Florida · Private foundation
The Liman 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.
- $232k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 41
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations The Liman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 | 25 | $175k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $118k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $185k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $305k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $604k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $639k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $693k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal Action Center of the City of New York Inc | $145,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Barnard College | $117,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Spelman College | $105,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $104,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Society of the Four Arts Inc | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Park Avenue Synagogue Inc | $52,500 | 3 | n/a |
| School of the Arts Foundation Inc | $49,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc | $36,000 | 5 | 0% |
| South Florida Pbs Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Playwrights Horizons Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 76 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Liman Foundation 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: Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Mestal Foundation · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · If Hummingbird Foundation Inc · Tower Family Fund Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The William a Meyer Foundation · Marina P and Stephen E Kaufman Foundation · Swartz Foundation Trust
How this is measured
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About The Liman Foundation
- How much does The Liman Foundation give?
- The Liman Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $232,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 41 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Liman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Public Benefit (31%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are The Liman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Legal Action Center of the City of New York Inc ($145k), Barnard College ($118k), Spelman College ($105k).
- Does The Liman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Liman Foundation 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 Liman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc, The New York Community Trust, Mestal Foundation.
- Where is The Liman Foundation based?
- The Liman Foundation is based in FL.
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