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The Ronald & Jo Carole Lauder Foundation at a glance

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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.

$826k
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$200k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.2MEducation$515kCommunity Improvement$400kInternational$290kHealth$257kPhilanthropy$148kYouth Development$127kEmployment$125kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $309k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $479k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$19k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CARA$25,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL MUSEUM$25,000
GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER$25,000
JAZZ FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$25,000
MoMA PS1$25,000
THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM$25,000
INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL$20,000
THE 92ND STREET Y$18,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CE: $10k → 7%ALL FOR THE EAST END: $300k → 7%ALL FOR THE EAST END: $100k → 7%FRIENDS OF GEORGICA POND FOUNDATION: $10k → 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
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
DE
DC
TX
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 38 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
77

Total granted

$2.5M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+8%

Still filing today

79%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TU
    Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    3× · 2022–2024 · $306k · revenue +13%
  • TC
    The Cara Program
    3× · 2022–2024 · $125k · revenue +79%
  • AMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • PBS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +203%
  • CN
    CINDERS NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • AF
    All For the East End
    one grant, 2021 · $125k
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
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
The Pierpont Morgan Library

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.

Education
4
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
5
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
6
Museum of Modern Art

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)

Arts & Culture
7
Museum of the City of New York

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Berggruen Institute
Education
9
New York Studio School

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)

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10
The Frick Collection

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.

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11
New York Academy of Art

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.…

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12
Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harlem Stage Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 125 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/58
Grantees still filing
38/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FDN FOR ART PRESERVATION IN EMBASSI: $611,998 · OtherFDN FOR ART PRESERVATION IN EMBASSICINDERS NEW YORK INC: $150,000 · OtherCINDERS NEW YORK INCUS DEPARTMENT OF STATE: $150,000 · OtherUS DEPARTMENT OF STATEAll For the East End: $125,000 · OtherThe Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity: $100,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherAMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH: $100,000 · Other+73 more: $1,067,390 · Other+73 morePBS FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Arts & CulturePBS FOUNDATIONTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROG…GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureGUILD HALL OF EAST HAM…NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION I…STORM KING ART CENTER: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSTORM KING ART CENTERThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $50,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holo…DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $49,000 · Arts & CultureDIA CENTER FOR THE ART…SESAME WORKSHOP: $45,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $40,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+15 more: $129,500 · Arts & Culture+15 moreALL FOR THE EAST END INC: $400,000 · Human ServicesALL FOR TH…+2 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $306,410 · Education+5 more: $14,000 · EducationInternational Rescue Committee INC: $75,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ACADEMY IN BERLIN: $50,000 · InternationalAMERICA-ISRAEL FRIENDSHIP LEAGUE INC: $10,000 · InternationalThe American-Scandinavian Foundation: $5,000 · InternationalThe Cara Program: $125,000 · EmploymentTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $60,000 · HealthMELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthTRACYS KIDS INC: $10,000 · HealthNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Health
Other$2,504,388Arts & Culture$884,000Human Services$420,000Education$320,410International$140,000Employment$125,000Health$101,000

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 budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $306,410 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Cara Program: $125,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH: $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC: $90,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTORM KING ART CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN BERLIN: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $49,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSESAME WORKSHOP: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $40,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL: $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetJazz Foundation of America Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetMELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $19,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DRAWING CENTER INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTRACYS KIDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF GEORGICA POND FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICA-ISRAEL FRIENDSHIP LEAGUE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Ballroom Cultural Arts Foundation: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe American-Scandinavian Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE HISTORIC DISTRICTS INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDWIGHT SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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.

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 FundThe Ford FoundationThe New York Communit…Anna-Maria and Stephe…The Andy Warhol Found…National Philanthropi…The Goldman Sachs Cha…J & Ar FoundationTr Ua 06162003The Ayco Charitable F…Tides FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…
Jewish Communal FundNY21.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ronald & Jo Carole Lauder Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ronald & Jo Carole Lauder Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    20report 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Ronald & Jo Carole Lauder Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Ronald & Jo Carole Lauder Foundation 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 125 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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