New Jersey · Private foundation
Fannie M Lienhard 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.
- $173k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 45
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 50
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Fannie M Lienhard Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 45 | $173k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $201k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $153k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $157k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $160k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $240k | 24% |
| FY2019 | 47 | $132k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 43 | $120k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Oxfam-America Inc | $84,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Nonhuman Rights Project Inc | $76,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Kids Empowered by Your Support Inc | $74,500 | 9 | 3% |
| Upper Valley Haven | $62,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Good Neighbor Health Clinic Inc | $50,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Pace University | $46,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated | $39,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 96 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($43k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fannie M Lienhard Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 Couch Family Foundation · Lane & Elizabeth C Dwinell Fdn · Mascoma Bank Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · Hypertherm Hope Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Mt Roeschmore Foundation · Emily Landecker Foundation Inc · Claremont Savings Bank Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Barrette Family Fund
How this is measured
About Fannie M Lienhard Foundation
- How much does Fannie M Lienhard Foundation give?
- Fannie M Lienhard Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $173,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Fannie M Lienhard Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (18%), Education (13%), Animals (11%).
- Who are Fannie M Lienhard Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc ($100k), NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc ($100k), Oxfam-America Inc ($84k).
- Does Fannie M Lienhard Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fannie M Lienhard 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 Fannie M Lienhard Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Couch Family Foundation, Lane & Elizabeth C Dwinell Fdn, Mascoma Bank Foundation.
- Where is Fannie M Lienhard Foundation based?
- Fannie M Lienhard Foundation is based in NJ.
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