Connecticut · Private foundation
Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $95k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 71
- Grants FY2025
- 58
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 62
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 69 | $93k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 58 | $60k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 62 | $62k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 55 | $61k | 2% |
| FY2021 | 53 | $54k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $53k | 4% |
| FY2019 | 52 | $56k | 8% |
| FY2018 | 53 | $55k | 19% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut Foodshare Inc | $28,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen Inc | $26,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Columbus House Inc | $25,100 | 9 | 0% |
| New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas Inc | $19,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Neighborhood Music School Inc | $18,500 | 9 | 0% |
| New Haven Legal Assistance Association Inc | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Fellowship Place Inc | $10,500 | 9 | 0% |
| New Reach Inc | $10,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Connecticut Radio Information System Inc | $9,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Junta for Progressive Action Inc | $9,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 67 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($167k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc 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: The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Yale University · Eder Family Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Seedlings Foundation · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · The Jane and William Curran Foundation Inc C/O Margaret Andreassi · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · City Missionary Association of New Haven · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · MFUND Inc
How this is measured
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About Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc
- How much does Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc give?
- Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc reported 71 grants totaling $94,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 62 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (21%), Health (16%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Connecticut Foodshare Inc ($29k), Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen Inc ($27k), Columbus House Inc ($25k).
- Does Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, Newalliance Foundation Inc, Yale University.
- Where is Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc based?
- Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc is based in CT.
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