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The Judith & Lester Lieberman Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$88k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
47
Itemized grants FY2024
39
Organizations funded FY2022
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Itemized, FY2024
$69k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$100
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,180
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$152k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
82% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$32kArts & Culture$30kPhilanthropy$26kEducation$3kHealth$2kHuman Services$646Food & Nutrition$350Animals$300Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($43k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Judith & Lester Lieberman Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Newark Museum Association: $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChabad of Se Morris County Inc: $2,360 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAlzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMostly Music Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHias Inc: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInterfaith Food Pantry Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoundabout Theatre Company Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Valerie Fund: $72 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOpportunity Project Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAdler Aphasia Center: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Public Radio: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Orange Pba Local #25 Inc: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARP Foundation: $12 over 1y, 0.0% 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 21.

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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.

Investors Foundation IncNJ13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Investors Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 The Judith & Lester Lieberman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Judith & Lester Lieberman 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 The Judith & Lester Lieberman Foundation

How much does The Judith & Lester Lieberman Foundation give?
The Judith & Lester Lieberman Foundation reported 47 itemized grants totaling $69,389, out of $87,607 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does The Judith & Lester Lieberman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (4%), Arts & Culture (3%), Philanthropy (3%).
Who are The Judith & Lester Lieberman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: The Newark Museum Association ($23k), New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation ($6k), Marthas Vineyard Hebrew Center ($3k).
Does The Judith & Lester Lieberman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Judith & Lester Lieberman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Investors Foundation Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Judith & Lester Lieberman Foundation based?
The Judith & Lester Lieberman Foundation is based in NJ.

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 69 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $68k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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