Delaware · Private foundation
Samuel J & Ethel Lefrak Charitable Trust
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.
- $350k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 70
- Grants FY2024
- 94
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 74%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 68 to 94
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 74% of the organizations Samuel J & Ethel Lefrak Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $383k 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 | 68 | $350k | 69% |
| FY2023 | 94 | $512k | 74% |
| FY2022 | 78 | $523k | 94% |
| FY2021 | 71 | $504k | 54% |
| FY2020 | 68 | $468k | 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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charity Global Inc | $120,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Wildlife Sos | $92,750 | 2 | 2% |
| Mercy for Animals Inc | $80,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Eastern United States Taoist Association | $45,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The American Hospital of Paris Foundation | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Rowdy Girl Sanctuary Inc | $33,300 | 4 | 3% |
| Museum of Arts and Design | $31,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Life Camps Incorporated | $28,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Beautiful Self Inc | $27,000 | 2 | 28% |
| The King's Trust USA Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 103 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 193 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Samuel J & Ethel Lefrak Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 94 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Select Equity Group Foundation · Dalia and Larry Leeds Family Foundation · Pledgeling Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund · California Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Loreen Arbus Foundation · Paulson Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Samuel J & Ethel Lefrak Charitable Trust
- How much does Samuel J & Ethel Lefrak Charitable Trust give?
- Samuel J & Ethel Lefrak Charitable Trust reported 70 grants totaling $349,550 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 68 and 94 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Samuel J & Ethel Lefrak Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (24%), Religion (20%), Education (16%).
- Who are Samuel J & Ethel Lefrak Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Charity Global Inc ($120k), Wildlife Sos ($93k), Mercy for Animals Inc ($80k).
- Does Samuel J & Ethel Lefrak Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 74% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Samuel J & Ethel Lefrak Charitable Trust 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 Samuel J & Ethel Lefrak Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The New York Community Trust, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is Samuel J & Ethel Lefrak Charitable Trust based?
- Samuel J & Ethel Lefrak Charitable Trust is based in DE.
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