· Private foundation
Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
61% of Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman Foundation Inc’s FY2023 grant dollars went to The Jewish Federation Of Greater Washington Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 24 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k11 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $240k
- $250k+1 grant · $825k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish Federation of Greater Washington | $825,000 |
| United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $100,000 |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $90,000 |
| American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee INC | $50,000 |
| Anti Defamation League | $40,000 |
| Sixth & I Historic Synagogue | $25,000 |
| American Committee for the Weizmann Institute | $25,000 |
| The Literacy Lab | $22,500 |
| Sibley Memorial Hospital foundation | $15,000 |
| Shakespeare Theatre Company | $15,000 |
| Jewish Social Service Agency | $15,000 |
| Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington DC | $15,000 |
| WASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION | $15,000 |
| The Student Conservation Association inc | $12,500 |
| Children's National Medical Center | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $270k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 42% of Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 31% of the giving stays in DC; read by stated purpose it is 28% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
33 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $310k · revenue +24%- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM6× · 2018–2023 · $140k · revenue +206%
- SISIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC5× · 2019–2023 · $120k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- ACAmerican Committee for the Weizmann Inst of Sciencone grant, 2019 · $25k
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +80%
- ACAmerican Committee for the Weizman Institute of Scone grant, 2020 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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 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…
Meridian international center is a nonpartisan diplomacy institution founded in 1960 to advance american leadership. headquartered on a historic campus in washington dc, our mission is to empower leaders to advance the next era of…
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.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
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'…
Cesjds is a pre k-12 grade independent day school that delivers an exemplary general and jewish education. our purpose is to ensure a vibrant jewish future by fostering the growth of confident, compassionate thinkers who engage the world…
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.
Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.
To provide a rigorous, classical education to public school middle and high school students from across the district of columbia.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Martha's Table Inc and the most unlike its peers is Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your 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 LITERACY LAB ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds SIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds EDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAIR CHANCE ↗
- Who funds HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds AVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds REACH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INNER CITY LACROSSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Nature Forward ↗
- Who funds AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES ↗
- Who funds DC SCORES ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Studio Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds MIRIAM'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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