California · Private foundation
Lafferman Family 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.
- $33k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 21
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $697k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Lafferman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 15 | $33k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $31k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $27k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $27k | 53% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $43k | 71% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $35k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $37,090 | 5 | 0% |
| New Art Center in Newton Inc (Fka) Newton Arts Center Inc | $20,990 | 5 | 0% |
| University High School | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| LIFE Animal Rescue | $6,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Food on Foot | $5,186 | 5 | 0% |
| Gym Rats Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America | $4,774 | 5 | 0% |
| Maimonides School | $4,687 | 3 | n/a |
| Camp Sunshine at Sebago Lake Inc | $4,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Indiana Mustangs Baseball Inc | $3,445 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($78k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lafferman Family 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 Pfizer Foundation Inc · Sempra Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good
How this is measured
About Lafferman Family Foundation
- How much does Lafferman Family Foundation give?
- Lafferman Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $33,216 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Lafferman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (24%), International (20%), Education (15%).
- Who are Lafferman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Friends of the Israel Defense Forces ($37k), New Art Center in Newton Inc (Fka) Newton Arts Center Inc ($21k), University High School ($8k).
- Does Lafferman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lafferman Family 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 Lafferman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Sempra Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is Lafferman Family Foundation based?
- Lafferman Family Foundation is based in CA.
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