· Private foundation
Lichtenstein Marcus Family Foundation
Its FY2020 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 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k25 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $44k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEICHAL HATORAH | $12,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,000 |
| American Friends of Maagalim | $10,000 |
| MANHATTAN JEWISH EXPERIENCE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,400 |
| Moises Safra Center | $5,870 |
| WESTCHESTER HEBREW HIGH SCHOOL | $5,250 |
| Imagination Productions Inc | $5,000 |
| THE JEWISH CENTER | $4,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,600 |
| MANHATTAN DAY SCHOOL | $2,180 |
| Chabad Center of Northwest NJ | $2,160 |
| American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel | $1,800 |
| OU-JLIC | $1,360 |
| University of Chicago | $1,360 |
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 (FY17–17, $136) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +58% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WHWESTCHESTER HEBREW HIGH SCHOOL4× · 2017–2020 · $24k · revenue +18%
- HHHEICHAL HATORAH4× · 2017–2020 · $22k · revenue +248%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAAGALIM INC2× · 2017–2020 · $13k · revenue +406%
Funded once
- NJNATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM INone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -40%
- COCHABAD OF HYDE PARKone grant, 2018 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
To further jewish education in israel
Support of religious schools in Israel
Religious School
Providing financial assistance to needy individuals as well as to other charitable, educational, and religious organizations in israel and worldwide
Furtherance of jewish education
To educate, enrich and empower visually impaired people across israel to achieve their full potential and become contributing members of society.
publish religious books
To enhance jewish education for children in israel by developing advanced educational methods, focusing on the building of personal relationships with the students to ensure that the needs of each individual are met. every child can be…
The furthurance of jewish concepts and religious beliefs.
To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 60 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 WESTCHESTER HEBREW HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HEICHAL HATORAH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAAGALIM INC ↗
- Who funds OPENDOR MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT HAKOTEL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds JEWISH INTERNATIONAL CONNECTION NY INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds BOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION 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 · Lichtenstein Marcus Foundation Inc · Jeannette and H Peter Kriendler Char Trust · The Sheila & Henry Marcus Foundation Inc · House of Gross Foundation Inc · Terumah Foundation Inc · The Ojc Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lichtenstein Marcus Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lichtenstein Marcus Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Heichal Hatorah: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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