Illinois · Private foundation
The Lehman-Stamm Family Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $859k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 106
- Grants FY2025
- 76
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 58 to 76
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Lehman-Stamm Family Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 90 | $776k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 76 | $605k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 61 | $591k | 46% |
| FY2021 | 59 | $412k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 73 | $455k | 82% |
| FY2019 | 64 | $449k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 58 | $409k | n/a |
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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planned Parenthood of Illinois | $175,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU Inc | $115,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc | $114,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest | $97,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Crossroads Fund Inc | $87,540 | 5 | 0% |
| The National Public Housing Museum | $76,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Howard Brown Health Center | $67,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Northlight Theatre Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Center for Constitutional Rights | $52,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Chicago Media Project | $47,500 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 101 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 141 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lehman-Stamm Family Fund 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: The Kellcie Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Chicago Foundation for Women · Northwestern University · Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Lehman-Stamm Family Fund
- How much does The Lehman-Stamm Family Fund give?
- The Lehman-Stamm Family Fund reported 106 grants totaling $858,535 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 58 and 76 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Lehman-Stamm Family Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (19%), Civil Rights (18%), Health (11%).
- Who are The Lehman-Stamm Family Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Planned Parenthood of Illinois ($175k), The Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU Inc ($115k), Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc ($114k).
- Does The Lehman-Stamm Family Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lehman-Stamm Family Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Lehman-Stamm Family Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Kellcie Fund, The Chicago Community Trust, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.
- Where is The Lehman-Stamm Family Fund based?
- The Lehman-Stamm Family Fund is based in IL.
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