Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Karen and Herbert Lotman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $334k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $139,521
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 11
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations The Karen and Herbert Lotman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $209k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $240k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $240k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $968k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $188k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $11k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $295k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prmh Inc | $775,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Breakthrough T1d | $495,595 | 4 | 0% |
| Macula Vision Research Foundation | $295,000 | 1 | 18% |
| The Philly Service Award | $105,000 | 3 | 22% |
| Main Line Art Center | $100,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Philadelphia Region | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Marks Church | $21,060 | 4 | n/a |
| The University of the Arts | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wild Project Productions Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Archer School for Girls Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prmh Inc | $775,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Breakthrough T1d | $495,595 | 4 | 0% |
| Macula Vision Research Foundation | $295,000 | 1 | 18% |
| The Philly Service Award | $105,000 | 3 | 22% |
| Main Line Art Center | $100,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Philadelphia Region | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Marks Church | $21,060 | 4 | n/a |
| The University of the Arts | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wild Project Productions Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Archer School for Girls Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Barnes Foundation | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($283k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Karen and Herbert Lotman Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
Compare The Karen and Herbert Lotman Foundation with peer funders
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About The Karen and Herbert Lotman Foundation
- How much does The Karen and Herbert Lotman Foundation give?
- The Karen and Herbert Lotman Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $334,316 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Karen and Herbert Lotman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (39%), Human Services (30%), Philanthropy (18%).
- Who are The Karen and Herbert Lotman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Prmh Inc ($775k), Breakthrough T1d ($496k), Macula Vision Research Foundation ($295k).
- Does The Karen and Herbert Lotman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Karen and Herbert Lotman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Karen and Herbert Lotman 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 The Karen and Herbert Lotman Foundation based?
- The Karen and Herbert Lotman Foundation is based in PA.
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