· Private foundation
The Ronald & Jo Carole Lauder Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $309k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $479k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FDN FOR ART PRESERVATION IN EMBASSI | $200,000 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY | $78,530 |
| US DEPARTMENT OF STATE | $50,000 |
| GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN ACADEMY IN BERLIN | $50,000 |
| AMERICA'S PROMISE ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL | $30,000 |
| JAZZ FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $25,000 |
| GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER | $25,000 |
| THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM | $25,000 |
| CARA | $25,000 |
| MoMA PS1 | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| THE 92ND STREET Y | $18,000 |
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 (FY22–23, $420k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +13% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 10 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k 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
- TUTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education3× · 2022–2024 · $306k · revenue +13%
- TCThe Cara Program3× · 2022–2024 · $125k · revenue +79%
AMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +14%
Funded once
PBS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +203%- CNCINDERS NEW YORK INCone grant, 2023 · $150k
- AFAll For the East Endone grant, 2021 · $125k
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 museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…
The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harlem Stage Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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 48 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 127 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 ALL FOR THE EAST END INC ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Cara Program ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STORM KING ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY IN BERLIN ↗
- Who funds DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SESAME WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC ↗
- Who funds Jazz Foundation of America Inc ↗
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 · The Ford Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Inc C/O Joel E Sammet & Co LLP · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · J & Ar Foundation · Tr Ua 06162003 · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Tides Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
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 Ronald & Jo Carole Lauder 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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