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The Lempert Family 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.

$126k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$330kPhilanthropy$89kEducation$18kHealth$15kFood & Nutrition$13kCivil Rights$8kReligion$7kYouth Development$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$52k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift$75,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
HIAS$10,000
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE$4,000
AMHERST COLLEGE ALUMNI FUND$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
FORWARD ASSOCIATION$2,000
MIRACLE FEET$1,000
LUBAVITCH YOUTH ORGANIZATION$180
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

US giving: 90% of grant dollars ($442k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 10% that went abroad ($50k) is mapped below.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TOUCH FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
NM
NC

Beyond the US: 10% of all-years giving ($50k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Israel$50k · 2 grants
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Lempert Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Lempert Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 15% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$345k · 17 repeat orgs$119k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
14

Total granted

$345k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+12%

Still filing today

47%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HI
    HIAS INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $195k · revenue +114%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $24k · revenue +21%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $17k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • HE
    HIAS EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
  • AI
    AMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • TH
    TOUCH HEALTH INC
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -61%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
2
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
3
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
4
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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5
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
6
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
7
Alight

Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…

International
8
Hand in Hand American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Isra

To promote partnership and coexistence among jewish and arab citizens of israel by providing support for integrated schools and providing funding for and assisting in program development in connection with israeli nonprofits with similar…

International
9
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
10
United Israel Appeal Inc

The principal function of uia is to administer and supervise the funds allocated for philanthropic purposes related to immigration and absorption of humanitarian migrants to israel and jewish identity programs in israel and the former…

International
11
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
12
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Forward Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is Whitney Museum of American Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIAS INC: $195,060 · InternationalHIAS INCSave The Children Federation Inc: $24,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation IncInternational Rescue Committee INC: $16,500 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC+1 more: $1,800 · InternationalFidelity Investment Charitable Gift: $75,000 · OtherFidelity Investment Charitable GiftIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHIAS EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST: $12,500 · OtherHIAS EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EASTAMHERST COLLEGE ALUMNI FUND: $10,000 · OtherFOOD BANK OF HUDSON VALLEY: $8,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $7,000 · Other+13 more: $31,010 · Other+13 morePEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $25,005 · PhilanthropyAMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyMIRACLEFEET: $6,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,500 · HealthThe Forward Association Inc: $3,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $2,000 · Arts & CulturePOETS HOUSE INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $255 · Arts & CultureANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $6,000 · Civil RightsTOUCH HEALTH INC: $5,000 · Human Services
International$237,360Other$193,510Philanthropy$35,005Health$9,000Arts & Culture$6,255Civil Rights$6,000Human Services$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHIAS INC: $195,060 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $25,005 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $24,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $16,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIRACLEFEET: $6,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTOUCH HEALTH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Forward Association Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH STAR FUND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLiteracy Volunteers of Santa Fe: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPOETS HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRUFF HOUSE RESCUE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $170 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $85 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 HIAS INC ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION ↗
  • Who funds MIRACLEFEET ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds TOUCH HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds The Forward Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTH STAR FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe ↗
  • Who funds POETS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds RUFF HOUSE RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
  • Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Lempert Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lempert Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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