New York · Private foundation
Robert Lehman Foundation Inc
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.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 56
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,126,954
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 55
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $39M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Robert Lehman Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k 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 | 55 | $2.1M | 29% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $1.8M | 39% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $1.9M | 56% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $2.0M | 57% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $2.4M | 76% |
| FY2020 | 55 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $5,184,861 | 5 | 0% |
| The Frick Collection | $1,151,954 | 2 | 2% |
| Portland Art Museum | $210,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences | $183,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Pierpont Morgan Library | $115,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cleveland Museum of Art | $110,000 | 2 | 0% |
| New York Studio School | $108,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Brooks School | $107,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Museum of Modern Art | $90,600 | 5 | 0% |
| Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 118 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 62 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert Lehman 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: The Cowles Charitable Trust · Hillman Family Foundations · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Ag Foundation · Terra Foundation for American Art · Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation · Arison Arts Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Wolf Kahn Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Robert Lehman Foundation Inc
- How much does Robert Lehman Foundation Inc give?
- Robert Lehman Foundation Inc reported 56 grants totaling $2,106,054 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 55 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Robert Lehman Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (93%), Education (4%), Science & Tech (1%).
- Who are Robert Lehman Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Metropolitan Museum of Art ($5.2M), The Frick Collection ($1.2M), Portland Art Museum ($210k).
- Does Robert Lehman Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert Lehman 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 Robert Lehman Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cowles Charitable Trust, Hillman Family Foundations, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc.
- Where is Robert Lehman Foundation Inc based?
- Robert Lehman Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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