· Private foundation
The Thelma and Melvin Lenkin Family Charitable 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| THE KENNEDY CENTER (NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA) | $75,000 |
| JARC FLORIDA | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES | $25,000 |
| THE KENNEDY CENTER | $25,000 |
| DC JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART | $20,000 |
| B'NAI ISRAEL CONGREGATION AND TALMUD TORAH | $20,000 |
| SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| PHILLIPS COLLECTION | $10,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| COLBY MUSEUM OF ART | $1,000 |
| JILL'S HOUSE | $1,000 |
| WETA | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JFJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS3× · 2020–2022 · $252k · revenue +160%
- JFJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue +103%
- NGNational Gallery of Art5× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- ICISRAEL CRISIS RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2023 · $75k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $9k
- JOJCC OF GREATER WASHINGTONone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 43 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 JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ASSOCIATION FOR RESIDENTIAL CARE INC ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH ROBERT SHAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION 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: American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Thelma and Melvin Lenkin Family Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Thelma and Melvin Lenkin Family Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Children's Inn at Nih Inc: 10% of income from government
- Jewish Association for Residential Care Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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