New York · Nonprofit
LAURI STRAUSS LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION INC
LAURI STRAUSS LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $409,733 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($267,900). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $77k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $410k
- Net assets
- $278k
What Lauri Strauss Leukemia Foundation Inc does
Mission
The foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for leukemia and to supporting bone marrow donor drives and does so by funding and providing grants and honorariums to individual researchers at medical institutions. In addition, the foundation underwrites lectures relating to work being performed in these areas.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Funding and providing grants and honorariums to individual researchers at medical institutions.
$11,250 spentof which $11,250 as grants71% of program spendingThe foundation produces a newsletter to advise their contributors and the public as to the efforts the foundation is making to find a cure for lukemia.
$4,506 spentof which $4,506 as grants$42,160 earned by the program29% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,756.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $295k to $367k (+25%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
132% of LAURI STRAUSS LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Laura Knepper
Exec director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $35k → $41k.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of LAURI STRAUSS LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
LAURI STRAUSS LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
65% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund LAURI STRAUSS LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 62% · 2019 42% · 2020 63% · 2021 58% · 2022 67% · 2023 61% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
23% of LAURI STRAUSS LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
65% of LAURI STRAUSS LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $141k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $268k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
LAURI STRAUSS LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,898 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,898 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like LAURI STRAUSS LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
21% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LAURI STRAUSS LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION INC?
- LAURI STRAUSS LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $409,733 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($267,900). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LAURI STRAUSS LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $409,733 in grants to LAURI STRAUSS LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAURI STRAUSS LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $267,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAURI STRAUSS LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 14 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing