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The Lillian & Ira N Langsan 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.

$37k
Granted FY2023
9
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2023.

Food & Nutrition$20kPhilanthropy$20kHousing & Shelter$10kInternational$8kArts & Culture$6kEnvironment$6kHuman Services$3k
02FY2023 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE DOE FUND$5,000
METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH$5,000
GODS LOVE WE DELIVER$5,000
FOOD BANK OF NYC$5,000
THE NORTH STAR FUND$5,000
TEAM RUBICON$3,000
AMERICAN SONGBOOK ASSOCIATION$3,000
GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND$3,000
NEW YORK FOUNDLING$3,000
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 (FY23–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$54k · 6 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
1

Total granted

$54k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-7%
+12%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Housing & ShelterFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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

  • MC
    METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH
    2× · 2022–2023 · $10k
  • THE DOE FUND INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue -13%
  • GL
    GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK FOUNDLING
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +12%
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
Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York Inc

To lead a network of partners to alleviate hunger, prevent food waste, and nourish the communities we serve. our vision is that all people have the nutritious food they need to thrive.

Food & Nutrition
2
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
3
Women First Inc

Women first invests in grassroots initiatives driven by women and girls in developing economies that sustainably advance their lives.

International
4
Food Bank Association of New York State

The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…

Food & Nutrition
5
New York Restoration Project

New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…

Environment
6
Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & Northern New Jersey Inc

Goodwill nynj empowers people with disabilities and other barriers to employment to gain independence through the power of work. goodwill nynj provided services to more than 11,087 adults in fiscal year 2025 through all programs.

Employment
7
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
8
United Way of New York City

Uwnyc works with a coalition of trusted partners to unite community power with citywide possibility. together, we meet today's most urgent needs while building transformative solutions for tomorrow - striving for health, opportunity, and…

Philanthropy
9
New York Apartment Association Inc

Nyaa provides services to landlords including computerized rent registration of rent stabilized apartments with the new york state division of housing and community renewal in compliance with nys & nyc laws & regulations.

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10
The Way Back Inc

To provide rehabilitative housing services and support to help people with psychiatric disabilities reintegrate into the community.the agency provides rehabilitative housing services and staff support as a primary mechanism for achieving…

Human Services
11
The Giving Back Fund

To improve lives by expanding the number of people and the amount of resources dedicated to giving.

Philanthropy
12
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Doe Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Songbook Association 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
2/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH: $10,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISHNORTH STAR FUND INC: $10,000 · OtherNORTH STAR FUND INCTHE DOE FUND INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE DOE FUND IN…GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionGOD'S LOVE WE D…FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $10,000 · Community ImprovementFOOD BANK FOR N…TEAM RUBICON INC: $8,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTEAM RUBICON…AMERICAN SONGBOOK ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN …GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $6,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL GR…NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $3,000 · Human Services
Other$20,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Community Improvement$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$8,000Arts & Culture$6,000Environment$6,000Human Services$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE DOE FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH STAR FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SONGBOOK ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDLING: $3,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Lillian & Ira N Langsan Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lillian & Ira N Langsan Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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 Lillian & Ira N Langsan 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 9 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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