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Roy Lichtenstein Foundation

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.

$12M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$26,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$7,239,083
Organizations funded a year
10 to 23
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$55M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Roy Lichtenstein Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 93% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHealthHuman ServicesCivil 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
FY2024still arriving13$12M31%
FY202312$18M33%
FY202210$776k10%
FY202112$3.8M33%
FY202023$205k83%
FY201912$35M25%
FY201813$6.3M46%
FY201710$5.1Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$73MScience & Tech$5.0MEducation$2.6MSocial Science$82kFood & Nutrition$4kCivil Rights$2kEnvironment$1kHealth$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
ND
MN
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CA
KS
NC
DC
AL
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 34 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($31M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Roy Lichtenstein Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $36,091,300 over 5y, 36% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $5,000,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetColumbus Museum of Art: $3,255,750 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetPhiladelphia Museum of Art: $1,592,650 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFoundation for Contemporary Arts Inc: $1,425,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $609,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Foundation for Art Research Inc: $590,000 over 6y, 27% of budgetSpelman College: $523,206 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum Associates: $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $189,690 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFilm Forum Inc: $110,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetThe Aspen Institute Inc: $82,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Parrish Art Museum Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPortland Art Museum: $42,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $15,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Centre Pompidou Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSolomon R Guggenheim Foundation: $8,608 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $7,120 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBrandywine Workshop and Archives: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAschiana Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Audre Lorde Project Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSociety of the Third Street Music School Settlement: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank for New York City: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArts Administrators of Color Dmv Network: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIndigenous Environmental Network: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Book: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilipstown Depot Theatre Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Immigration Council: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReading Partners: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHaldane School Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.9% 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 32.

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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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Roy Lichtenstein Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Roy Lichtenstein 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 Roy Lichtenstein Foundation

How much does Roy Lichtenstein Foundation give?
Roy Lichtenstein Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $11,878,809 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Roy Lichtenstein Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (90%), Science & Tech (6%), Education (3%).
Who are Roy Lichtenstein Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Whitney Museum of American Art ($36M), Smithsonian Institution ($5.0M), Columbus Museum of Art ($3.3M).
Does Roy Lichtenstein Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Roy Lichtenstein 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 Roy Lichtenstein Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Roy Lichtenstein Foundation based?
Roy Lichtenstein 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 53 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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