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The Lester & Grace Maslow Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$105k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 16
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$632k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations The Lester & Grace Maslow Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthEducationInternationalEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$105k64%
FY20239$95k67%
FY20228$74k0%
FY202111$100k36%
FY202011$104k27%
FY201916$112k6%
FY201815$131k33%
FY201713$110kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$245kArts & Culture$237kPhilanthropy$143kEducation$65kHuman Services$50kCivil Rights$41kEnvironment$5kYouth Development$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 27 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($285k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lester & Grace Maslow Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation: $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Valley Hospital Foundation Inc: $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetParlance Chamber Concerts Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetChristian Health Care Center: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetElaine Kaufman Cultural Center Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSunrise Day Camps Association Inc: $30,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Myelodysplastic Syndromes Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWashington University: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Montclair Art Museum: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCornell University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAckerman Institute for the Family: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Hebrew University Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ed Asner Family Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFeel the Beat Corp: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetThe State Theatre Regional Arts Center at New Brunswick Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGina Gibney Dance Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKula for Karma New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPrevent Child Abuse America: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAutism Speaks Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarlem Grown Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIsrael Cancer Research Fund Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBrookville Center for Childrens Services Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Kesem National: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Community Center of Si Inc: $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ18.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Stephen & Mary Birch Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · 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.

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About The Lester & Grace Maslow Foundation Inc

How much does The Lester & Grace Maslow Foundation Inc give?
The Lester & Grace Maslow Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $105,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Lester & Grace Maslow Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (28%), Arts & Culture (27%), Philanthropy (17%).
Who are The Lester & Grace Maslow Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation ($70k), The Valley Hospital Foundation Inc ($65k), Parlance Chamber Concerts Inc ($40k).
Does The Lester & Grace Maslow Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Lester & Grace Maslow Foundation Inc 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 Lester & Grace Maslow Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
Where is The Lester & Grace Maslow Foundation Inc based?
The Lester & Grace Maslow Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 40 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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