How much did The Marilyn Lichtman Foundation grant in FY2024?

Health$3.8MFood & Nutrition$1.7MHuman Services$1.3MAnimals$1.1MYouth Development$321kMembership Benefit$300kEducation$289kPublic Safety & Disaster$249kOther$0

02FY2024 · 161 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k68 grants · $211k
$10k–50k86 grants · $1.6M
$50k–250k7 grants · $386k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$45M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION	$70,000
ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN	$60,000
NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE	$56,300
SAINT CHARLES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$50,000
WARRIOR SALUTE VETERAN SERVICES INC	$50,000
LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION	$50,000
LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER	$50,000
LONG BEACH SOUP KITCHEN	$45,000
EAST END DISABILITY ASSOCIATES INC	$40,926
MERCY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION	$40,000
THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES INC	$35,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER ROCHESTER	$35,000
JERRY AMBROSE VETERANS COUNCIL	$35,000
ISLAND HARVEST LTD	$30,000
LONG BEACH SOUP KITCHEN	$30,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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

Which US states your grants reach

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

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$8.6M · 124 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

124 repeat relationships — 82 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 76 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

124

Total granted

$8.6M

$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%

+17%

Still filing today

89%

73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $751k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsFood & NutritionEnvironmentArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

ML
MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $305k · revenue +149%
DH
DOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION
4× · 2020–2024 · $280k · revenue +9%
LI
Long Island Cares Inc
5× · 2020–2024 · $270k · revenue +7%

Funded once

MT
MOUNT TUNNEL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2018 · $300k · revenue -40%
LA
LITTLE ANGELS SERVICE DOGS
one grant, 2020 · $60k
ST
Southampton Township Wildfowl Association Inc
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +15%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

The Way Back Inc

To provide rehabilitative housing services and support to help people with psychiatric disabilities reintegrate into the community.the agency provides rehabilitative housing services and staff support as a primary mechanism for achieving…

Human Services

St Catherine of Siena Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health

Chs Services Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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Mercy Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health

Good Shepherd Hospice

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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Connecticut Humane Society

The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.

Animals

Animal Care and Control of New York City Inc

Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.

Animals

Chs Physician Partners Pc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health

Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals

Carefirst Ny Inc

It is the mission of carefirst ny, inc. to affirm life through extraordinary, compassionate support and care to patients and families in chemung, steuben and schuyler counties.

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Search for Change Inc

Dedicated to improving the quality of life and increasing the self sufficiency of individuals with emotional, social and economic barriers. this is accomplished by providing direct support and assistance needed to enable individuals to…

Human Services

Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons Inc

THE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS ACTIVELY RESCUES CATS AND DOGS, PROVIDES QUALITY CARE AND OFFERS SANCTUARY UNTIL LOVING HOMES CAN BE FOUND. ARF's work with animals, within our community and throughout the organization is guided by…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is My Sisters Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is Journey to the Center of Hope. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.9%2/230

the rest of the field

10%

11,857/120,530

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

223 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 223 of the 279 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

219/223

Grantees still filing

144/223

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,713,121Human Services$2,257,854Health$2,253,130Food & Nutrition$854,232Animals$729,300Public Safety & Disaster$244,000Arts & Culture$219,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Mother Cabrini Health Foundation IncNY49.2× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Peter & Jeri Dejana Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Frank J Antun Foundation

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Marilyn Lichtman Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

75report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Marilyn Lichtman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Marilyn Lichtman Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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