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.

Fannie M Lienhard Foundation

Fannie M Lienhard Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$20k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$277kEducation$210kAnimals$177kArts & Culture$172kHealth$171kHuman Services$104kInternational$98kHousing & Shelter$97kOther$0

02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k40 grants · $108k
$10k–50k5 grants · $65k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE NONHUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT	$20,000
Oxfam America Inc	$15,000
Upper Valley Haven Inc	$10,000
TRIPLE H RANCH INC	$10,000
CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION	$10,000
Planned Parenthood Federation of America	$9,000
Good Neighbor Health Clinic Inc	$8,000
TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST	$6,000
Kids Empowered by Your Support Inc	$5,000
Rhode Island School of Design	$5,000
Island Autism Group Inc	$5,000
Upper Valley Habitat for Humanity	$5,000
Listen Community Services	$4,000
Pace University	$4,000
Earthjustice	$3,000

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 (FY17–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.2M · 67 repeat orgs$310k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

67 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$295k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+23%

Still filing today

90%

70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationAnimalsArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther

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

OXFAM-AMERICA INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $84k · revenue +8%
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Nonhuman Rights Project Inc
5× · 2020–2025 · $76k · revenue +30%
KE
Kids Empowered by Your Support Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +41%

Funded once

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +102%
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -54%
SH
SAVING HARBIN DOGS INC
one grant, 2021 · $10k

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.

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals

Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals

Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment

Fauna & Flora International Usa Inc

Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.

Philanthropy

Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment

New York League of Conservation Voters

See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee; the most unlike its peers is Ric OBarrys Dolphin Project. 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

94 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 94 of the 112 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)

91/94

Grantees still filing

67/94

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$566,000Animals$210,000Education$207,000Civil Rights$200,000Arts & Culture$169,000Health$130,000International$87,000

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.

The Couch Family FoundationNH23.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Fannie M Lienhard Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fannie M Lienhard Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

2rely on government for over half their income

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home