· Private foundation
The Lehman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sun Valley Music Festival | $85,000 |
| School of American Ballet | $60,000 |
| Higher Ground Sun Valley | $20,000 |
| Wood River Land Trust Co | $20,000 |
| Fountain House Inc | $15,000 |
| Video Volunteers | $10,000 |
| American Himalayan Foundation | $10,000 |
| The Mountain Fund | $10,000 |
| Community Library Association | $10,000 |
| Nepal Seeds | $10,000 |
| Mint Theater Company | $8,000 |
| Blaine County Recreation District | $5,000 |
| Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation | $5,000 |
| Princess Grace Foundation | $5,000 |
| Moore College of Art | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SOSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC6× · 2020–2025 · $141k · revenue +141%
- HGHIGHER GROUND USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $76k · revenue +73%
- FHFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +119%
Funded once
- LTLiberty Theatreone grant, 2022 · $10k
- VFVETS2INDUSTRY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SVSUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -30%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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 npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
To encourage, sponsor, and promote innovative work in the arts created and presented by individuals, groups, and organizations.
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 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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership to End Addiction and the most unlike its peers is The Hortulus Farm Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 74 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER GROUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds The American Himalayan Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEPAL SEEDS ↗
- Who funds LEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VIDEO VOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO ↗
- Who funds The Community Library Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MISSION CONTINUES ↗
- Who funds MINT THEATER COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ISABEL O'NEIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fishermans Mark ↗
- Who funds No Greater Sacrifice Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOWMAN'S HILL WILDFLOWER PRESERVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VETS2INDUSTRY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ARTS EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HORTULUS FARM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LIBERTY THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds ISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Spur Community Foundation Inc · Swig Foundation · Bucks County Conference & Visitors Bureau · Penn Community Bank Foundation · Mott Family Foundation Inc · Michael S Engl Family Foundation Inc · The Quinn Family Foundation Inc · L & H Foundation · The Pearl Family Foundation Inc · The Judith and Marshall Meyer Foundation Inc · Boswell Family Foundation · Foundations Community Partnership
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Lehman Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.