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Robert Lehman Foundation

Name: Robert Lehman Foundation grants, 2021–2023
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.

150
grants reported: $5.7M
total given: 2021–2023
filing years: $10,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2023. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

educational

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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.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Metropolitan Museum of Art3 grants · $3.3M
Portland Art Museum2 grants · $170,000
Brooks School2 grants · $100,000
Parrish Art Museum2 grants · $64,000
Museum of Modern Art3 grants · $56,000
The Morgan Library & Museum1 grant · $50,000
The Studio Museum in Harlem2 grants · $50,000
The Cleveland Museum of Art1 grant · $50,000
Morgan Library & Museum1 grant · $50,000
King Baudouin Foundation1 grant · $50,000

Giving over time

$2.0M

2021

$1.9M

2022

$1.8M

2023

Grant history

The 100 largest of 150 grants.

$1.1M
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$1.1M
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$1.0M
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2023
General educational and charitable purposes
$100,000
Portland Art Museum · Portland, OR · 2023
General educational and charitable purposes
$70,000
Portland Art Museum · Portland, OR · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$50,000
Brooks School · North Andover, MA · 2023
General educational and charitable purposes
$50,000
The Morgan Library & Museum · New York, NY · 2023
General educational and charitable purposes
$50,000
Brooks School · North Andover, MA · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$50,000
King Baudouin Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$50,000
Morgan Library & Museum · New York, NY · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$50,000
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Cleveland, OH · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$35,000
National Gallery of Art · Washington, DC · 2023
General educational and charitable purposes
$33,000
The Brooklyn Museum · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
General educational and charitable purposes
$33,000
Parrish Art Museum · Water Mill, NY · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$31,000
Parrish Art Museum · Water Mill, NY · 2023
General educational and charitable purposes
$31,000
The Drawing Center · New York, NY · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$30,000
New York Studio School of Drawing Painting & Sculpture · New York, NY · 2023
General educational and charitable purposes
$30,000
Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Science Dba · Brooklyn, NY · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$30,000
Sterling & Francine Clark Institute · Williamstown, MA · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$27,500
Nxthvn · New Haven, CT · 2023
General educational and charitable purposes
$25,000
Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute · Williamstown, MA · 2023
General educational and charitable purposes
$25,000
The Barnes Foundation · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
General educational and charitable purposes
$25,000
The Jewish Museum · New York, NY · 2023
General educational and charitable purposes
$25,000
Americans for Oxford · New York, NY · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$25,000
Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$25,000
Museum of Modern Art · New York, NY · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$25,000
Solomon R Guggenheim Museum and Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$25,000
The Frick Collection · New York, NY · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$25,000
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art · Sarasota, FL · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$25,000
The Phillips Collection · Washington, DC · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$25,000
The Studio Museum in Harlem · New York, NY · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$25,000
Art 21 · New York, NY · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$25,000
Isabella Stewart Gardner · Boston, MA · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$25,000
Museum of Modern Art · New York, NY · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$25,000
Philadelphia Museum of Art · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$25,000
Seattle Art Museum · Seattle, WA · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$25,000
Storm King Art Center · New Windsor, NY · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$25,000
The Studio Museum in Harlem · New York, NY · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$25,000
Willaim a Farnsworth Library & Art Museum · Rockland, ME · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$25,000
Woodmere Art Museum · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$23,000
New York Studio School · New York, NY · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$20,000
Detroit Institue of Arts · Detroit, MI · 2023
General educational and charitable purposes
$20,000
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy · Buffalo, NY · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$20,000
Checkerboard Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$20,000
New York Botanical Garden · Bronx, NY · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$20,000
New York School Studio · New York, NY · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$20,000
American Folk Art Museum · New York, NY · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$20,000
Sun Valley Center for the Arts · Ketchum, ID · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$20,000
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum · Ridgefield, CT · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$20,000
The Studio in a School Association · New York, NY · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$18,300
Smithsonian Institution · New York, NY · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$15,000
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts · Little Rock, AR · 2023
General educational and charitable purposes
$15,000
Bronx Museum of the Arts · Bronx, NY · 2023
General educational and charitable purposes
$15,000
Publicolor · New York, NY · 2023
General educational and charitable purposes
$15,000
The Hyde Collection Trust · Glens Falls, NY · 2023
General educational and charitable purposes
$15,000
Transformer · Washington, DC · 2023
General educational and charitable purposes
$15,000
Bric Arts Media Bklyn · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$15,000
Bronx Museum of the Arts · Bronx, NY · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$15,000
Hirshhorn Museum · Washington, DC · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$15,000
Madison Square Park Conservancy · New York, NY · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$15,000
New Museum of Contemporary Art · New York, NY · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$15,000
Npr · Washington, DC · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$15,000
Print Center New York · New York, NY · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$15,000
The Hyde Collection Trust · Glens Falls, NY · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$15,000
Transformer · Washington, DC · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$15,000
Urbanglass · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$15,000
Baltimore Museum of Art · Baltimore, MD · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$15,000
Children'S Museum of the Arts · New York, NY · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$15,000
Institute of Contemporary Art · Boston, MA · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$15,000
Npr · Washington, DC · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$15,000
The Drawing Center · New York, NY · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$15,000
The Heard Museum · Phoenix, AZ · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$15,000
University of Rochester · Rochester, NY · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$15,000
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts · Richmond, VA · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$10,000
Alliance for Young Artists & Writers · New York, NY · 2023
General educational and charitable purposes
$10,000
Baltimore Museum of Art · Baltimore, MD · 2023
General educational and charitable purposes
$10,000
Bric Arts Media Bklyn · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
General educational and charitable purposes
$10,000
Fleisher Art Memorial · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
General educational and charitable purposes
$10,000
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council · New York, NY · 2023
General educational and charitable purposes
$10,000
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art · Madison, WI · 2023
General educational and charitable purposes
$10,000
Mansfield Art Center · Mansfield, OH · 2023
General educational and charitable purposes
$10,000
Montclair Art Museum · Montclair, NJ · 2023
General educational and charitable purposes
$10,000
Pioneer Works Art Foundation · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
General educational and charitable purposes
$10,000
American Folk Art Museum · New York, NY · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$10,000
Art Omi · Ghent, NY · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$10,000
Black Mountain College Museum Arts Center · Asheville, NC · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$10,000
Contemporary Arts Center · Bedminster, NJ · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$10,000
Dieu Donne Paper Mill · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$10,000
Eastern Oregon Regional Arts Council · La Grande, OR · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$10,000
New Britain Museum of American Art · New Britain, CT · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$10,000
Samuel S Fleisher Art Memorial · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$10,000
Smack Melon Studios · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$10,000
The Ghetto Film School · Bronx, NY · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$10,000
Young New Yorkers · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
General educational and charitable purposes
$10,000
American Federation of Arts · New York, NY · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$10,000
Boise Art Museum · Boise, ID · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$10,000
Fleisher Museum · Scottsdale, AZ · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$10,000
Ghetto Film School · Bronx, NY · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$10,000
Hammer Museum · Los Angeles, CA · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes
$10,000
Mass Moca Foundation · North Adams, MA · 2021
General educational and charitable purposes

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