Pennsylvania · 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.
- $317k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $85,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 38
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations The Lehman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 30 | $317k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $165k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $244k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $239k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $180k | 4% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $136k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $97k | 8% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $57k | 39% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| School of American Ballet Inc | $141,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Sun Valley Summer Symphony Inc | $96,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Higher Ground USA Inc | $76,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Fountain House Inc | $70,773 | 9 | 0% |
| The American Himalayan Foundation | $55,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Nepal Seeds | $54,000 | 9 | 6% |
| Lee Pesky Learning Center Inc | $53,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Video Volunteers | $38,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc | $37,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Partnership to End Addiction | $33,282 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($532k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Lehman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 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
How this is measured
About The Lehman Foundation
- How much does The Lehman Foundation give?
- The Lehman Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $317,030 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Lehman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (46%), Education (11%), International (10%).
- Who are The Lehman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: School of American Ballet Inc ($141k), Sun Valley Summer Symphony Inc ($96k), Higher Ground USA Inc ($76k).
- Does The Lehman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lehman 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 Lehman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Spur Community Foundation Inc, Swig Foundation, Bucks County Conference & Visitors Bureau.
- Where is The Lehman Foundation based?
- The Lehman Foundation is based in PA.
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