Kansas · Private foundation
Lois & Max Beren Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $181k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $18,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $621k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Lois & Max Beren Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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 | 21 | $181k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $214k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $183k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $200k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $152k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $173k | 24% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $145k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $147k | 48% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas State University | $105,050 | 8 | n/a |
| University of Denver | $43,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $41,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Newman University Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Corporation of Gonzaga University | $29,000 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Alaska | $22,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Northeastern University | $21,500 | 3 | 0% |
| St John's University New York | $20,212 | 3 | 0% |
| The College of Wooster | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Rhode Island School of Design | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas State University | $105,050 | 8 | n/a |
| University of Denver | $43,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $41,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Newman University Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Corporation of Gonzaga University | $29,000 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Alaska | $22,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Northeastern University | $21,500 | 3 | 0% |
| St John's University New York | $20,212 | 3 | 0% |
| The College of Wooster | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Rhode Island School of Design | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Baker University | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Santa Fe College | $17,500 | 4 | n/a |
| The University of Charleston Inc | $15,400 | 2 | 0% |
| George Mason University | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Trustees of Boston College | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Florida State University | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Allen County Community College | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Mississippi State University | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Bucknell University | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Southwestern College | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Wake Forest University | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Central College | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Buena Vista University | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Weber State University | $7,448 | 2 | n/a |
| Johnson County Community College | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Indiana University School of Medicine | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Anderson University | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The New School | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ithaca College | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc | $3,644 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($968k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lois & Max Beren 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: Tulsa Community Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Lois & Max Beren Foundation
- How much does Lois & Max Beren Foundation give?
- Lois & Max Beren Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $180,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lois & Max Beren Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
- Who are Lois & Max Beren Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kansas State University ($105k), University of Denver ($44k), Trustees of Boston University ($41k).
- Does Lois & Max Beren Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lois & Max Beren Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lois & Max Beren Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tulsa Community Foundation, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Lois & Max Beren Foundation based?
- Lois & Max Beren Foundation is based in KS.
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