Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Lorber 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.
- $522k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 68
- Grants FY2025
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 63 to 68
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The Lorber Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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 | 68 | $522k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 65 | $469k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 66 | $389k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $453k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 66 | $466k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 68 | $315k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Wolf School Inc | $352,000 | 6 | 2% |
| University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Foundation Inc | $325,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Allen-Chase Foundation Dba Eaglebrook School | $170,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc | $160,000 | 6 | 0% |
| National Yiddish Book Center Inc | $151,100 | 6 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc | $138,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hitchcock Center for the Environment Inc | $129,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Survival Centers Inc | $95,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Franklin Land Trust Inc | $91,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Jewish Community of Amherst Inc | $75,170 | 6 | n/a |
Show all 93 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($277k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lorber 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: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · The Nature Conservancy · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Dechambeau Creek Foundation · Ralph & Clara Shuster Foundation
How this is measured
About The Lorber Foundation
- How much does The Lorber Foundation give?
- The Lorber Foundation reported 68 grants totaling $521,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 63 and 68 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Lorber Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Environment (18%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are The Lorber Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Wolf School Inc ($352k), University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Foundation Inc ($325k), Allen-Chase Foundation Dba Eaglebrook School ($170k).
- Does The Lorber Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lorber 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 Lorber Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, The Beveridge Family Foundation, Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Lorber Foundation based?
- The Lorber Foundation is based in MA.
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