New York · 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.
- $230k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- 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 Lichtenstein Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 | 22 | $230k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $198k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $318k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $67k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $187k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $174k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $120k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $121k | 14% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dalton Schools Inc | $350,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Food Bank for New York City | $220,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $173,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $135,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Temple Israel of the City of New York | $66,195 | 6 | n/a |
| Coalition for the Homeless Inc | $45,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St John's University New York | $43,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Whittier College | $43,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Christian Herald Association Inc | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Youth Network | $33,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($229k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lichtenstein Foundation Inc 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: 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
How this is measured
About The Lichtenstein Foundation Inc
- How much does The Lichtenstein Foundation Inc give?
- The Lichtenstein Foundation Inc reported 22 grants totaling $229,950 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Lichtenstein Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Food & Nutrition (16%), Civil Rights (11%).
- Who are The Lichtenstein Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dalton Schools Inc ($350k), Food Bank for New York City ($220k), Johns Hopkins University ($174k).
- Does The Lichtenstein Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lichtenstein 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 Lichtenstein Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Ahmanson Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation.
- Where is The Lichtenstein Foundation Inc based?
- The Lichtenstein Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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