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The Louis B Mayer Foundation

Name: The Louis B Mayer Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
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.

63
grants reported: $2.3M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $35,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. 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

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Top recipients

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George Eastman Museum17 grants · $528,600
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute7 grants · $275,000
Miami City Ballet3 grants · $186,400
Uc Berkeley Art Museumpacific Film6 grants · $170,000
UCLA Film and Television Archive4 grants · $150,000
Md Anderson Cancer Center3 grants · $141,000
Museum of Modern Art2 grants · $140,000
Cincinnati Children'S Hospital4 grants · $120,000
Arts Resources in Collaboration5 grants · $90,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering2 grants · $83,000

Giving over time

$600,000

2022

$575,000

2023

$530,000

2024

$583,000

2025

Grant history

All 63 reported grants, largest first.

$101,000
George Eastman Museum · Rochester, NY · 2024
Digitization of the personal papers of independent filmmaker Leo Hurwitz.
$100,000
Miami City Ballet · Miami Beach, FL · 2022
For general operating support.
$85,000
George Eastman Museum · Rochester, NY · 2025
Roof replacement for LBM Conservation Center.
$70,000
Museum of Modern Art · New York, NY · 2023
To preserve the film heritage of William S. Hart.
$70,000
Museum of Modern Art · New York, NY · 2022
To preserve the film heritage of William S. Hart.
$64,500
George Eastman Museum · Rochester, NY · 2024
Upgrade to LBM Conservation Center back-up generator and installation.
$57,000
American Cinematheque · Los Angeles, CA · 2025
For upgraded projection equipment.
$55,000
UCLA Film and Television Archive · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
TBD - Preservation of The Forbidden Valley.
$51,000
Md Anderson Cancer Center · Houston, TX · 2025
Dr. Ray - Targeting Alzheimer's Disease with Immunotherapy.
$50,000
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2025
Small vessel disease in the heart and brain; identifying biomarkers for dementia treatment targets.
$50,000
George Eastman Museum · Rochester, NY · 2025
Film Atlas Project with Seaver Center.
$50,000
Northeast Historic Film · Bucksport, ME · 2025
Unrestricted, one-time emergency funding.
$50,000
Md Anderson Cancer Center · Houston, TX · 2024
Dr. Ray - Targeting Alzheimer's Disease with Immuno-therapy.
$50,000
Mt Sinai Medical Center · New York, NY · 2024
Enhancing Anti-tumor immune Response and Flash Radiation in Pediatric Diffuse Midline Glioma.
$50,000
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · Brookline, MA · 2023
Dr. Ahn / Dr. Wu Neoantigen Vaccine for CLL.
$50,000
Miami City Ballet · Miami Beach, FL · 2023
For general operating support in 2023.
$50,000
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · Brookline, MA · 2022
Dr. Rizwan Romee - CAR Therapies for HER2 Positive Breast Cancer.
$50,000
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · Brookline, MA · 2022
Dr. Pasi Janne - Properties of Dormant Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.
$48,500
Vanguard Charitable · Warwick, RI · 2024
The Louis B. Mayer Donor Advised Fund.
$48,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering · New York, NY · 2023
Dr. Tammela / Dissection of Cancer Cell States in Solid Tumors (Intra-Tumoral Heterogeneity).
$47,500
Association of Moving Image Archivi · Los Angeles, CA · 2025
For film restoration support including fellowships, "The Moving Image" journal, equipment kits for loan, and training via webinars and a conversation series.
$45,000
Uc Berkeley Art Museumpacific Film · Berkeley, CA · 2025
Preservation of 5 short films by Jordon Belson.
$45,000
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · Brookline, MA · 2024
Dr. Reinherz - Harnessing T Cells for Immune-oncology.
$45,000
UCLA Film and Television Archive · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Restoration of The Microscope Mystery.
$40,000
Md Anderson Cancer Center · Houston, TX · 2025
Dr. Gordon - Targeting metabolic adaptations to boost immunotherapy effectiveness in Osteosarcoma.
$40,000
George Eastman Museum · Rochester, NY · 2024
Film Atlas Project with Seaver Center.
$40,000
George Eastman Museum · Rochester, NY · 2022
To preserve the film heritage of William S. Hart.
$40,000
The La County Museum of Natural His · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
For preserving collection of film fragments.
$39,000
Film Preservation Society · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Funding the preparation and scanning of eight titles as part of The Biograph Project.
$36,600
George Eastman Museum · Rochester, NY · 2023
Film Atlas Project with Seaver Center.
$36,400
Miami City Ballet · Miami Beach, FL · 2023
Second half of annual gift.
$35,000
Cincinnati Children'S Hospital · Cincinnati, OH · 2023
Dr. Zheng / Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
$35,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering · New York, NY · 2022
Dr. Moss' Liquid Biopsies for Brain Metastasis research.
$30,000
Cincinnati Children'S Hospital · Cincinnati, OH · 2025
Dr. Zheng / Understanding the mechanism of how normal blood cells transition to MDS and Leukemia cells for developing novel therapeutics.
$30,000
Cincinnati Children'S Hospital · Cincinnati, OH · 2023
Dr. Zheng / Improving Cancer Immunotherapy.
$30,000
George Eastman Museum · Rochester, NY · 2023
William S. Hart films supplemental grant and extension to 12/31/2025.
$30,000
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · Brookline, MA · 2022
Dr. Megan Insco - How RNA Affects Metastatic Melanoma.
$30,000
George Eastman Museum · Rochester, NY · 2022
Acquisition of a Sprocketless Drive.
$25,000
Uc Berkeley Art Museumpacific Film · Berkeley, CA · 2025
CineFiles Film Document Imaging Project.
$25,000
Arts Resources in Collaboration · New York, NY · 2024
To support the Eye on Dance Archive Legacy Project
$25,000
Uc Berkeley Art Museumpacific Film · Berkeley, CA · 2024
For the CineFiles Film Document Imaging Project.
$25,000
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · Brookline, MA · 2023
Dr. Perez's Neuroendocrine Tumor (NET)Clinical Trial Correlative Studies.
$25,000
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · Brookline, MA · 2023
Dr. Waks/HER2+ Breast CAncer (matched internally by (DFCI).
$25,000
Uc Berkeley Art Museumpacific Film · Berkeley, CA · 2023
CineFiles Film Document Imaging Project.
$25,000
UCLA Film and Television Archive · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Preservation of The Confession (1920).
$25,000
UCLA Film and Television Archive · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
For 5 shorts: Doctor Cupid (1911), Cursed by His Beauty (1914), Nearly a Widow (1914), Twixt Love and the Iceman (1916) and The Hicksville Terrors (1921).
$25,000
Cincinnati Children'S Hospital · Cincinnati, OH · 2022
Dr. Marc Rothenberg's meta-computer analysis of gastrointestinal biopsies.
$25,000
Uc Berkeley Art Museumpacific Film · Berkeley, CA · 2022
For the film programing database.
$25,000
Uc Berkeley Art Museumpacific Film · Berkeley, CA · 2022
For the CineFiles Film Document Imaging Project.
$20,000
Arts Resources in Collaboration · New York, NY · 2025
To support the Eye on Dance Archive Legacy Project
$20,000
Arts Resources in Collaboration · New York, NY · 2023
To support the Eye on Dance Archive Legacy Project
$20,000
Arts Resources in Collaboration · New York, NY · 2022
To support the Eye on Dance Archive Legacy Project
$11,000
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2025
The Robert Gottlieb Memorial Scholarship - Columbia Publishing Course.
$11,000
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024
Columbia Publishing Course 5-year Scholarship.
$10,000
George Eastman Museum · Rochester, NY · 2025
Louis B. Mayer Foundation Fellowship Program.
$10,000
George Eastman Museum · Rochester, NY · 2024
Louis B. Mayer Foundation Fellowship Program.
$9,000
George Eastman Museum · Rochester, NY · 2022
Film Atlas Project with Seaver Center.
$6,000
George Eastman Museum · Rochester, NY · 2022
Selznick School's 2022-2023 academic year.
$5,000
Arts Resources in Collaboration · New York, NY · 2025
Further support of the Eye on Dance Archive Legacy Project.
$5,000
George Eastman Museum · Rochester, NY · 2024
Selznick School's 2024-2025 academic year.
$5,000
George Eastman Museum · Rochester, NY · 2023
Selznick School's 2023-2024 academic year.
$4,000
George Eastman Museum · Rochester, NY · 2025
Selznick School's 2025-2026 academic year.
$2,500
George Eastman Museum · Rochester, NY · 2025
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