· Private foundation
Gerda Lissner Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $29k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $17,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
54 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TATHE ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS5× · 2017–2023 · $33k · revenue +25%
- OAOPERA AT FLORHAM INC4× · 2017–2022 · $22k · revenue +27%
- OIOPERA INDEX INC5× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +463%
Funded once
- IFINSTITUTE FOR YOUNG DRAMATIC VOICES INCone grant, 2017 · $31k · revenue +2%
- OOOPERA ORCHESTRA OF NYone grant, 2017 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $17k
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.
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.
Supports singer's education with seattle opera.
To educate the general public of new york on all aspects of opera through opera productions, lectures, classes, camps, social media, newsletters, etc. while emphasizing the need to make opera accessible and affordable to all people, no…
Opera columbus enriches central ohio by educating, enlightening, and entertaining people of all ages and backgrounds through the live music theatre experience by employing a diverse and far-flung supply of creative talent, ideas and…
NYFOS is dedicated to creating intimate song concerts of great beauty and originality, weaving music, poetry, history and humor into unforgettable evenings of compelling theater, entertaining, educating and creating community among…
Educate and promote classical music
Providing paid opportunities for Houston based singers.
Based in ny city the company focuses on producing and developing new opera and music theater works and rviving rarely seen american operas written after world war. teh center for contemporary operas ha sstaged the premiers of over seventy…
Produce Opera for Children and to introduce the arts to young adults
To perpetuate, teach and keep alive style and tradition in the 19th and 20th century italian opera.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 275 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds THE ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR YOUNG DRAMATIC VOICES INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA AT FLORHAM INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA INDEX INC ↗
- Who funds CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds GIULIO GARI FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gerda Lissner Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gerda Lissner Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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