· Private foundation
Lemberg Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $300k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $810,000 |
| USDAN CENTER | $550,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL | $447,000 |
| HASTINGS CENTER | $200,000 |
| UJA FEDERATION | $199,950 |
| 92ND ST Y | $125,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE | $67,000 |
| BENNINGTON COLLEGE | $65,000 |
| LEARNING SPRING SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $60,000 |
| LINCOLN CENTER THEATRE | $55,000 |
| JEWISH BUSINESS NETWORK | $50,000 |
| BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC | $50,000 |
| NY BOTANICAL GARDEN | $45,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $248k) land where the poverty rate runs at 26%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
78 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WUWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $6.3M · revenue +40%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +22%
- THThe Hastings Center Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +61%
Funded once
- BBAMone grant, 2019 · $160k
- SFSCHOOL FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2017 · $30k
- FAFOOD ALLERGY INITIATIVEone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
For more than a century, diller-quaile has offered an environment where music can flourish in all its aspects, enriching the lives of students of all ages and cultural backgrounds. the belief that music is a fundamental part of human life…
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.
How this is measured
68 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. 68 of the 136 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 WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds The Hastings Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEARNINGSPRING SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds BRONX HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds THE NEW 42ND STREET INC ↗
- Who funds THE SYMPHONY SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds FILM FORUM 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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Joelson Foundation · Arnhold Foundation Inc · The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP · The Ford Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lemberg Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lemberg Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
- Westport Country Playhouse Inc: 2% of income from government
- Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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