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The Lee and Cheryl Lasher Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$294k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$99k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$348kReligion$307kPhilanthropy$296kEducation$100kHealth$73kHuman Services$64kHousing & Shelter$27kPublic Benefit$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k31 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $99k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$99,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NJ JFNNF$36,000
CONGREGATION AHAVATH TORAH$29,000
THE KOBY MANDALL FOUNDATION$19,800
ETZ CHAIM BENEVOLENT FUND$15,000
JEWISH VOTERS UNITE$15,000
HALACHA EDUCATION CENTER$10,000
PARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES$5,000
EAST HILL SYNAGOGUE$5,000
ONE ISRAEL FUND$5,000
PROJECT EZRAH NEEDS INC$3,600
CHABAD OF ENGLEWOOD$3,600
SINAI SCHOOLS$3,600
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY$3,600
CHABAD OF HACKENSACK$3,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 9%RELIEF RESOURCES: $5k → 20%RELIEF RESOURCES: $5k → 20%RELIEF RESOURCES: $5k → 20%RELIEF RESOURCES: $4k → 20%RELIEF RESOURCES: $4k → 20%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $1k → 7%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES OF NORTHERN NJ: $2k → 7%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $1k → 7%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $1k → 7%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $1k → 7%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

IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CA
MD
KS
DC
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 54 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
26

Total granted

$1.1M
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+37%

Still filing today

54%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationHuman ServicesReligionHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CF
    Central Fund of Israel
    4× · 2018–2024 · $56k · revenue +145%
  • PE
    Project Ezrah Needs Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +106%
  • RR
    RELIEF RESOURCES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $22k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • JB
    JEWISH BOOK TRUST INC
    one grant, 2021 · $13k
  • TN
    THE NE'EMH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • GE
    GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +35%
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.

1
Sherit Isroel
—
2
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
3
University of Judaism Foundation
—
4
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
5
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
6
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
7
American Friends of Torat Eliyahu
Philanthropy
8
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
9
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
10
American Friends of Neveh Zion

To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel

Religion
11
The Shalem Foundation

To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.

Crime & Legal
12
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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

47 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. 47 of the 95 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
35/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NJ (JFNNF): $257,100 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NJ (JFNNF)CONGREGATION AHAVATH TORAH: $138,200 · OtherCONGREGATION AHAVATH TORAHPADRES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES: $45,000 · OtherPADRES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIESSINAI SCHOOLS: $30,200 · Other+50 more: $272,510 · Other+50 morePEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $111,500 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWME…THE KOBY MANDELL FOUNDATION INC: $67,300 · PhilanthropyTHE KOBY MANDELL F…Project Ezrah Needs Inc: $32,200 · PhilanthropyProject Ezrah Need…Central Fund of Israel: $56,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of…Binyamin Fund Inc DBA The Heart of Israel: $19,800 · InternationalBinyamin Fund I…ONE ISRAEL FUND LTD: $19,600 · InternationalONE ISRAEL FUND…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $15,200 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE …AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TENUFA BAKEHILA: $13,850 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIEND…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $8,800 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $6,500 · International+11 more: $39,150 · International+11 moreMORIAH SCHOOL OF ENGLEWOOD: $21,000 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $18,050 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SULAMOT CORP: $15,400 · EducationBEN PORAT YOSEF INC: $2,800 · Education+2 more: $1,570 · EducationRELIEF RESOURCES INC: $22,200 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $17,300 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $1,800 · Human ServicesEFRAT DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION USA INC: $12,050 · ReligionTZOHAR ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $7,300 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $6,500 · ReligionNATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN: $3,800 · Religion+1 more: $1,000 · ReligionSharsheret Inc: $16,200 · HealthTAMAR FUND INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,500 · HealthThe Halachic Organ Donor Society Inc DBA Ematai: $1,000 · HealthAMUDIM COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $1,000 · Health
Other$743,010Philanthropy$211,000International$178,900Education$58,820Human Services$50,300Religion$30,650Health$19,700

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 budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $111,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KOBY MANDELL FOUNDATION INC: $67,300 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $56,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetProject Ezrah Needs Inc: $32,200 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetRELIEF RESOURCES INC: $22,200 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMORIAH SCHOOL OF ENGLEWOOD: $21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBinyamin Fund Inc DBA The Heart of Israel: $19,800 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetONE ISRAEL FUND LTD: $19,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $18,050 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $17,300 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $16,200 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SULAMOT CORP: $15,400 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $15,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TENUFA BAKEHILA: $13,850 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetEFRAT DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION USA INC: $12,050 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $8,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTZOHAR ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $7,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIRYAM INSTITUTE INC: $6,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMet Council Inc: $6,500 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $6,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $6,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF BERGEN COUNTY: $6,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEZER MIZION: $5,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEMUNAH OF AMERICA INC: $5,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANSCHEI CHESED FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $4,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NISHMAT INC: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN: $3,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAAGALIM INC: $3,750 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBEN PORAT YOSEF INC: $2,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Halachic Organ Donor Society Inc DBA Ematai: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBEN AND ESTHER ROSENBLOOM HILLEL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT UNIVERSITY OF MD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMUDIM COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF PANIM EL PANIM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ERETZ HEMDAH: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENGLEWOOD MIKVAH ASSOCIATION INC: $860 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Frisch School: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMENACHEM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $770 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE KOBY MANDELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds Project Ezrah Needs Inc ↗
  • Who funds RELIEF RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds MORIAH SCHOOL OF ENGLEWOOD ↗
  • Who funds Binyamin Fund Inc DBA The Heart of Israel ↗
  • Who funds ONE ISRAEL FUND LTD ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Sharsheret Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SULAMOT CORP ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TENUFA BAKEHILA ↗
  • Who funds EFRAT DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION USA INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds TZOHAR ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MIRYAM INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Met Council Inc ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF BERGEN COUNTY ↗

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 FundFjcCross River Community…The Daniel E and Joyc…Jewish Federation of …Jewish Community Foun…David & Esther Musche…The Alan and Elisa Pi…The Arthur & Joyce Fe…Jewish Federation of …The Goldman Sachs Cha…Associated Jewish Cha…
Jewish Communal FundNY51.5× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · Cross River Community Foundation · The Daniel E and Joyce G Straus Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · David & Esther Muschel Foundation · The Alan and Elisa Pines Family Foundation Inc · The Arthur & Joyce Fein Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore

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 Lee and Cheryl Lasher Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lee and Cheryl Lasher Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Services of Northern New Jersey Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Frisch School: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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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Find your warmest path to The Lee and Cheryl Lasher Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 95 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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