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The Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme Fdn at a glance

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The Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme Fdn

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.

$143k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$250kArts & Culture$148kHealth$77kInternational$10kAnimals$8kHuman Services$6kFood & Nutrition$5kCivil Rights$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARNEGIE HALL$105,000
MAESTRA MUSIC$20,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCATION$5,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN$2,500
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK$2,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$2,500
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$2,500
THE LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY DONOR SERVICES$2,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%MUSIC FOR ALL SEASONS INC: $2k → 10%THE NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $1k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%THE NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%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
NV
NJ
CT
CA
UT
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
FL
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$207k · 19 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
13

Total granted

$207k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+22%

Still filing today

63%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthInternationalPublic BenefitAnimalsOther
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

  • TC
    THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $113k · revenue +13%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $12k · revenue +145%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • LS
    LATIN SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME INC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -38%
  • TL
    THE LA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • RO
    REGENTS OF UC-DIVISION OF NEPHROLOGY
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
4
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
5
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
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
8
Jewish War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…

Arts & Culture
9
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
10
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
11
Medtech Innovator

Medtech innovator organizes and runs a global competition and virtual accelerator for medical device, digital health, and diagnostic startup companies.

Education
12
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canine Companions for Independence Inc; the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

21 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. 21 of the 34 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UCLA FOUNDATION: $250,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $113,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATIONMAESTRA MUSIC INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMAESTRA MUSIC INC+2 more: $4,500 · Arts & CultureKEEP MEMORY ALIVE: $22,500 · OtherKEEP MEMORY ALIVEALZHEIMER'S ASSOCATION: $11,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCA…LATIN SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME INC: $10,000 · OtherLATIN SONGWRITERS …THE LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY DONOR SERVICES: $7,500 · OtherTHE LEUKEMIA AND L…THE LA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $5,000 · OtherTHE LA CHILDREN'S …REGENTS OF UC-DIVISION OF NEPHROLOGY: $5,000 · OtherREGENTS OF UC-DIVI…LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $5,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGION…CEDARS-SINAI NEONATOLOGY FUND: $3,000 · Other+9 more: $13,100 · Other+9 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $12,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC: $2,000 · HealthNAMI National: $1,000 · HealthTOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthSave The Children Federation Inc: $5,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 · InternationalCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesNathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc: $2,000 · Human ServicesMUSIC FOR ALL SEASONS INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $5,000 · AnimalsPets for Vets Inc: $1,000 · Public Benefit
Education$250,000Arts & Culture$137,500Other$82,100Health$16,000International$10,000Human Services$7,500Animals$5,000Public Benefit$1,000

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 budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $113,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAESTRA MUSIC INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLATIN SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC FOR ALL SEASONS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPets for Vets Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI National: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Music for All Seasons Inc: 41% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Children's Inn at Nih Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 34 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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