Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Lenfest Scholars Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,276,295
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 6
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $65M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Lenfest Scholars Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $1.5M | 40% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $1.9M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $2.3M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $1.5M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $1.4M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $982k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $1.1M | 100% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $974k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest grants in FY2025.
| SCHEDULE OF SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS | $1,276,295 |
| SCHEDULE OF FINALIST GRANTS - INFOR | $131,000 |
| SCHEDULE OF SPECIAL EDUCATION EXPEN | $104,065 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $30,000 |
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE FUND | $20,000 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND | $10,000 |
| RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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About The Lenfest Scholars Foundation Inc
- How much does The Lenfest Scholars Foundation Inc give?
- The Lenfest Scholars Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $1,591,360 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Lenfest Scholars Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (97%), Philanthropy (3%).
- Does The Lenfest Scholars Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lenfest Scholars Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is The Lenfest Scholars Foundation Inc based?
- The Lenfest Scholars Foundation Inc is based in PA.
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