· Private foundation
The Lazard Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k431 grants · $528k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $350k
- $250k+1 grant · $670k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| New Visions for Public Schools Inc | $670,100 |
| New Door Ventures | $100,000 |
| FUTURES AND OPTIONS INC | $100,000 |
| YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK INC | $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 |
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 (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 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 +25% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY6× · 2019–2024 · $242k · revenue +88%
- GAGOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING5× · 2020–2024 · $170k · revenue +159%
CITY HARVEST INC6× · 2019–2024 · $150k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- TNTHE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INCone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue -25%
- MTMENTOR The National Mentoring Programone grant, 2019 · $13k
- SFSan Francisco Education Fundgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +69%
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and 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.
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 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% 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.
1376 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. 1376 of the 1,511 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DOOR VENTURES FKA GOLDEN GATE COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds FUTURES AND OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Justice Network Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER-THE EMERGING MARKETS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Petey Greene Program Inc ↗
- Who funds BRAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds IMENTOR INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SMS RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OSS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds LINK EDUCATION PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds Sharsheret Inc ↗
- Who funds SHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds STREET SOCCER USA INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER 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: 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
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 Lazard Charitable 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.
- 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
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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