New Jersey · Private foundation
The Lautenberg Foundation
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.
- $169k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2024
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $60,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 55
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 5% of the organizations The Lautenberg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 38 | $157k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $322k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $358k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $410k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 48 | $394k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $482k | 5% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $235k | 13% |
| FY2017 | 41 | $420k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamilton Partnership for Paterson Inc | $650,000 | 6 | 19% |
| The Mount Sinai Hospital | $450,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $310,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $190,500 | 7 | 0% |
| American Friends of Hebrew University Inc | $160,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Vail Mountain School | $57,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Eagle Valley Land Trust | $44,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $41,100 | 7 | 0% |
| Bnai Vail Congregation Inc | $35,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Federation for Jewish Philanthropy of Upper Fairfield County | $26,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 60 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($441k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lautenberg 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: Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Florin Family Foundation Inc · The Russell Berrie Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · National Philanthropic Trust · Columbia Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About The Lautenberg Foundation
- How much does The Lautenberg Foundation give?
- The Lautenberg Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $168,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 55 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Lautenberg Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (32%), Community Improvement (22%), Environment (12%).
- Who are The Lautenberg Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hamilton Partnership for Paterson Inc ($650k), The Mount Sinai Hospital ($450k), Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($310k).
- Does The Lautenberg Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lautenberg Foundation 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 Lautenberg Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Cleveland, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is The Lautenberg Foundation based?
- The Lautenberg Foundation is based in NJ.
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