Funding search · EIN 273423670 · Pacific Palisades, CA

The Robert Lemelson Foundation

Name: The Robert Lemelson Foundation grants, 2022–2024
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License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

17
grants reported: $1.3M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $30,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

4 grants matching “anthropology” · $595,732

$100,000
UCLA Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Designated to thedepartment of anthropology: for the c-blaac 2025 program
$396,880
UCLA Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Ucla department of anthropology honors programmmac, amazigh, bec, long covid clinic
$63,714
American Anthropological Association · Arlington, VA · 2023
Spa / sva grants 2023-24 / lemelson fellows
$35,138
American Anthropological Association · Arlington, VA · 2022
Sva grants 2022-23 / lemelson fellows

Grant history

All 17 reported grants, largest first.

$396,880
UCLA Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Ucla department of anthropology honors programmmac, amazigh, bec, long covid clinic
$317,667
UCLA Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Anthro honors/hollan mmac working group endowment/study of black life and racial inequality
$180,000
American Friends of Hebrew University · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General funds
$100,000
UCLA Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Designated to thedepartment of anthropology: for the c-blaac 2025 program
$63,714
American Anthropological Association · Arlington, VA · 2023
Spa / sva grants 2023-24 / lemelson fellows
$53,543
Give 2 Asia · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Uaj/consortium 2023-24;putra bangsa/gamelan 2023 project
$49,721
Myriad USA · New York, NY · 2024
Putra bangsa sch/ninik supartini scholarship
$35,138
American Anthropological Association · Arlington, VA · 2022
Sva grants 2022-23 / lemelson fellows
$30,000
International Documentary Association · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Grant for brian maeda's film "i say,no no"
$17,000
Usc Pacific Asia Museum · Pasadena, CA · 2022
Programs for bali 2022
$10,000
I Am a Girl · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
General funds
$5,400
Beyond Baroque Foundation · Venice, CA · 2023
General funds
$2,700
Beyond Baroque Foundation · Venice, CA · 2024
General funds
$1,023
Brooklyn Workforce Innovations · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
F.lefrak annual celebration
$513
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge · Needham, MA · 2024
Pan mass challenge 2024
$513
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge · Needham, MA · 2023
Pan mass challenge 2023
$500
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge · Needham, MA · 2022
Pan mass challenge

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