New York · Private foundation
The Lucille Lortel 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.
- $4.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 85
- Grants FY2025
- 86
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 1%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,488,320
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 86
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 1% of the organizations The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 85 | $4.0M | 2% |
| FY2024 | 86 | $2.8M | 1% |
| FY2023 | 86 | $9.3M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 84 | $2.1M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 83 | $1.6M | 83% |
| FY2017 | 18 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lucille Lortel Theatre Foundation Inc | $17,844,929 | 6 | 92% |
| Westport Country Playhouse Inc | $195,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/A Long Wharf Theatre | $95,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Hartford Stage Company Inc | $90,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Graduate Center Foundation Inc | $78,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Bard College | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| New York Stage and Film Inc | $65,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Vera Institute of Justice Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The New Group Inc | $46,147 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 89 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($716k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 89 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc
- How much does The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc give?
- The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc reported 85 grants totaling $4,024,320 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 86 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (98%), Education (1%), Crime & Legal (0%).
- Who are The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lucille Lortel Theatre Foundation Inc ($18M), Westport Country Playhouse Inc ($195k), The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/A Long Wharf Theatre ($95k).
- Does The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 1% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lucille Lortel 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc, The Shubert Foundation Inc, Axe-Houghton Foundation.
- Where is The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc based?
- The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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