New York · Private foundation
The Lenke 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.
- $590k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $210,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $484k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations The Lenke Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 12 | $540k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $385k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $437k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $451k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $691k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $595k | 70% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $565k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $1.1M | 83% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creighton University | $1,330,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Washington University | $829,486 | 5 | 0% |
| Felician University | $426,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Mary & St Louis Abbey | $160,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Global Spine Outreach | $144,529 | 6 | 5% |
| Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation | $143,250 | 8 | 2% |
| Food Bank for New York City | $125,000 | 6 | 0% |
| New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc | $125,000 | 3 | 0% |
| God's Love We Deliver Inc | $115,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $85,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lenke Foundation 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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Sander Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
About The Lenke Foundation
- How much does The Lenke Foundation give?
- The Lenke Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $590,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Lenke Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (44%), Recreation & Sports (20%), Health (10%).
- Who are The Lenke Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Creighton University ($1.3M), Washington University ($829k), Felician University ($426k).
- Does The Lenke Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lenke 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 Lenke Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Sander Foundation, Edward Jones Foundation.
- Where is The Lenke Foundation based?
- The Lenke Foundation is based in NY.
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