How much does Eugene and Janet Lerner Family Foundation Inc give?

Eugene and Janet Lerner Family Foundation Inc reported 43 grants totaling $1,179,461 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 44 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Eugene and Janet Lerner Family Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (29%), Health (20%), International (19%).

Who are Eugene and Janet Lerner Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($1.3M), Keshet ($388k), Birthright Israel Foundation ($340k).

Does Eugene and Janet Lerner Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Eugene and Janet Lerner Family 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.

Where is Eugene and Janet Lerner Family Foundation Inc based?

Eugene and Janet Lerner Family Foundation Inc is based in IL.

Eugene and Janet Lerner Family Foundation Inc

Eugene and Janet Lerner Family Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Eugene and Janet Lerner Family Foundation Inc

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Eugene and Janet Lerner Family Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Gondeck Family Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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.

$1.2M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$275k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.6MHealth$1.1MInternational$1.1MRecreation & Sports$510kReligion$269kArts & Culture$245kYouth Development$132kEducation$118kOther$0

02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k14 grants · $70k
$10k–50k21 grants · $311k
$50k–250k7 grants · $524k
$250k+1 grant · $275k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$14M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JEWISH UNITED FUND	$275,000
KESHET	$112,500
FRIENDS OF ELNET	$100,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION	$100,000
ANRA (ADVANCES IN NEUROBLASTOMA RESEARCH ASSN)	$60,000
ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND	$51,000
OPENDORMEDIA	$50,000
OLIN SANG RUBY UNION INSTITUTE CAMP	$50,000
NEW ISRAEL FUND	$40,000
ST BALDRICKS FOUNDATION	$30,000
JUDD GOLDMAN ADOPTIVE SAILING FOUNDATION	$25,000
LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS	$20,000
SOCIAL GOOD FUND	$20,000
CONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION	$15,000
CAL POLY FOUNDATION	$15,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.8M · 50 repeat orgs$284k to everyone else

50 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.8M

$266k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+52%

Still filing today

62%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthArts & CultureInternationalEducationPhilanthropyReligionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

JU
JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +13%
K
KESHET
5× · 2020–2024 · $388k · revenue +53%
BI
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $340k · revenue +19%

Funded once

IP
ISRAEL PARASPORT CENTER
one grant, 2023 · $100k
AI
ADVANCES IN NEUROBLASTOMA RESEARCH
one grant, 2020 · $34k
University of Chicagograduated
one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +52%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy

American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International

The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International

Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education

Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy

University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy

American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education

The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Israel Education Resource Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 78 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

50/51

Grantees still filing

38/51

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,201,623Philanthropy$1,540,000International$977,000Health$370,000Arts & Culture$183,000Education$175,000Religion$142,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Gondeck Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Eugene and Janet Lerner Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eugene and Janet Lerner Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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