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The Lerer Family 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.

$637k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$706kEducation$631kPhilanthropy$468kHuman Services$367kHousing & Shelter$126kInternational$66kAnimals$61kEmployment$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $185k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $432k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAYO CLINIC$140,000
NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC$100,000
KENNETH B LERER AND KATHERINE R SAILER DAF$64,000
THE BEN AND EMILY LERER CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$64,000
THE LERER MURASKIN CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$64,000
GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE$25,000
RAISEDBY US INC$25,000
ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN$25,000
BANK STREET COLLEGE EDUCATION$10,000
CITY & COUNTRY SCHOOL$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$10,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$10,000
THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION$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 (FY17–24, $502k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TIDES CENTER: $200k → 10%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%FUND FOR THE AGED: $5k → 17%THE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $5k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $57k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $50k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $50k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $35k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $35k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $25k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $10k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $25k → 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

ME
MN
IL
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 18 repeat orgs$624k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
37

Total granted

$1.7M
$362k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+28%

Still filing today

78%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $262k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsPhilanthropyInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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

  • BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $372k · revenue +38%
  • AT
    ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $287k · revenue +70%
  • ER
    EAST RIVER DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $121k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • DM
    DEMOCRACY MATTERS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue ×163 · 46% of their budget
  • SW
    SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • AF
    AMERICANS FOR RESPONSIBLE SOLUTIONS
    one grant, 2018 · $25k

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 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
2
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
3
New York Blood Center Inc

As one of the most preeminent and comprehensive blood centers in theworld, nybc operates under a four-part mission. for more information,see sch. o and part iii, 4a-c.

Health
4
Manhattanville University

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

Education
5
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
6
Nyu Langone Health System

The board adopted mission statement is: the corporation is operated exclusively for the benefit of nyu langone hospitals and its affiliated organizations. in this capacity, the corporation, may, in order to improve the health and welfare…

Health
7
Nyu Langone Hospitals

The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…

Health
8
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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9
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
10
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
11
Long Island Community Hospital At Nyu Langone Health

The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…

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12
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc and the most unlike its peers is Limb Kind 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 backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Community FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and ShelterCancer Support ServicesJewish Community Organizati…Policy Research and AdvocacyChristian Youth CampsAffordable Housing Developm…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Youth Sports ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …
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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr19%32%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%35%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/55
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,705

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

54 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. 54 of the 73 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
36/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MAYO CLINIC — $290,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICTHE CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $81,239 · OtherTHE CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INCRASIEDBY US INC — $75,000 · OtherRASIEDBY US INCTHE LERER MURASKIN CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $64,000 · OtherTHE LERER MURASKIN CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDTHE BEN AND EMILY LERER CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $64,000 · OtherTHE BEN AND EMILY LERER CHARITABLE GIFT F…KENNETH B LERER AND KATHERINE R SAILER DAF — $64,000 · OtherKENNETH B LERER AND KATHERINE R SAILER DA…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $36,000 · Other+38 more — $307,900 · Other+38 moreASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN — $286,800 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION TO BENEFI…TIDES CENTER — $200,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER+3 more — $15,000 · Human ServicesBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION — $372,000 · EducationBANK STREET COLLEG…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $20,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $20,000 · EducationRIDGEFIELD ACADEMY INC — $15,000 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $200,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBY…MAYO CLINIC — $140,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC+5 more — $34,000 · Health+5 moreRAISEDBY US INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $45,000 · PhilanthropySAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $4,500 · PhilanthropyDEMOCRACY MATTERS FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Civil RightsGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $25,000 · Civil RightsHUMANITY IN ACTION INC — $5,000 · Civil RightsEAST RIVER DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC — $121,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$982,139Human Services$501,800Education$428,000Health$374,000Philanthropy$144,500Civil Rights$130,000Housing & Shelter$121,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION — $372,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN — $286,800 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $140,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST RIVER DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC — $121,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDEMOCRACY MATTERS FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetTHE CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $81,239 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetRAISEDBY US INC — $50,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $36,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANIMAL NATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRIDGEFIELD ACADEMY INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL LEGAL PARTNERSHIP INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLimb Kind Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA Public Theatre Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetKABUKI SYNDROME FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANITY IN ACTION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFUND FOR THE AGED INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEAST Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTREPID MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLegacy Youth Tennis And Education Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWestchester Land Trust Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK POPS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CARES INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECTION 16H GROUP — $1,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetREISENBACH PHILANTHROPIES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $1,000 over 1y, 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.

Jewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Ayco Charitable F…The Hyde and Watson F…National Philanthropi…The Bessemer Giving F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Charities Aid Foundat…
Jewish Communal FundNY16.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Lerer Family 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 · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 73 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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