FundersNew Jersey

Eileen & Peter Lehrer Family Foundation

Iselin, NJ · EIN 52-2205396. Reported 66 grants totalling $1,149,355 to 40 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$10,000median grant
$1,149,355granted, 2021-2024
40organizations funded
40%of grantees funded again the next year
$661,784assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Eileen & Peter Lehrer Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $100,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
1 grant
$1,000 - $5,000
12 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
10 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
26 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
9 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
7 grants
$100,000 and Up
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Mount Sinai Hospital Pediatric Ibd CenterNew York, NY$150,000222022
Riverdale Country SchoolBronx, NY$130,255222024
National September 11 Memorial & MuseumNew York, NY$117,500332023
White Plains HospitalWhite Plains, NY$85,000222023
New York City BalletNew York, NY$80,000442024
Anti Defamation LeagueNew York, NY$76,800332024
Mount Sinai Health SystemNew York, NY$50,000112023
The Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island FoundationNew York, NY$47,500442024
The 92ND Street YNew York, NY$41,800442024
Crohn's & Colitis FoundationNew York, NY$40,000332023
Uja FederationNew York, NY$35,000222023
Friends of the IdfNew York, NY$30,000222023
New York Presbyterian Office of DevelopmentNew York, NY$30,000222022
Westchester Jewish CenterMamaroneck, NY$26,600222022
Magen David AdomNew York, NY$25,000112023
Share Our StrengthWashington, DC$25,000332023
White Plains Hospital FoundationWhite Plains, NY$25,000112021
Planned Parenthood Federation of AmericaNew York, NY$20,000222022
Miscellaneous Contributions Under 5000Edison, NJ$12,500112021
North Carolina State Engineering Foundation IncRaleigh, NC$12,500112022
Everytown for Gun Safety Support FundNew York, NY$10,000112022
HiasSilver Spring, MD$10,000112022
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterNew York, NY$10,000112021
Nc State Engineering Foundation IncRaleigh, NC$7,500112024
Friends of AcadiaBar Harbor, ME$5,000112022
Friends of KarenNew York, NY$5,000112021
Hillel at DartmouthHanover, NH$5,000112023
Hillel InternationalWashington, DC$5,000112021
MS206 Ann Goss Mersereau SchoolBronx, NY$5,000112022
The Elie Wiesel FoundationNew York, NY$5,000112024
Phelps HospitalSleepy Hollow, NY$3,500112022
Harlem School of ArtsNew York, NY$2,500112023
SteerPort Chester, NY$2,500112023
Stone Barns CenterPocantico Hills, NY$2,500112022
World Jewish CongressNew York, NY$2,500112023
Paps CorpsDeerfield Beach, FL$2,300222024
Multiple Myeloma Research FoundationNorwalk, CT$1,800112023
Museum at Eldridge StreetNew York, NY$1,800112024
Larchmont Mamaroneck Hunger TaskLarchmont, NY$1,000112022
Target Als FoundationNew York, NY$1,000112023

16 of 40 (40%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 40%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 45 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
9 grants
Health Care
6 grants
Education
5 grants
International Affairs
4 grants
Religion
4 grants
Diseases & Disorders
4 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
3 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202117$246,800$11,800
202220$343,600$10,000
202320$429,405$10,000
20249$129,550$7,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 92% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New York
$1.1M
District of Columbia
$30K
North Carolina
$20K
New Jersey
$12K
Maryland
$10K
New Hampshire
$5K
Maine
$5K
Florida
$2K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Eileen & Peter Lehrer Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Forvis Mazars Llp 200 South Wood a, Iselin, NJ, 08830. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 52-2205396 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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