Maryland · Private foundation
Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman 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.
- $740k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $350,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 4% of the organizations Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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 | 14 | $390k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $526k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $434k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $358k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $430k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $390k | 7% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $425k | 17% |
| FY2017 | 26 | $355k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $360,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum | $250,000 | 5 | 3% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $190,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Literacy Lab | $157,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Sixth & I Synagogue Inc | $140,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Washington Hebrew Congregation | $120,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Jewish Social Service Agency | $120,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington DC Inc | $115,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Shakespeare Theatre | $95,000 | 7 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($805k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman 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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · George Wasserman Family Foundation Inc · England Family Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Posner-Wallace Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Nussdorf Family Foundation Inc · Dockser Family Foundation Inc · The Ejl98 Charitable Trust · Dweck Philanthropies Inc
How this is measured
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About Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman Foundation
- How much does Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman Foundation give?
- Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $740,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (49%), Arts & Culture (11%), International (8%).
- Who are Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ($360k), Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum ($250k), The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ($200k).
- Does Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman 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 Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation.
- Where is Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman Foundation based?
- Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman Foundation is based in MD.
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