California · Private foundation
Lee and Anne Samson Charitable 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.
- $487k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 34
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $731
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Lee and Anne Samson Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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 | 16 | $487k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $164k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $1.1M | 39% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $279k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $1.4M | 47% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $678k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc | $425,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Young Israel of North Beverly Hills | $418,112 | 6 | n/a |
| Ncsy | $303,600 | 2 | n/a |
| Yula High School | $293,600 | 3 | 1% |
| The Torah and Nature Foundation | $280,360 | 5 | 22% |
| American Committee for Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem Inc | $211,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Friends of Ariel University Inc | $202,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ariel University Foundation | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Los Angeles Philharmonic Association | $150,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Yeshiva University | $105,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 65 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($851k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lee and Anne Samson Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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 Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Communal Fund · Jack and Gitta Nagel Foundation · Hager Foundation · Natalie & Jonathan Gerber Family Foundation · Davmarn Foundation · Ryzman Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · The Sassoon Family Foundation · Jay Morris Foundation Inc · California Community Foundation · Chavi F Hertz Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Lee and Anne Samson Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Lee and Anne Samson Charitable Foundation
- How much does Lee and Anne Samson Charitable Foundation give?
- Lee and Anne Samson Charitable Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $487,325 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 34 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Lee and Anne Samson Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Religion (23%), Civil Rights (10%).
- Who are Lee and Anne Samson Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc ($425k), Young Israel of North Beverly Hills ($418k), Ncsy ($304k).
- Does Lee and Anne Samson Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lee and Anne Samson Charitable 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 Lee and Anne Samson Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, Jewish Communal Fund, Jack and Gitta Nagel Foundation.
- Where is Lee and Anne Samson Charitable Foundation based?
- Lee and Anne Samson Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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