New York · Private foundation
Denise Lefrak 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.
- $218k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 21
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations Denise Lefrak Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 82% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 11 | $212k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $183k | 75% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $361k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $711k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $184k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $143k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barnard College | $1,004,567 | 2 | 0% |
| The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc | $71,550 | 4 | 0% |
| The Parrish Art Museum Inc | $64,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Northwestern University | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| New York STEM Cell Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Congregation Emanuel | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Richard J Caron Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Race to Erase Ms | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($313k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Denise Lefrak Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Denise Lefrak Foundation
- How much does Denise Lefrak Foundation give?
- Denise Lefrak Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $218,050 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 21 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Denise Lefrak Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (60%), Health (21%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are Denise Lefrak Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Barnard College ($1.0M), The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc ($72k), The Parrish Art Museum Inc ($65k).
- Does Denise Lefrak Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Denise Lefrak 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 Denise Lefrak Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is Denise Lefrak Foundation based?
- Denise Lefrak Foundation is based in NY.
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