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The Lucille & Jack Yellen 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.

$60k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
8%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 14
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$993k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations The Lucille & Jack Yellen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureOther
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
FY2025still arriving13$60k0%
FY202413$54k8%
FY202313$58k0%
FY202213$58k0%
FY202114$49k7%
FY202013$53k8%
FY201913$53k38%
FY201813$59k0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$298kArts & Culture$201k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University at Buffalo Foundation Inc$76,50090%
Fredonia College Foundation of the State University of New York Inc$61,00070%
Buffalo State College Foundation Inc$53,50070%
Ascap Foundation$43,00090%
Buffalo Music Hall of Fame$23,50099%
Community Music School$22,50091%
Music Is Art$10,00022%
Manhattan School of Music$10,00020%
Save the Music Foundation$8,50070%
Buffalo String Works Inc$8,00050%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($182k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lucille & Jack Yellen Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $76,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFredonia College Foundation of the State University of New York Inc: $61,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBuffalo State College Foundation Inc: $53,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAscap Foundation: $43,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetBuffalo Music Hall of Fame: $23,500 over 9y, 8.8% of budgetCommunity Music School: $22,500 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetMusic Is Art: $10,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetManhattan School of Music: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave the Music Foundation: $8,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBuffalo String Works Inc: $8,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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 …American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About The Lucille & Jack Yellen Foundation

How much does The Lucille & Jack Yellen Foundation give?
The Lucille & Jack Yellen Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $60,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Lucille & Jack Yellen Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (60%), Arts & Culture (40%).
Who are The Lucille & Jack Yellen Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University at Buffalo Foundation Inc ($77k), Fredonia College Foundation of the State University of New York Inc ($61k), Buffalo State College Foundation Inc ($54k).
Does The Lucille & Jack Yellen Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Lucille & Jack Yellen 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 Lucille & Jack Yellen Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Lucille & Jack Yellen Foundation based?
The Lucille & Jack Yellen Foundation 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 21 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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