Missouri · Private foundation
David B Lichtenstein Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $724k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations David B Lichtenstein Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $724k | 59% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $671k | 60% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $650k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $700k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $751k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $609k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $513k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $486k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Municipal Theatre Association of St Louis | $273,250 | 8 | 1% |
| City of Columbia New Century Fund Inc | $271,000 | 5 | 75% |
| Baptist Student Union | $102,000 | 4 | 11% |
| Our Ladys Inn | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Home Sweet Home | $25,500 | 4 | 1% |
| First Chance for Children | $23,500 | 3 | 4% |
| Nurses for Newborns | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Community Partnership | $16,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Disability Resource Association Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Faith Through Fire Inc | $13,828 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
David B Lichtenstein Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Veterans United Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Allen P and Josephine B Green · Edward Jones Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Pott Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · The William R Orthwein Jr and Laura Rand Orthwein Foundation Inc · East Missouri Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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About David B Lichtenstein Foundation
- How much does David B Lichtenstein Foundation give?
- David B Lichtenstein Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $723,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does David B Lichtenstein Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (40%), Education (15%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are David B Lichtenstein Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Municipal Theatre Association of St Louis ($273k), City of Columbia New Century Fund Inc ($271k), Baptist Student Union ($102k).
- Does David B Lichtenstein Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does David B Lichtenstein Foundation 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 David B Lichtenstein Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Veterans United Foundation, Commerce Bancshares Foundation, Allen P and Josephine B Green.
- Where is David B Lichtenstein Foundation based?
- David B Lichtenstein Foundation is based in MO.
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