Tennessee · Private foundation
Lichterman Loewenberg 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.
- $295k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2024
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
93% of Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Greater Memphis Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 17 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 26 organizations, $295k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $52,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 49
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $56k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 37% of the organizations Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k 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 | 42 | $243k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $245k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $238k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $217k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $208k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 49 | $192k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $169k | 26% |
| FY2017 | 44 | $138k | 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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Memphis Foundation | $398,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Memphis Jewish Community Center | $170,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis | $81,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Harwood Center Inc | $76,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Wolf River Conservancy Inc | $73,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Emmanuel Center Inc | $64,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Memphis Museums of Science & History | $48,827 | 4 | 1% |
| Madonna Learning Center Incorporated | $48,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Carpenter Art Garden | $46,500 | 6 | 3% |
| Artsmemphis | $37,850 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 60 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($546k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation supplied at peak.
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: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Plough Foundation · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · United Way of the Mid South · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · The Goldsmith Family Foundation Inc · Self Foundation · Speer Charitable Trust · The Urban Child Institute
How this is measured
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About Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation
- How much does Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation give?
- Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $295,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 49 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (27%), Education (15%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Memphis Foundation ($398k), Memphis Jewish Community Center ($170k), Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis ($81k).
- Does Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lichterman Loewenberg 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 Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, Christian Community Foundation of Memphis, The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation.
- Where is Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation based?
- Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation is based in TN.
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