Nevada · Private foundation
The Lionel 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.
- $995k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $410,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 25
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $489k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations The Lionel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k 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 | 32 | $840k | 34% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $411k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $218k | 52% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $96k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $138k | 55% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $53k | 89% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $10k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $43k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chabad of Southern Nevada Inc | $126,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Congregation Ner Tamid | $114,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Solid Rock Foundation Inc | $110,000 | 6 | 1% |
| University of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation | $105,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St John's University New York | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Maui Arts & Cultural Center | $39,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Good Plus Foundation Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The National Judicial College | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $29,280 | 3 | 0% |
| The Navigators | $28,000 | 5 | n/a |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($856k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lionel 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: Mgm Resorts Foundation · Alan and Christy Molasky Charitable Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Marshall Family Philanthropic Fund · Susan G Fine Family Foundation · Canarelli Family Foundation · Engelstad Family Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · The Frieda & Leon Steinberg Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Lionel Foundation
- How much does The Lionel Foundation give?
- The Lionel Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $994,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Lionel Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (35%), Health (22%), Religion (13%).
- Who are The Lionel Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chabad of Southern Nevada Inc ($126k), Congregation Ner Tamid ($114k), Solid Rock Foundation Inc ($110k).
- Does The Lionel Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lionel 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 Lionel Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mgm Resorts Foundation, Alan and Christy Molasky Charitable Foundation, NV Energy Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Lionel Foundation based?
- The Lionel Foundation is based in NV.
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