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.

Where is The Lorber Foundation based?

The Lorber Foundation is based in MA.

The Lorber Foundation

The Lorber Foundation at a glance

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The Lorber Foundation

Q: 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.

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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$125k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.1MEnvironment$471kArts & Culture$345kReligion$209kFood & Nutrition$165kHuman Services$131kAnimals$58kRecreation & Sports$51kOther$0

02FY2025 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k52 grants · $62k
$10k–50k14 grants · $284k
$50k–250k2 grants · $175k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$9.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
The Wolf School	$125,000
UVM Foundation	$50,000
Hitchcock Center for the Environment	$30,000
Yiddish Book Center	$25,100
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc	$25,000
Eaglebrook School	$25,000
Amherst Survival Center	$25,000
Food Bank of Western Massachusetts	$25,000
Historic Deerfield	$21,500
Or HaLev Ctr for Jewish Spirituality	$21,200
Dakin Humane Society	$20,000
Firends of the Wildwood Cemetery	$17,000
Jewish Community of Amherst	$15,650
Jewish Famil Services of Western Massachusetts	$14,000
Institute for Jewish Spirituality	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 56% of The Lorber Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 41%.

The Lorber Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.4M · 80 repeat orgs$254k to everyone else

80 repeat relationships: 61 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.4M

$249k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

+29%

Still filing today

74%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureAnimalsRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

TW
THE WOLF SCHOOL INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $352k · revenue +60%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $325k · revenue +73%
AF
ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL
6× · 2020–2025 · $170k · revenue +46%

Funded once

FO
FRIENDS OF THE JONES LIBRARY
one grant, 2021 · $105k
FO
FRIENDS OF WILDWOOD CEMETERY INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +113%
BC
Bombyx Center for Arts and Equity
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -20%

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.

04Its field

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.

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment

Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.

Environment

The Adirondack Council Inc

The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…

Environment

Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc

Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…

Environment

Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment

Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment

Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education

Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve

The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.

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New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc

The mission of the new canaan land trust is to foster a connection between the new canaan community and its natural resources through the conservation and sustainable stewardship of our open space.

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Massachusetts Land Conservation Trust

Conservation and preservation of land.

Environment

President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Reservations; the most unlike its peers is Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 81 of the 130 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

81/81

Grantees still filing

54/81

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$925,260Other$806,165Environment$326,550Arts & Culture$309,800Human Services$120,300Religion$74,200Animals$51,900

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.

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.

Community Foundation of Western MassachusettsMA31.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Lorber Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lorber Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

15get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home