New York · Private foundation
Lake Road 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.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 68
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
63% of Lake Road Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Communal Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 44 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.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,110,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 54
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $25M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Lake Road Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k 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 | 63 | $659k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $975k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $456k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 53 | $1.9M | 45% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $312k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $643,917 | 5 | 0% |
| Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust | $572,757 | 5 | 2% |
| Third Way Institute | $300,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Media Matters for America | $300,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Westchester Jewish Community Services Inc | $139,280 | 5 | 0% |
| Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Afya Foundation of America Inc | $80,182 | 2 | 0% |
| Sunrise Day Camps Association Inc | $67,186 | 3 | 0% |
| The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Peace House Inc | $57,811 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 87 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lake Road Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Glff Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Stuntz Family Foundation · Stern Family Philanthropic Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · K & M Weisburgh Charitable Fund Inc · Jjj Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Lake Road Foundation
- How much does Lake Road Foundation give?
- Lake Road Foundation reported 68 grants totaling $1,780,477 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 54 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Lake Road Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (73%), Arts & Culture (7%), Education (5%).
- Who are Lake Road Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($644k), Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust ($573k), Third Way Institute ($300k).
- Does Lake Road Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lake Road 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 Lake Road Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Glff Inc, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc.
- Where is Lake Road Foundation based?
- Lake Road Foundation is based in NY.
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