Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Lester G Abeloff Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2025
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $450,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 53
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $25M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations The Lester G Abeloff Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k 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 | 54 | $1.0M | 31% |
| FY2024 | 53 | $808k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $825k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $949k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $598k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $278k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $627k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $471k | 12% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Resource Center of the Poconos | $1,100,000 | 9 | 90% |
| Salvation Army East Stroudsburg Corps | $881,100 | 8 | n/a |
| Developmental Education Services of Monroe County Inc | $734,500 | 9 | 8% |
| Jewish Family Service of Northeastern Pennsylvania | $120,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Pocono Mountains United Way | $113,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Yeshivath Beth Moshe-The Milton Eisner Yeshiva High School Of | $110,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Jewish Home of Eastern Pennsylvania Elan Skilled Nursing and Rehab | $100,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Monroe County Historical Association Inc | $80,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Monroe County Meals on Wheels Inc | $77,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Jewish Fellowship of Hemlock Farms Inc | $61,000 | 5 | n/a |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Lester G Abeloff Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Essa Bank & Trust Foundation · R Dale & Frances M Hughes Fdn 47f100011 · Allone Charities · Mount Airy Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · The Weiler Family Foundation Inc · Ppl Foundation · Hughes Foundation Inc · Pocono Mountains United Way · The Ann and Joseph Farda Foundation · Todd and Shari Nelson Family Fdn Inc · Robert H Spitz Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Lester G Abeloff Foundation
- How much does The Lester G Abeloff Foundation give?
- The Lester G Abeloff Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $1,492,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 53 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Lester G Abeloff Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (37%), Religion (28%), Human Services (22%).
- Who are The Lester G Abeloff Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish Resource Center of the Poconos ($1.1M), Salvation Army East Stroudsburg Corps ($881k), Developmental Education Services of Monroe County Inc ($735k).
- Does The Lester G Abeloff Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lester G Abeloff Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Lester G Abeloff Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Essa Bank & Trust Foundation, R Dale & Frances M Hughes Fdn 47f100011, Allone Charities.
- Where is The Lester G Abeloff Foundation based?
- The Lester G Abeloff Foundation is based in PA.
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