· Private foundation
The Lori and Mark Fife 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $302k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UJA FEDERATION | $101,800 |
| FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES INC | $100,000 |
| USC SHOAH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE | $40,243 |
| HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERIES | $39,600 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $30,345 |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS | $30,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| MANHANTTAN THEATRE CLUB | $6,000 |
| STUDENT ATHLETE NUTRITION FUND -UNIVERSITY OF PENN | $5,000 |
| BRIDGES BALTIMORE | $5,000 |
| BELEV ECHAD | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE FORUM | $5,000 |
| NEW YORK JUNIOR TENNIS LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| PENN HILLEL | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $144k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% 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.
45 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- FHFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $809k · revenue +2%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC8× · 2018–2025 · $460k · revenue +22%
- SASUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC7× · 2018–2025 · $180k · revenue +132%
Funded once
- SASUCCESS ACADEMY OF CHARTER SCHOOL INCone grant, 2024 · $25k
- JBJanet Burros Memorial Foundationone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -52%
- JBJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +7%
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.
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The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
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Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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The yeshiva university high schools has as its educational mission to teach and perpetuate the values of torah and secular studies. see schedule o.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Janet Burros Memorial 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 32 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 102 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.
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- Who funds SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LITERACY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
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- Who funds SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds BELEV ECHAD INC ↗
- Who funds RUFF HOUSE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK JUNIOR TENNIS LEAGUE INC ↗
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- Who funds Janet Burros Memorial Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FORUM ↗
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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: Jewish Communal Fund · American Express Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Charleigh Charitable Trust · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · The Warburg Pincus Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Lazard Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund
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 Lori and Mark Fife 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.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope 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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