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Lenhardt 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.

$67k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$144kEnvironment$86kHealth$11kRecreation & Sports$6kEducation$2kReligion$2kInternational$1kHousing & Shelter$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $62k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$616k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Charleston Library Society$22,000
Garden Conservancy Inc$20,000
Gibbes Museum of Art$10,000
Let's Walk$10,000
Preservation Society of Charleston$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PHOENIX ART MUSEUM: $2k → 11%BOSTON COLLEGE: $100 → 7%GARDEN CONSERVANCY: $2k → 6%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $500 → 9%Charleston Library Society: $22k → 12%THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION: $300 → 14%CLASSICAL AMERICAN HOMES PRESERVATION TRUST: $1k → 13%IRISH GEORGIAN SOCIETY: $100 → 14%THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $500 → 11%SHELBURNE MUSEUM: $200 → 10%PHOENIX ART MUSEUM: $2k → 11%GARDEN CONSERVANCY: $350 → 6%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $100 → 9%Charleston Library Society: $22k → 12%CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $1k → 14%Garden Conservancy Inc: $20k → 6%HISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $12k → 12%Garden Conservancy Inc: $20k → 6%Carolina Art Association: $10k → 12%ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $3k → 14%THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY: $5k → 6%Gibbes Museum of Art: $10k → 12%ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $3k → 14%CHARLESTON GAILLARD CENTER: $8k → 12%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF CHARLESTON: $6k → 12%ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $3k → 14%HISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $6k → 12%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%HISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $3k → 14%HISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%Preservation Society of Charleston: $5k → 12%CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN: $25k → 14%CHARLESTON LIBRARY SOCIETY: $1k → 12%CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN: $7k → 14%POMPION HILL CHAPEL FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN: $2k → 14%THE GLOBAL HEALTH INITIATIVE FUND: $1k → 14%CHARLESTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $3k → 12%GARDEN GUILD OF WINNETKA: $250 → 14%CHARLESTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $3k → 12%Let's Walk: $10k → 12%DRAYTON HALL: $43k → 12%DRAYTON HALL: $16k → 12%CHARLESTON LIBRARY: $1k → 12%DRAYTON HALL: $657 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
NY
MA
NJ
AZ
NC
SC
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$284k · 12 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
15

Total granted

$284k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+25%

Still filing today

92%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHealthRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TG
    THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +109%
  • CL
    Charleston Library Society
    3× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +39%
  • CH
    CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
    3× · 2017–2023 · $34k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • CG
    CHARLESTON GAILLARD MANAGEMENT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +114%
  • TC
    The Charleston Parks Conservancygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +214%
  • CL
    CHARLESTON LIBRARY
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
2
The South Carolina Historical Society

The schs mission is to expand, preserve, and make accessible our invaluable collection, and to encourage interest and pride in the rich history of our state.

Arts & Culture
3
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
4
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
5
Tudor Place Foundation Inc

Tudor place historic house & garden preserves the stories of six generations of descendants of martha washington and the enslaved and free people who lived and worked at this georgetown landmark for nearly two centuries. by examining their…

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6
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…

Arts & Culture
7
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
8
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
9
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
10
Brookgreen Gardens

Brookgreen gardens was formed in 1931 to collect, preserve and exhibit american sculpture, and the flora and fauna native to south carolina.

Environment
11
The North Caroliniana Society

To promote interest in, knowledge of, and appreciation for north carolina history and culture through historical preservation, library service, and perpetuation of state literary and cultural heritage.

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12
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Horticultural Society; the most unlike its peers is Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
19/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $59,481 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $45,874 · OtherHISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATIONCharleston Library Society: $45,450 · OtherCharleston Library SocietyThe Preservation Society of Charleston Inc: $10,600 · OtherThe Preservation Society of Charleston Inc+7 more: $4,714 · OtherTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $47,200 · EnvironmentTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INCCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $33,600 · EnvironmentCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETYCharleston Horticultural Society: $5,000 · EnvironmentCharleston Horticultural SocietyThe Charleston Parks Conservancy: $3,333 · Environment+1 more: $250 · EnvironmentCAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCAROLINA AR…CHARLESTON GAILLARD MANAGEMENT CORPORATION: $8,000 · Arts & CultureCHARLESTON …PHOENIX ART MUSEUM: $3,000 · Arts & CulturePHOENIX ART…+3 more: $600 · Arts & CultureLETS WALK: $10,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $850 · HealthTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $10,000 · EducationTHE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $500 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationNorthwestern University: $3,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$166,119Environment$89,383Arts & Culture$31,600Health$10,850Education$10,600Recreation & Sports$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $47,200 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $45,874 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCharleston Library Society: $45,450 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $33,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Preservation Society of Charleston Inc: $10,600 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLETS WALK: $10,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetCHARLESTON GAILLARD MANAGEMENT CORPORATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCharleston Horticultural Society: $5,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Charleston Parks Conservancy: $3,333 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNorthwestern University: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX ART MUSEUM: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRICHARD HAMPTON JENRETTE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOMPION HILL CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGarden Guild of Winnetka co Lynne Frank: $250 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IRISH GEORGIAN SOCIETY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Coastal Community Fou…Gaylord and Dorothy D…The Chicago Community…Atlantic Services of …John M Rivers Jr Foun…Elbridge & Evelyn Stu…Kirby Family Foundati…Guffey Family Foundat…John Winthrop Charita…The Stony Point Found…South Carolina Humani…Henry & Sylvia Yaschi…
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Atlantic Services of Charleston Cha · John M Rivers Jr Foundation · Elbridge & Evelyn Stuart Foundation · Kirby Family Foundation Inc · Guffey Family Foundation · John Winthrop Charitable Trust · The Stony Point Foundation · South Carolina Humanities Council Inc · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lenhardt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lenhardt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Shelburne Museum Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • The Hun School of Princeton: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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