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Anne Claire Lester Foundation Inc

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.

$99k
Granted FY2021
60
Itemized grants FY2021
59
Organizations funded FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$83k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$525
Largest grant, FY2021
$12,000
States reached, FY2021
12
Total assets, FY2021
$1.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$671kEducation$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kHealth$11kReligion$9kInternational$8kFood & Nutrition$6kCivil Rights$4kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 24 grantees

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($58k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Anne Claire Lester Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFood Bank for New York City: $3,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York City Rescue Mission: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding Westchester Inc: $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation: $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSimon Wiesenthal Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of House of Hope Inc: $900 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNational Jewish Outreach Program In: $850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMarc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Negro College Fund Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSierra Club: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeneral Israel Orphan Home for Girls: $450 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChebra Agudas Achim Chesed Shel Emeth Hebrew Free Burial Associationinc: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House: $425 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Service Organizations Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalvary Fund Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDorot Inc: $375 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Mutual of America FoundationNY13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Anne Claire Lester Foundation Inc

How much does Anne Claire Lester Foundation Inc give?
Anne Claire Lester Foundation Inc reported 60 itemized grants totaling $82,800, out of $98,575 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing.
What does Anne Claire Lester Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2021, its largest causes are Philanthropy (87%), Education (2%), Public Safety & Disaster (2%).
Who are Anne Claire Lester Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2021: Food Bank for New York City ($3k), Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust ($3k), New York City Rescue Mission ($3k).
Does Anne Claire Lester Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Anne Claire Lester Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mutual of America Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
Where is Anne Claire Lester Foundation Inc based?
Anne Claire Lester Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 60 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $90k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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