· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
- $250k+1 grant · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $350,000 |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $50,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE | $25,000 |
| SIXTH & I HISTORIC SYNAGOGUE | $20,000 |
| EDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC | $20,000 |
| WASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION | $15,000 |
| THE JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY | $15,000 |
| AVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICES CORP | $15,000 |
| CHARLES E SMITH LIFE COMMUNITIES INC | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND HILLEL | $10,000 |
| WETA | $5,000 |
| JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $290k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 42% of Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 31% of the giving stays in DC; by stated purpose, 28%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 3 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $360k · revenue +24%- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum2× · 2023–2025 · $200k · revenue +3%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM7× · 2018–2025 · $190k · revenue +206%
Funded once
- ACAmerican Committee for the Weizmann Inst of Sciencone grant, 2019 · $25k
- ACAmerican Committee for the Weizman Institute of Scone grant, 2020 · $25k
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +80%
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.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society…
Dedicated to increasing public knowledge through washington monthly magazine and website www.washingtonmonthly.com published since 1969, the print magazine is the country's most important watchdog of american government, focusing on what's…
Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.
The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.
Freshfarm is a washington, dc-based nonprofit that builds a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient food system in the mid-atlantic region by producing innovative solutions in partnership with local communities and organizations. we…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.
The mission of gw hillel is to provide an open, warm, and pluralistic environment in which students can shape their college experience by connecting socially, culturally, and spiritually to their judaism. hillel aims to foster students'…
Jews united for justice advances economic, racial, and social justice in the baltimore-washington region by educating and mobilizing our local jewish communities to action.
The bender jcc embraces and welcomes the diversity of our community and encourages everyone to seek meaning and fulfillment by participating in our rich programming inspired by our jewish heritage. we open our doors to everyone, including…
Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 51 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
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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY LAB ↗
- Who funds SIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds EDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds FAIR CHANCE ↗
- Who funds AVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds REACH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INNER CITY LACROSSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Nature Forward ↗
- Who funds DC SCORES ↗
- Who funds AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES ↗
- Who funds The Studio Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Nature Forward: 32% of income from government
- Jewish Social Service Agency: 1% of income from government
- Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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