· Private foundation
The Lebensfeld 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $655k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $900k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $200,000 |
| PRINCETON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| YALE LAW SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| BANCROFT NEUROHEALTH | $100,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| RAMAZ SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC | $50,000 |
| TRENTON AREA SOUP KITCHEN | $45,000 |
| ST GREGORY THE GREAT ACADEMY | $45,000 |
| CAPE ELIZABETH LAND TRUST | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| HOMEFRONT INC | $35,000 |
| AMERICAN JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $940k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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 +27% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 4 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
The Trustees of Princeton University5× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +8%- BABANCROFT A NEW JERSEY NON PROFIT CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $800k · revenue +108%
- NFNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +22%
Funded once
TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +20%- SOSCHOOL OF THE AMERICAN BALLETone grant, 2017 · $100k
PRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +16%
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 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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
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.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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 The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies and the most unlike its peers is The Renfrew Center 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.
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 53 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 105 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 The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds BANCROFT A NEW JERSEY NON PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC ↗
- Who funds TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Cape Elizabeth Land Trust ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN FOUNDATION FOR THE HOLY LAND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds LAKE AGAWAM CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRUCE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE JEREMY FUND ↗
- Who funds DEBBIE MARKS LAKE FOUNDATION ↗
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 Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Meryl & Charles Witmer Charitable Foundation · Robertson Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Lebensfeld 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Interfaith Caregivers of Greater Mercer County Inc — 18% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- Rabbinical College of America — 5% of income from government
- Bruce Museum 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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