Skip to content

New York · Private foundation

The Litwin 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.

$4.5M
Granted FY2023
125
Itemized grants FY2023
113
Organizations funded FY2023
31%
First-time grantees FY2023
Read the full brief
Itemized, FY2023
$2.7M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$375,000
Organizations funded a year
101 to 125
FY2021 to FY2023
Total assets, FY2023
$83M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations The Litwin Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $503k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2023113$2.7M31%
FY2022125$2.4M33%
FY2021101$1.9Mn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$19MHealth$2.3MCivil Rights$622kArts & Culture$578kPhilanthropy$201kHousing & Shelter$100kEnvironment$85kHuman Services$51kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2023.

New York Crohn's Foundation$375,000
New York Crohn's Foundation$375,000
New York Crohn's Foundation$375,000
New York Crohn's Foundation$375,000
Amer. Friends of Magen David Ad...$200,000
Anti Defamation League$200,000
Northwell Health Foundation$100,000
Metropolitan Opera$78,227
National Jewish Health$50,000
Lincoln Center for the Performing ...$50,000
Jewish Federation of S. Palm Bea...$40,000
Metropolitan Museum of Art$35,000
Hamptons Invitational Charitable F...$28,000
American Friends of Rabin Medica...$25,000
Kristi House$25,000

Compare The Litwin Foundation Inc with peer funders

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Litwin Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Litwin Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Litwin Foundation Inc

How much does The Litwin Foundation Inc give?
The Litwin Foundation Inc reported 125 itemized grants totaling $2,666,577, out of $4,472,377 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 101 and 125 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does The Litwin Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Religion (65%), Health (8%), Civil Rights (2%).
Does The Litwin Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Litwin 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.
Where is The Litwin Foundation Inc based?
The Litwin Foundation Inc is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 177 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $4.5M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Litwin’s filings →

More from the funding graph