Delaware · Private foundation
Richard & Karen Lefrak Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $5.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2024
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,050,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 20
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Richard & Karen Lefrak Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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 | 24 | $5.0M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $3.6M | 18% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $2.8M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $2.0M | 29% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $8.0M | 50% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $5.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc | $13,350,000 | 6 | 4% |
| New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc | $5,000,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Amherst College Trustees | $2,450,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Museum of Natural History | $1,450,000 | 6 | 0% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $470,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Barnard College | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hope for Depression Research Foundation | $150,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $150,000 | 5 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Richard & Karen Lefrak Charitable Foundation Inc 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: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Richard & Karen Lefrak Charitable Foundation Inc
- How much does Richard & Karen Lefrak Charitable Foundation Inc give?
- Richard & Karen Lefrak Charitable Foundation Inc reported 24 grants totaling $5,007,480 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 20 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Richard & Karen Lefrak Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (61%), Health (22%), Education (13%).
- Who are Richard & Karen Lefrak Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc ($13M), New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc ($5.0M), Amherst College Trustees ($2.5M).
- Does Richard & Karen Lefrak Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Richard & Karen Lefrak Charitable Foundation Inc 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 Richard & Karen Lefrak Charitable Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Richard & Karen Lefrak Charitable Foundation Inc based?
- Richard & Karen Lefrak Charitable Foundation Inc is based in DE.
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