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The Lazard Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Lazard Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
437
Grants FY2024still arriving
37
States reached
$670k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$3.9MFood & Nutrition$417kInternational$390kHuman Services$340kHealth$324kHousing & Shelter$299kCivil Rights$224kCrime & Legal$218kOther$0
02FY2024 · 437 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k431 grants · $528k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $350k
  • $250k+1 grant · $670k
$500
Median grant
37
States reached
$10k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
New Visions for Public Schools Inc$670,100
YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK INC$100,000
FUTURES AND OPTIONS INC$100,000
New Door Ventures$100,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$50,298
EMPOWER-EMERGING MARKETS FOUNDATION$11,750
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$7,825
On Site Opera Inc$7,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$6,866
St Jude Children's Research Hospital$6,234
CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$6,000
Hope for New York$6,000
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERS USA INC$5,900
BARD COLLEGE$5,500
SHARSHERET INC$5,468
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $481k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Minuteman Senior Services: $2k → 8%Minnesota Recovery Connection: $2k → 14%THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES: $2k → 12%Meals on Wheels North Central Texas Inc: $1k → 10%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 11%School of Humanity and Awareness Inc: $2k → 13%DZI FOUNDATION A COLORADO NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $3k → 7%Cornerstone Family Programs: $2k → 4%THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES: $1k → 12%SOUTHWEST VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION INC: $1k → 11%DZI FOUNDATION A COLORADO NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $2k → 7%WHITE PONY EXPRESS: $3k → 9%Forestdale Inc: $2k → 13%LOAVES & FISHES INC: $2k → 10%Lone Mountain Childrens Center Inc: $5k → 10%Red Hook Initiative Inc: $2k → 20%Lone Mountain Childrens Center Inc: $3k → 10%Lone Mountain Childrens Center Inc: $3k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $5k → 10%RIP Medical Debt: $1k → 9%ADAPTIVE DESIGN ASSOCIATION INC: $5k → 17%American National Red Cross: $2k → 14%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $3k → 10%World Food Program USA: $2k → 14%A Better Chicago: $5k → 14%A Better Chicago: $3k → 14%A Better Chicago: $1k → 14%Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of St Paul & Mpls: $2k → 11%Snack & Friends Inc: $3k → 17%YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK INC: $100k → 17%Children's Aid: $75k → 17%Children's Aid: $66k → 17%Children's Aid: $63k → 17%Children's Aid: $5k → 17%THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $4k → 17%Children's Aid: $4k → 17%Children's Aid: $1k → 17%Covenant House: $3k → 17%Bowery Residents Committee Inc: $2k → 17%Covenant House: $1k → 17%Street Soccer USA: $6k → 17%Street Soccer USA: $4k → 17%EXHALE TO INHALE INC: $5k → 17%Street Soccer USA Inc: $2k → 17%Hetrick-Martin Institute Inc: $1k → 17%National Urban League Inc: $3k → 17%The Children's Aid Society: $25k → 17%Avail NYC: $3k → 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

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IL
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OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
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CA
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CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
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NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.3M · 470 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

470 repeat relationships: 205 still active in FY2024, 265 since wound down; 221 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

470
794

Total granted

$5.3M
$419k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+14%

Still filing today

94%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalAnimalsOther
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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $242k · revenue +88%
  • GA
    GOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING
    5× · 2020–2024 · $170k · revenue +159%
  • CITY HARVEST INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $150k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC
    one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue -33%
  • MT
    MENTOR The National Mentoring Program
    one grant, 2019 · $13k
  • SF
    San Francisco Education Fundgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +69%
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.

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Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
University of New Haven

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…

Education
3
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
4
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
United States Naval Institute

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.

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7
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
8
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
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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University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
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Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Silversource Inc. 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

1377 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. 1377 of the 1,511 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
196
Early backer (in before they grew)
1348/1377
Grantees still filing
887/1377
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

New Vision Public Schools: $2,369,200 · OtherNew Vision Public SchoolsGOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING: $170,250 · Other+101 more: $811,371 · Other+101 moreNEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $670,100 · EducationNEW VISIONS FOR PUBLI…FUTURES AND OPTIONS INC: $100,820 · EducationFUTURES AND OPTIONS I…+52 more: $384,888 · Education+52 moreTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $242,275 · Human ServicesYouth Justice Network Inc: $100,000 · Human Services+11 more: $78,016 · Human ServicesSave The Children Federation Inc: $122,881 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $50,298 · InternationalEMPOWER-THE EMERGING MARKETS FOUNDATION: $48,247 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $17,728 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $16,033 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $13,738 · International+9 more: $56,336 · InternationalCITY HARVEST INC: $150,269 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $131,366 · Food & Nutrition+6 more: $29,446 · Food & NutritionNEW DOOR VENTURES FKA GOLDEN GATE COMMUNITY INC: $252,500 · Housing & ShelterALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $11,475 · Housing & ShelterWARRICK DUNN CHARITIES INC: $10,500 · Housing & ShelterNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $190,121 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $28,670 · Civil Rights+2 more: $9,785 · Civil Rights
Other$3,350,821Education$1,155,808Human Services$420,291International$325,261Food & Nutrition$311,081Housing & Shelter$274,475Civil Rights$228,576

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $670,100 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNEW DOOR VENTURES FKA GOLDEN GATE COMMUNITY INC: $252,500 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $242,275 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $190,121 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING: $170,250 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $150,269 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $131,366 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $122,881 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFUTURES AND OPTIONS INC: $100,820 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetYouth Justice Network Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $50,298 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMPOWER-THE EMERGING MARKETS FOUNDATION: $48,247 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Petey Greene Program Inc: $46,450 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBRAVEN INC: $43,150 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $28,670 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIMENTOR INC: $25,866 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $24,185 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $21,021 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $17,728 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSMS RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $16,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $16,033 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $15,953 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $15,740 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOSS PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetNATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION: $14,975 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR NEW YORK: $14,028 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $13,756 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLINK EDUCATION PARTNERS INC: $13,750 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $13,738 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $13,356 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $13,040 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $12,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTREET SOCCER USA INC: $12,431 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $11,475 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $11,475 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $11,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE: $11,079 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMarquette University: $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWARRICK DUNN CHARITIES INC: $10,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $10,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,189 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $10,044 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSON OF A SAINT: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLONE MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $10,000 over 3y, 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.

The Hyde and Watson F…Viking Global Foundat…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Tapestry Foundati…Pinkerton FoundationSelect Equity Group F…S&P Global Foundation…The Coach Foundation …First Eagle Investmen…American Express Foun…The New York Communit…Smbc Global Foundatio…
The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ50.6× affinity66 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Viking Global Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Tapestry Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · Select Equity Group Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · The Coach Foundation Inc · First Eagle Investments Foundation · American Express Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Smbc Global Foundation Inc

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 Lazard Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lazard Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • The Petey Greene Program Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology: 12% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Soundwaters Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • Beacon Academy Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Kipp Team and Family Schools Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
49report 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Lazard Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Lazard Charitable Foundation 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 1511 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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