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The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family 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.

$757k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
32
Grants FY2024
36
Organizations funded FY2023
31%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
36 to 67
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$224k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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 arriving29$547k21%
FY202336$903k31%
FY202250$1.0M24%
FY202150$1.5M32%
FY202043$2.0M19%
FY201954$3.0M37%
FY201866$2.8M47%
FY201767$1.5Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$6.1MReligion$1.9MPhilanthropy$1.9MHealth$1.0MRecreation & Sports$999kArts & Culture$818kHuman Services$817kScience & Tech$355kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
WV
VA
MD
DE
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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 142 grantees
All grantees of The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Johns Hopkins University$3,500,00040%
Georgetown University$1,610,00050%
Washington Nationals Philanthropies$711,60074%
Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington DC Inc$671,10081%
American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc$350,00020%
Ohr Kodesh Congregation$309,2144n/a
Charles E Smith Jewish Day School of Greater Washington Inc$300,00060%
Sixth & I Synagogue Inc$260,00071%
Bender Jcc of Greater Washington$251,80061%
National Children Museum$200,00024%
Anti-Defamation League$189,55070%
Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy$164,10042%
Chabad House Bowery Inc$160,0007n/a
Seeds of Peace Inc$149,98061%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$133,63080%
The George Washington University$130,00020%
Georgetown Day School$115,00030%
Special Olympics Inc$100,00050%
Imagination Stage Inc$98,00071%
A Wider Circle Inc$92,50060%
Sunflower Bakery Inc$72,650310%
Food & Friends Inc$61,66640%
Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation's Capital$60,00020%
Volunteer Legal Advocates$60,00051%
Little Folks School Inc$55,00061%
Vassar College$50,00040%
Congressional Award Foundation$50,00051%
Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation$49,64060%
Children's Hospital Foundation$44,40040%
Human Rights First$40,00040%
The Ellington Fund$40,00041%
Fight for Children Inc$38,50042%
Youth Leadership Foundation Inc$35,00041%
American University$35,00020%
Birthright Israel Foundation$30,00030%
National Building Museum$30,00020%
Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc$30,00030%
National Jewish Health$29,20030%
Israel Tennis Centers Foundation Inc$26,80020%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington and Affiliate$26,25040%
Suburban Hospital Foundation Inc$25,00010%
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn$25,00020%
Casa of Baltimore County Inc$25,00051%
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc$25,0001n/a
American Heart Association Inc$24,32520%
The Defiant Requiem Foundation$24,00031%
Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc$23,82360%
Palm Springs Art Museum$22,88540%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$20,00010%
Sparkyouth NYC Inc$20,00040%
The Koby Mandell Foundation Inc$20,00022%
American Friends of Natal Inc$20,00010%
Tzedek DC Inc$18,00051%
Park Avenue Synagogue Inc$18,0001n/a
Special Love Inc$17,50021%
Blood Cancer United Inc$16,50030%
National Child Research Center$15,00030%
Feynman School Inc$15,00021%
Trustar Youth Foundation$14,02427%
Main Street Connect Inc$12,50030%
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children$12,50010%
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc$12,50010%
Chadtough Defeat Dipg Foundation$12,00030%
Freshfarm Markets$12,00020%
White Truck Charitable Foundation$12,000374%
N Street Village Inc$12,00030%
Lupus Research Alliance Inc$10,00010%
Children's Law Center Inc$10,00010%
District of Columbia College Access Program$10,00010%
Building Bridges Across the River Inc$10,00010%
One Family Fund$10,00010%
Devon C Rubenstein Foundation$10,00013%
Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc$10,00060%
Duke Ellington School of the Arts Projects$10,00010%
University of Maryland College Park Foundation Inc$10,0001n/a
Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc$10,00010%
Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc$10,00020%
Chabad-Lubavitch of Maryland Inc$10,0002n/a
Hold on to Your Music Inc$10,00011%
Hope for Henry Foundation$10,00011%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc$10,00010%
Habitat for Humanity Metro Maryland Inc$10,00010%
American Friends of Lubavitch$10,00010%
Queen Anne's County Free Library$10,00010%
Exceptional Minds$10,00020%
Michael Mosier Defeat Dipg Foundation$9,00040%
Habitat for Humanity of Washington DC & Northern Virginia Inc$8,74010%
Chelsea Piers Foundation$8,50021%
Marine Raider Foundation$8,00011%
Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind$7,50010%
Horton's Kids Inc$7,50010%
Joseph Robert Shaw Foundation Inc$7,00022%
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History$5,0001n/a
Sasha Bruce Youthwork Inc$5,0001n/a
International Jewish Sports Foundation Inc$5,0001n/a
Cia Officers Memorial Foundation$5,00010%
The Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless Inc$5,00010%
Printmaking Legacy Project Inc$5,000132%
New York University$5,00010%
Smithsonian Institution$5,00010%
DC Scores$5,00010%
Montgomery County Parks Foundation Inc$5,00020%
Day One Early Learning Community Inc$5,00010%
Student Leadership Network Inc$5,00010%
The Lilabean Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Unity Games Inc$5,00013%
DC Preservation League$5,00011%
Tikva Corp$5,00010%
The Legal Aid Society$5,00010%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$4,00010%
Most Valuable Kids Inc$4,00011%
Israel Emergency Alliance$3,80030%
J Street Education Fund Inc$3,60010%
Friends of Yad Sarah Inc$3,30010%
Soldiers to Sidelines$3,00010%
National Womans Party$2,50011%
New York Abortion Access Fund$2,50010%
Montgomery Hospice Inc$2,50010%
Iris Music Project$2,50011%
Jewish Family Service of the Desert$2,50010%
Many Hands Inc$2,00020%
Eaglebank Foundation Inc$2,00011%
City Year Inc$2,00010%
Momentum Unlimited Inc$1,80010%
World Jewish Congress (American Section) Inc$1,60020%
Fundacion Bechara Inc$1,00011%
DC Students Construction Trades Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Washington Tennis & Education Foundation$1,00010%
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc$1,00010%
East End Hospice Inc$1,00010%
American Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra$1,00020%
Casa Inc$1,00010%
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$1,00010%
Robert D Manfred Scholarship Fund$1,0001n/a
Pennsylvania State University$1,0001n/a
Bikur Cholim of Greater Washington Inc$1,00010%
Autism Speaks Inc$75010%
Jackson Health Foundation Inc$50010%
One La-Iaf$50010%
Patrick Andrew Shifflett Character & Edu Scholarship$5001n/a
Villanova University$25010%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$8010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 130 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJohns Hopkins University: $3,500,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgetown University: $1,610,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWashington Nationals Philanthropies: $711,600 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetEdlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington DC Inc: $671,100 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc: $350,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCharles E Smith Jewish Day School of Greater Washington Inc: $300,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSixth & I Synagogue Inc: $260,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetBender Jcc of Greater Washington: $251,800 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetNational Children Museum: $200,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $189,550 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWashington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy: $164,100 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetSeeds of Peace Inc: $149,980 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $133,630 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $130,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgetown Day School: $115,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSpecial Olympics Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetImagination Stage Inc: $98,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetA Wider Circle Inc: $92,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSunflower Bakery Inc: $72,650 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetFood & Friends Inc: $61,666 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMilton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation's Capital: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVolunteer Legal Advocates: $60,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLittle Folks School Inc: $55,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetVassar College: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCongressional Award Foundation: $50,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSibley Memorial Hospital Foundation: $49,640 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Foundation: $44,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Rights First: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Ellington Fund: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFight for Children Inc: $38,500 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetYouth Leadership Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican University: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Building Museum: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Jewish Health: $29,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael Tennis Centers Foundation Inc: $26,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington and Affiliate: $26,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSuburban Hospital Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCasa of Baltimore County Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $24,325 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Defiant Requiem Foundation: $24,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: $23,823 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Springs Art Museum: $22,885 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSparkyouth NYC Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Koby Mandell Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% 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 130.

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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.

The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC41.9× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Galena-Yorktown Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Bender Foundation Inc · The Gary & Carol Berman Family Foundation Inc · Alan and Amy Meltzer Family Foundation Inc · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company

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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About The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc

How much does The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc give?
The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc reported 32 grants totaling $756,928 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 67 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (40%), Religion (13%), Philanthropy (13%).
Who are The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Johns Hopkins University ($3.5M), Georgetown University ($1.6M), Washington Nationals Philanthropies ($712k).
Does The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family 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 The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc.
Where is The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc based?
The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc is based in MD.

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 180 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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