Maryland · Private foundation
Lester Poretsky Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $270k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 160
- Grants FY2024
- 131
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $8,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 122 to 176
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 28
- Total assets, FY2024
- $538k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 34% of the organizations Lester Poretsky Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 147 | $267k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 131 | $215k | 34% |
| FY2022 | 176 | $225k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 165 | $310k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 160 | $342k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 149 | $301k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 136 | $297k | 12% |
| FY2017 | 122 | $265k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $75,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $54,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Bread for the City Inc | $51,515 | 8 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $51,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Capital Area Food Bank Inc | $45,200 | 8 | 0% |
| The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Inc | $45,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Alice Lloyd College | $42,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $42,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Mercy Corps | $40,300 | 8 | 0% |
| Fisher House Foundation Inc | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 211 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 78 recipients with no EIN on record ($379k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lester Poretsky Family Foundation Inc 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 Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Healthcare Initiative Foundation · Adventist Healthcare Inc · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Venable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Lester Poretsky Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Lester Poretsky Family Foundation Inc give?
- Lester Poretsky Family Foundation Inc reported 160 grants totaling $270,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 122 and 176 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Lester Poretsky Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (20%), Environment (13%), Health (12%).
- Who are Lester Poretsky Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($75k), Natural Resources Defense Council Inc ($55k), Bread for the City Inc ($52k).
- Does Lester Poretsky Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lester Poretsky Family Foundation Inc 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 Lester Poretsky Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, Clark-Winchcole Foundation.
- Where is Lester Poretsky Family Foundation Inc based?
- Lester Poretsky Family Foundation Inc is based in MD.
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