· Private foundation
The Lichtenstein Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $121k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD BANK FOR NYC | $65,000 |
| THE DALTON SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| WHITTIER COLLEGE | $18,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $15,000 |
| LOS ANGELES YOUTH NETWORK DBA YOUTH EMERGING STRONGER | $13,000 |
| NATIONAL NETWORK FOR ABORTION | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN HERALD ASSOCIATION INC DBA THE BOWERY MISSION | $10,000 |
| ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER | $7,500 |
| PROJECT RENEWAL | $5,000 |
| CHRYSALIS CENTER | $5,000 |
| FOOD FORWARD | $5,000 |
| CORO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $5,000 |
| CHIRSTOPHER ROBIN PRESCHOOL | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
43 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- DSDALTON SCHOOLS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $350k · revenue +16%
FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY8× · 2017–2025 · $220k · revenue +113%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2025 · $174k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
- KLKIPP LIBERATION COLLEGE PREPone grant, 2017 · $5k
- CSCOMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY NYone grant, 2017 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Renewal Inc and the most unlike its peers is Whittier College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 72 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DALTON SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds Whittier College ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Christian Herald Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Los Angeles Youth Network ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT RENEWAL INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CORO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds NEWSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR FIELD RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Physicians For Reproductive Health ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Sempra Foundation · California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Lichtenstein Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Public Justice Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.