New York · Private foundation
Lm 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.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $225,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 17
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Lm Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $1.1M | 53% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $670k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $1.1M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $928k | 63% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $880k | 86% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $75k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center on Budget and Policy Priorities | $800,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Breaking Ground Housing Development Fund Corporation | $750,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Vera Institute of Justice Inc | $650,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Osborne Association Inc | $455,000 | 5 | 0% |
| East Harlem Tutorial Program Inc | $230,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Tate Americas Foundation | $165,400 | 2 | 2% |
| Governing for Impact | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fair Democracy | $100,000 | 1 | 5% |
| New York Women's Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| John Jay College of Criminal Justice Student Activities Association Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($811k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lm Foundation 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 Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Robin Hood Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Lm Foundation
- How much does Lm Foundation give?
- Lm Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $1,056,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Lm Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (25%), Public Benefit (21%), Housing & Shelter (17%).
- Who are Lm Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ($800k), Breaking Ground Housing Development Fund Corporation ($750k), Vera Institute of Justice Inc ($650k).
- Does Lm Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lm 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 Lm Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, Robin Hood Foundation.
- Where is Lm Foundation based?
- Lm Foundation is based in NY.
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