· Private foundation
The Lebensfeld Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $655k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $900k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $200,000 |
| PRINCETON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| YALE LAW SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| BANCROFT NEUROHEALTH | $100,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| RAMAZ SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC | $50,000 |
| ST GREGORY THE GREAT ACADEMY | $45,000 |
| TRENTON AREA SOUP KITCHEN | $45,000 |
| CAPE ELIZABETH LAND TRUST | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| HOMEFRONT INC | $35,000 |
| AMERICAN JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $940k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
66 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
The Trustees of Princeton University5× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +8%- BABANCROFT A NEW JERSEY NON PROFIT CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $800k · revenue +108%
- NFNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +19%
Funded once
TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +20%- SOSCHOOL OF THE AMERICAN BALLETone grant, 2017 · $100k
PRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +16%
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.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
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.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
70 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. 70 of the 105 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds BANCROFT A NEW JERSEY NON PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Cape Elizabeth Land Trust ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN FOUNDATION FOR THE HOLY LAND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds LAKE AGAWAM CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRUCE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC ↗
- Who funds DEBBIE MARKS LAKE FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Meryl & Charles Witmer Charitable Foundation · Robertson Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lebensfeld Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lebensfeld Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Interfaith Caregivers of Greater Mercer County Inc: 18% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: 10% of income from government
- Homefront Inc: 9% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
- Rabbinical College of America: 5% of income from government
- Bruce Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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