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The Lenke Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$210k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Education$2.8MRecreation & Sports$1.3MHealth$610kHuman Services$571kFood & Nutrition$440kReligion$186kArts & Culture$84kScience & Tech$80kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $495k
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$484k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY$210,000
ST PAUL THE APOSTLE CHURCH$100,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$75,000
SETTING SCOLIOSIS STRAIGHT$60,000
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$50,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS$25,000
FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$25,000
NATIONAL SPINE HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
SOLVE MECFS INITIATIVE (SOLVE)$5,000
SUN RIVER HEALTH FOUNDATION$2,500
THE PAULIST FATHERS$2,000
SACRED HEART HOME HEALTH$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOUR CHILDREN: $25k → 13%THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER: $20k → 20%ST MARTHA'S HALL: $587 → 21%CAMP SUNRISE INC: $3k → 11%HOUR CHILDREN: $25k → 13%THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER: $20k → 20%THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER: $15k → 20%THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER: $15k → 20%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
IL
NY
MA
NV
IN
PA
NJ
CA
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 24 repeat orgs$555k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
31

Total granted

$4.5M
$420k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+42%

Still filing today

75%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • CU
    Creighton University
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +56%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2025 · $829k · revenue +76%
  • FELICIAN UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $426k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • RC
    ROMAN CATHOLIC FOUNDATIONBEYOND SUNDAY
    one grant, 2017 · $75k
  • BC
    BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +17%
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
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled Maintaining the

The mission of hospital for special surgery is to provide the highest quality patient care, improve mobility, and enhance the quality of life for all and to advance the science of orthopedic surgery, rheumatology, and their related…

Health
10
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
12
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is God's Love We Deliver Inc; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 63 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
31/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Creighton University: $1,330,000 · EducationCreighton UniversityUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $1,190,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du LacWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $829,486 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYFELICIAN UNIVERSITY: $426,000 · EducationFELICIAN UNIVERSITY+3 more: $45,500 · EducationVILLA DUCHESNE & OAK HILL: $570,000 · OtherVILLA DUCHESNE & OAK HILLST MARY & ST LOUIS ABBEY: $160,000 · OtherST MARY & ST LOUIS ABBEYIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST PAUL THE APOSTLE CHURCH: $100,000 · OtherST PAUL THE APOSTLE CHURCHROMAN CATHOLIC FOUNDATIONBEYOND SUNDAY: $75,000 · OtherFOCOS: $75,000 · OtherBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $50,000 · OtherNorthwestern University: $85,000 · OtherNorthwestern University+27 more: $261,111 · Other+27 moreSETTING SCOLIOSIS STRAIGHT FOUNDATION: $143,250 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $125,000 · HealthFoundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine Inc: $25,000 · Health+8 more: $41,000 · HealthGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $115,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $75,000 · Food & NutritionNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $55,000 · Food & NutritionGLOBAL SPINE OUTREACH: $144,529 · InternationalCRUDEM FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · InternationalFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $125,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesHOUR CHILDREN INC: $50,000 · Human Services+2 more: $3,087 · Human Services
Education$3,820,986Other$1,476,111Health$334,250Food & Nutrition$245,000International$169,529Community Improvement$125,000Human Services$123,087

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 budgetCreighton University: $1,330,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $1,190,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $829,486 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFELICIAN UNIVERSITY: $426,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGLOBAL SPINE OUTREACH: $144,529 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetSETTING SCOLIOSIS STRAIGHT FOUNDATION: $143,250 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $125,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $125,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $115,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwestern University: $85,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOUR CHILDREN INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MAGIC HOUSE: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetST ANDREWS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJERICHO PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $19,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOSPITALITY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSan Diego Spine Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAGES ST LOUIS: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEDIATRIC SPINE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGATEWAY TO HOPE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASTHMA AND ALLERGY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Spinal Injury Association: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP SUNRISE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetACHIEVEMENTS UNLIMITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREADY READERS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST MARTHA'S HALL: $587 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.

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.

St Louis Community Fo…Sander FoundationEdward Jones Foundati…St Louis Community Fo…Employees Community F…Commerce Bancshares F…The Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Renaissance Charitabl…Charities Aid Foundat…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Lenke Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lenke Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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 63 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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