· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $174k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $24,000 |
| LEGAL ACTION CENTER | $20,000 |
| YALE LAW SCHOOL | $18,000 |
| BARNARD COLLEGE SUMMER FELLOWSHIPS | $18,000 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| THE JEWISH MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| SPELMAN COLLEGE | $12,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $12,000 |
| SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS | $10,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD HEBREW CENTER | $7,500 |
| SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| COUDERT INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN | $5,000 |
| CULTURAL COUNCIL OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
43 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 2 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
BARNARD COLLEGE4× · 2019–2022 · $118k · revenue +50%- SCSpelman College6× · 2019–2025 · $105k · revenue +27%
The Trustees of Princeton University5× · 2019–2025 · $104k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- TPTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +70%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ART BUCHWALD COLLECT IONone grant, 2022 · $10k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -12%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
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).
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
How this is measured
76 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 76 of the 94 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LEGAL ACTION CENTER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Spelman College ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds School of the Arts Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ART RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds FILM FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION OF WOMEN ↗
- Who funds CIRCUIT ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach Civic Association Inc ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds ARTSWESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MATERIALS FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARMORY ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Liman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Liman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc: 34% of income from government
- The Lord's Place Inc: 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- American Antiquarian Society: 7% of income from government
- Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: 6% of income from government
- Hospice of Martha's Vineyard Inc Dba Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha's: 5% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation: 2% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc: 2% of income from government
- Neads Inc: 1% of income from government
- Circuit Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Armory Art Center Inc: 0% of income from government
- Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc: 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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