTER FOR REFUGEES: $5k → 13%BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE & RECREATION CENTER: $1k → 7%ANSOB CENTER FOR REFUGEES: $3k → 13%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $5k → 17%URBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $4k → 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

VT
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
RI
CA
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
TX
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 49 repeat orgs$237k to everyone else

49 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
23

Total granted

$1.4M
$129k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+4%

Still filing today

73%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEnvironmentEducationOther

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

  • NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $65k · revenue +11%
  • NY
    NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $53k · revenue +43%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +188%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • SN
    ST NICHOLAS UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • S
    SUPERHUMANS
    one grant, 2022 · $10k

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
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
5
Dc Bilingual Public Charter School

The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.

Education
6
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
7
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
8
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
9
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
10
Workforce Professionals Training Institute

Wpti's mission is to build the capacities of people, programs, and organizations that provide job training, placement, and career guidance for individuals and to advocate for policies that promote economic opportunities for all.

Employment
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
We Are Family Foundation

The we are family foundation celebrates the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that inspire and educate people about mutual respect, understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bni Foundation. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…Environmental Conservation …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Food Banks and PantriesCancer Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersDevelopmental Disabilities …Independent K-12 SchoolsDance Arts OrganizationsImmigrant Worker SupportJewish Community Organizati…Policy Research and Advocacy
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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%42%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/69
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,496

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

68 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. 68 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/68
Grantees still filing
35/68
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $113,542 · OtherCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INCMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES (DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS) — $100,000 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES (DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS)INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORP — $70,750 · OtherINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPINSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS — $50,000 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARSBIKE MS (SHIRLEY WE RIDE) — $30,000 · OtherCARTOONIST SOCIETY — $30,000 · OtherCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $50,000 · OtherCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INCBROWN UNIVERSITY — $54,666 · OtherBROWN UNIVERSITYCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $38,000 · Other+48 more — $326,173 · Other+48 moreHIAS INC — $200,000 · InternationalHIAS INCRAZOM INC — $100,000 · InternationalRAZOM INCWORLD VISION INC — $60,000 · InternationalWORLD VISION INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $37,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC+4 more — $17,581 · InternationalNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $52,500 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureBROADWAY FOR ALL — $25,150 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $2,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $64,934 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $35,000 · HealthBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Health+1 more — $2,000 · HealthOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $55,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $27,500 · EnvironmentWORLD INFORMATION TRANSFER INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $5,150 · EnvironmentRock Creek Conservancy Inc — $5,000 · Environment+1 more — $250 · EnvironmentWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $21,000 · Human ServicesGIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC — $12,500 · Human ServicesTHE ANSOB CENTER FOR REFUGEES INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesVOGEL ALCOVE — $5,000 · Human ServicesURBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE — $4,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesThe Trustees of Princeton University — $30,000 · EducationWellesley College — $17,500 · EducationDALTON SCHOOLS INC — $15,000 · EducationTHE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL — $15,000 · Education+2 more — $2,010 · Education
Other$863,131International$415,081Arts & Culture$140,150Health$111,934Environment$102,900Human Services$81,000Education$79,510

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHIAS INC — $200,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $113,542 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRAZOM INC — $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $64,934 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $54,666 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $52,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $38,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $37,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY FOR ALL — $25,150 over 3y, 10% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College — $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGENERATION CITIZEN INC — $15,113 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDALTON SCHOOLS INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC — $10,174 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriendship Place — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANSOB CENTER FOR REFUGEES INC — $7,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSPARROW CLUBS USA — $6,583 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $5,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUNFLOWER NETWORK CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL VOLUNTEERS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRock Creek Conservancy Inc — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHINGHAM SPORTS PARTNERSHIP — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR AID RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

The Ford FoundationOpen Society InstituteThe New York Communit…Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Morgan Stanley Global…T Rowe Price Program …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…The Chicago Community…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
The Ford FoundationNY15.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Open Society Institute · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Katzman Charitable 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Rock Creek Conservancy Inc — 60% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
  • Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.

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How do I get to The Lawrence Katzman Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Lawrence Katzman Charitable 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 96 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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