· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JULLIARD SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| FREDONIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| ASCAP FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
| MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF BUFFALO | $2,500 |
| BUFFALO MUSIC HALL OF FAME | $2,500 |
| BUFFALO STRING WORKS | $2,000 |
| DANCEABILITY INC USA | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| VH1 SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UAUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $77k · revenue +27%
- FCFREDONIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK INC7× · 2019–2025 · $61k · revenue +1%
- BSBUFFALO STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $54k · revenue +167%
Funded once
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.
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.
At MusicMi we set a mission for ourselves to provide aspiring young musicians from across the country with an opportunity to study with world-class artists and to provide our students with a music education of the highest artistic…
To provide access to high-quality music education for anyone who seeks it, regardless of economic status, ability level, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religious affiliation.
The mission of music conservatory of westchester is to provide the extraordinary benefits of music to all in our community. we believe in the inherent power of music to provide personal enrichment, creative expression, lifelong learning,…
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds University at Buffalo Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FREDONIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASCAP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Buffalo Music Hall of Fame ↗
- Who funds Community Music School ↗
- Who funds MUSIC IS ART ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO STRING WORKS INC ↗
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 for Greater Buffalo Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lucille & Jack Yellen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lucille & Jack Yellen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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