New York · Private foundation
Frances Lear 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.
- $673k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $214,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 32
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations Frances Lear Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k 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 | 31 | $654k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $692k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $601k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $598k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $651k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $663k | 24% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $586k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ballet Hispanico of New York Inc | $1,411,500 | 7 | 4% |
| Rainforest Alliance Inc | $527,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Youth Represent Inc | $322,530 | 7 | 3% |
| Daughters Beyond Incarceration | $152,500 | 6 | 7% |
| Pal-O-Mine Equestrian Inc | $140,000 | 7 | 2% |
| New York Women's Foundation Inc | $120,000 | 6 | 0% |
| A Little Piece of Light Inc | $115,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Good Call NYC | $87,500 | 7 | 3% |
| Goodnation Foundation Inc | $85,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth | $85,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 66 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($568k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Frances Lear 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: Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Tow Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Public Welfare Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · New Venture Fund · The Overbrook Foundation
How this is measured
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About Frances Lear Foundation
- How much does Frances Lear Foundation give?
- Frances Lear Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $672,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 32 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Frances Lear Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (33%), Crime & Legal (21%), Philanthropy (12%).
- Who are Frances Lear Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Ballet Hispanico of New York Inc ($1.4M), Rainforest Alliance Inc ($528k), Youth Represent Inc ($323k).
- Does Frances Lear Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Frances Lear 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 Frances Lear Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc, The Tow Foundation Inc, The Ford Foundation.
- Where is Frances Lear Foundation based?
- Frances Lear Foundation is based in NY.
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