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The Assouline-Lichten Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Assouline-Lichten 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.

$84k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$72k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$161kEducation$97kArts & Culture$25kHealth$12kScience & Tech$11kRecreation & Sports$6kEnvironment$6kHuman Services$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $11k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
$250
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIEND OF TEL AVIV UNIVERS$72,250
AMERICAN FRIEND OF HEBREW UNIVERSIT$5,460
INNOVATION AFRICA$1,000
PEARLMAN MUSIC CENTER$1,000
JOIN ISRAEL$1,000
FRIENDS OF OFANIM$1,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL$500
SHELTER ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY$350
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$250
THE JEWISH MUSEUM$250
VITAL EDGE FUND$150
THE NATURE CONERVANCY$103
SHELTER ISLAND PBA$100
SHELTER ISLAND FIRE DEPT$100
SHELTER ISLAND AMBULANCE FOUNDATION$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%JOIN ISRAEL: $1k → 6%SENIOR CITEZENS FOUNDATION OF SI: $200 → 7%SENIOR CITEZENS FOUNDATION OF SI: $200 → 7%SENIOR CITEZENS FOUNDATION OF SI: $100 → 7%SENIOR CITEZENS FOUNDATION OF SI: $50 → 7%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $250 → 17%JOIN ISRAEL: $500 → 17%JOIN ISRAEL: $500 → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT: $500 → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $100 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
SD
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$294k · 44 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

44 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
46

Total granted

$294k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+41%

Still filing today

66%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $134k · revenue +40%
  • FRIENDS OF OFANIM INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +11%
  • TP
    THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +185%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ADVENTURE PROJECT CORPgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +28%
  • PM
    PERLMAN MUSIC CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
3
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
4
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
5
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
8
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
9
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
10
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gatestone Institute; the most unlike its peers is Vital Edge Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 97 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/55
Grantees still filing
44/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $134,360 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INCAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $10,500 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNO…THE ADVENTURE PROJECT CORP: $6,500 · InternationalFRIENDS OF OFANIM INC: $6,000 · International+8 more: $10,490 · International+8 moreAMERICAN FRIEND OF TEL AVIV UNIVERS: $88,250 · OtherAMERICAN FRIEND OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER: $10,400 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCERPEARLMAN MUSIC CENTER: $5,859 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · Other+52 more: $29,915 · Other+52 moreTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC: $4,200 · Arts & CultureTHE PLAY PRODUCTION COMPANY INC: $2,250 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $2,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $1,150 · Arts & CultureHONESTREPORTINGCOM INC: $950 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $740 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $1,360 · Arts & CultureMACCABI USA INC: $6,180 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $300 · Recreation & SportsSHELTER ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY SOCIETY: $1,725 · EducationSHELTER ISLAND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $850 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $301 · EducationGATESTONE INSTITUTE: $250 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $250 · EducationBLACK GIRLS CODE INC: $250 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $200 · EducationFIGHTING CHANCE INC: $150 · Education+1 more: $1 · EducationJOIN ISRAEL INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesUNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $600 · Human ServicesSENIOR CTZNS FOUNDTN OF SHLTR ISL: $550 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $250 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $855 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN OF PROMISE NYC: $250 · Crime & Legal
International$167,850Other$139,424Arts & Culture$12,650Recreation & Sports$6,480Education$3,977Human Services$3,400Crime & Legal$1,105

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $134,360 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADVENTURE PROJECT CORP: $6,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMACCABI USA INC: $6,180 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF OFANIM INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC: $4,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINNOVATION AFRICA: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA-ISRAEL FRIENDSHIP LEAGUE INC: $3,200 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $2,682 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PLAY PRODUCTION COMPANY INC: $2,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOIN ISRAEL INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSHELTER ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY SOCIETY: $1,725 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetINTEGRITY FIRST FOR AMERICA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $1,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHONESTREPORTINGCOM INC: $950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $855 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER ISLAND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $850 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $740 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER ISLAND AMBULANCE FOUNDATION: $600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSHELTER ISLAND HISTORY MUSEUM: $558 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR CTZNS FOUNDTN OF SHLTR ISL: $550 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVITAL EDGE FUND: $400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $301 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD MAGAZINE INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGATESTONE INSTITUTE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBATTERY DANCE CORPORATIN DBA BATTERY D: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNGER SOLUTIONS NEW YORK INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN OF PROMISE NYC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK GIRLS CODE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Design Center Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORGANIC CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER ISLAND FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $108 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ADVENTURE PROJECT CORP ↗
  • Who funds MACCABI USA INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF OFANIM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds INNOVATION AFRICA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA-ISRAEL FRIENDSHIP LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PLAY PRODUCTION COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds JOIN ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds INTEGRITY FIRST FOR AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HONESTREPORTINGCOM INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER ISLAND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
  • Who funds UNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER ISLAND AMBULANCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER ISLAND HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR CTZNS FOUNDTN OF SHLTR ISL ↗
  • Who funds NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION ↗

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 Goldman Sachs Cha…Kasowitz Family Found…Mutual of America Fou…Combined Jewish Phila…Jewish Community Fede…Jewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY18.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Kasowitz Family Foundation Inc · Mutual of America Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Assouline-Lichten Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Assouline-Lichten Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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 97 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home