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Lostand 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.

$811k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
36
Grants FY2025
68
Organizations funded FY2024
35%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$311,540
Organizations funded a year
49 to 96
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$7.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Lostand Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $194k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationInternationalHealthCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving36$811k14%
FY202468$1.6M35%
FY202355$2.0M22%
FY202273$2.8M19%
FY202149$2.1M6%
FY202081$2.3M22%
FY201996$1.8M28%
FY201895$1.4M33%
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Social Science$5.7MArts & Culture$3.1MInternational$2.6MEnvironment$1.5MEducation$509kHuman Services$261kHealth$249kReligion$190kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
NM
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Garrison Institute$6,029,049927%
Brooklyn Academy of Music Inc$725,00090%
Dia Center for the Arts Inc$650,00041%
The Bhutan Foundation$229,80062%
American Museum of Natural History$221,00070%
Tibet Fund Inc$201,50091%
Jewel Heart Corporation$193,1887n/a
Scenic Hudson Inc$187,00080%
Jazz at Lincoln Center Inc$177,50080%
Enterprise Community Partners Inc$162,80050%
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All grantees of Lostand Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Garrison Institute$6,029,049927%
Brooklyn Academy of Music Inc$725,00090%
Dia Center for the Arts Inc$650,00041%
The Bhutan Foundation$229,80062%
American Museum of Natural History$221,00070%
Tibet Fund Inc$201,50091%
Jewel Heart Corporation$193,1887n/a
Scenic Hudson Inc$187,00080%
Jazz at Lincoln Center Inc$177,50080%
Enterprise Community Partners Inc$162,80050%
Yale University$155,0006n/a
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Inc$104,00061%
The Synergos Institute Inc$102,00041%
The Barack Obama Foundation$100,00020%
Storm King Art Center$85,00070%
Americans for Oxford Inc$85,00020%
Whitney Museum of American Art$83,00050%
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations$50,00040%
Manhattanville University$50,00030%
The Fortune Society Inc$50,00060%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$50,00010%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$45,00030%
Hudson Highlands Land Trust Inc$44,82671%
Magazzino Italian Art Foundation$44,00040%
Yesod Foundation$43,905611%
Friends of the High Line Inc$40,00020%
Karuna-Shechen USA$37,00081%
Capital Institute$35,00043%
Bronx Children's Museum$35,00012%
Council on Foreign Relations Inc$32,00080%
World Monuments Fund Inc$30,00010%
The Southampton Hospital Foundation Inc$30,00020%
Village Community School$28,00040%
Manitoga Inc$26,00061%
Garrison's Landing Association Inc$25,75048%
The Film Collaborative Inc$25,00011%
Mind & Life Institute$25,00010%
Theatre for a New Audience Inc$25,00010%
National Vote At Home Institute$25,00010%
University of Wisconsin Foundation$25,00010%
Yale University$25,0002n/a
Riverkeeper Inc$23,00060%
Vinceremos Riding Center Inc$20,00011%
Human Rights Watch Inc$20,00020%
The Mustique Charitable Foundation$18,00041%
Original Music Workshop Inc$17,50030%
Emory University$15,0001n/a
Peacejam Foundation$15,00011%
Manhattan Star Academy$14,50040%
Norton Museum of Art Inc$14,50020%
Blank Forms Inc$13,00060%
League of Conservation Voters Inc$13,00040%
The Urban Assembly Inc$12,50050%
Oceana Inc$12,50020%
Conservation Lands Foundation$12,50020%
Open Space Institute Inc$10,00060%
Ecological Citizen's Project Inc$10,00011%
Hias Inc$10,00010%
Center for Therapeutic Riding of the East End Inc$8,50041%
The International Society for Ecology and Culture$7,50050%
Dwight Hall at Yale$7,50080%
Ecoamerica$7,50060%
Glyndebourne America Inc Co the Law Offices of Richard M Block$7,50021%
Land Trust Alliance Inc$7,00060%
Greyston Foundation Inc$7,00070%
Horace Mann School$7,00070%
Rubin Museum of Art Aka the Shelley & Donald Rubin Cultural Trust$5,50030%
Chashama Inc$5,00010%
Asian Cultural Council Inc$5,00010%
Eo Wilson Biodiversity Foundation$5,00010%
Little Stony Point Citizens Association$5,0001n/a
The Adam R Rose Foundation$5,00010%
Kiss the Ground$5,00010%
Drukpa North America Inc$5,00016%
Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri$5,00010%
Seed Artists Inc$5,0001n/a
Wisdom Publications Inc$4,50060%
St Lukes Chamber Ensemble Inc$4,00020%
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States$4,00040%
World Central Kitchen Inc$4,00010%
Equal Justice Initiative$4,00010%
Glynwood Center Inc$3,75060%
Naropa University$3,50020%
Boscobel Restoration Inc$3,50020%
New York Public Radio$3,00080%
Himalayan Elders Project Inc$3,0001n/a
The House Foundation for the Arts Inc$3,00030%
Century Association Archives Foundation$2,75080%
Center for Community Change$2,50010%
Clarion Music Society$2,50011%
Edward Charles Foundation$2,50010%
Caring for the Homeless of Peekskill Inc$2,50010%
The Trust for Public Land$2,50010%
The Free History Project Inc$2,50011%
Harlem Educational Activities Fund Inc$2,50010%
Institute for Jewish Spirituality Inc$2,50040%
Publicolor Inc$2,50010%
New York-New Jersey Trail Conference Inc$2,50010%
Retro Report Inc$2,50010%
Buddhist Digital Resource Center Inc$2,50010%
Justleadershipusa Inc$2,50010%
Brooklyn Community Bail Fund Inc$2,50010%
Batonga Foundation$2,50011%
Presencing Institute Inc$2,50010%
Peace Is Loud Inc$2,50010%
Len Ragozin Foundation Inc$2,50011%
Harmony Project Hudson Inc$2,00021%
Highlands Current Inc$2,00070%
Trace Foundation$2,0002n/a
Tibet House US Inc$1,80020%
Garrison Art Center Inc$1,75060%
Philipstown Depot Theatre Inc$1,75060%
Blood Cancer United Inc$1,50010%
Philipstown Behavioral Health Hub Inc$1,25020%
Polo For Life Inc$1,00010%
The Voter Participation Center$1,00010%
The Garrison Children's Education Fund Inc$1,00031%
Fund for Public Housing Inc$1,0001n/a
First Nations Development Institute$1,00010%
Alice Curtis Desmond and Hamilton Fish Library dba Desmond-Fish Public Library$1,00010%
The Hastings Center Inc$1,00040%
International Rescue Committee INC$1,00010%
Center for Whole Communities Inc$1,00010%
International Crisis Group$1,00010%
The Carnegie Hall Corporation$1,00010%
Harvestworks Inc$1,00030%
Wholesome Wave Inc$1,00010%
Tibetan Village Project$9001n/a
Mela Foundation Inc$84810%
Sarvodaya USA Corporation$75030%
Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Inc$75030%
Center for Action and Contemplation$75030%
Cold Spring Farmers Market Inc$75030%
Tricycle Foundation$50020%
New Amsterdam Singers Inc$50020%
Hudson Highlands Nature Center$50010%
Seeds of Peace Inc$25010%
Land of Compassion Buddha$2501n/a
International Campaign for Tibet$25010%
Snowmass-Capitol Creek Caucus$1001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 89 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Lostand Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 128 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Garrison Institute: $6,029,049 over 9y, 27% of budgetBrooklyn Academy of Music Inc: $725,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetDia Center for the Arts Inc: $650,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetThe Bhutan Foundation: $229,800 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $221,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTibet Fund Inc: $201,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc: $187,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetJazz at Lincoln Center Inc: $177,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEnterprise Community Partners Inc: $162,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Inc: $104,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetThe Synergos Institute Inc: $102,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetThe Barack Obama Foundation: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStorm King Art Center: $85,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAmericans for Oxford Inc: $85,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $83,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetManhattanville University: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fortune Society Inc: $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHudson Highlands Land Trust Inc: $44,826 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetMagazzino Italian Art Foundation: $44,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetYesod Foundation: $43,905 over 6y, 11% of budgetFriends of the High Line Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKaruna-Shechen USA: $37,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetCapital Institute: $35,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetBronx Children's Museum: $35,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCouncil on Foreign Relations Inc: $32,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Monuments Fund Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Southampton Hospital Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVillage Community School: $28,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetManitoga Inc: $26,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetGarrison's Landing Association Inc: $25,750 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetThe Film Collaborative Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMind & Life Institute: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTheatre for a New Audience Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNational Vote At Home Institute: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Wisconsin Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRiverkeeper Inc: $23,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVinceremos Riding Center Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mustique Charitable Foundation: $18,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetOriginal Music Workshop Inc: $17,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPeacejam Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetManhattan Star Academy: $14,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNorton Museum of Art Inc: $14,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBlank Forms Inc: $13,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLeague of Conservation Voters Inc: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 128.

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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.

Jewish Communal FundNY27.9× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Lanegate Foundation · The D J McManus Foundation Inc · Ag Foundation · Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · The Ford Foundation · Lostand Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Land Family Foundation · Putnam Arts Council · The Topfield Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Compare Lostand Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to Lostand Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lostand Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Lostand Foundation

How much does Lostand Foundation give?
Lostand Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $810,501 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 96 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Lostand Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Social Science (37%), Arts & Culture (20%), International (17%).
Who are Lostand Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Garrison Institute ($6.0M), Brooklyn Academy of Music Inc ($725k), Dia Center for the Arts Inc ($650k).
Does Lostand Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lostand 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 Lostand Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Lanegate Foundation, The D J McManus Foundation Inc.
Where is Lostand Foundation based?
Lostand Foundation is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 233 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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