Alumni and Friends of the London School of Economics
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About Alumni and Friends of the London School of Economics
This donor is alumni-directed and gives in a highly targeted way to support their alma mater, directing a single large gift to create a permanently endowed scholarship for a one-year master's student at the London School of Economics. The foundation appears to prioritize sustaining access to graduate study at LSE rather than broad programmatic grants or diversified philanthropy. The giving is international in effect — a U.S.-based alumni group funding higher education in the U.K.
Focus Areas
Endowed scholarships for one-year master's students at the London School of EconomicsAlumni-driven philanthropy to support alma mater (LSE)U.S.-based funding for U.K. higher education access
Who They Fund
London School of Economics (LSE) studentsone-year master's degree studentsgraduate-level scholars
Giving Approach
Highly concentrated — a single, large one-time endowment-style grant to a core/alma mater beneficiary rather than multiple or small grants.
Funding Style
About Alumni and Friends of the London School of Economics
Alumni and Friends of the London School of Economics directed a single $497,216 grant in 2023 to Lse Foundation in New York to establish a permanently endowed scholarship managed by LSE for a student in a one-year master’s degree program. That grant makes the funder’s purpose clear: support graduate access at the London School of Economics through a scholarship structure designed to last. The foundation’s giving is tightly focused rather than dispersed across many causes, with one recent award tied to an institutional scholarship at LSE. Its work centers on alumni-driven philanthropy for the school, channeling resources into graduate study support instead of broad programmatic grantmaking. The recent grant also shows that the foundation’s philanthropy operates through a restricted, institution-specific vehicle, with the scholarship held and managed by LSE for its own students. For a researcher, the key takeaway is that this is an alumni group using charitable assets to sustain one precise form of educational aid: tuition and living-cost support for one-year master’s students at LSE.
What Alumni and Friends of the London School of Economics Funds
The foundation’s recent giving points to a narrow education agenda built around graduate study. In one grant, it provided $497,216 to Lse Foundation in New York to establish a permanently endowed scholarship for a student studying on a one-year master’s degree program at LSE. That places scholarship funding at the center of its work. The active grant program, AFLSE Scholarship, is explicitly a scholarship program supported by Alumni and Friends of the London School of Economics in the United States. The data also ties its philanthropy to alumni support for its alma mater, with the scholarship managed by LSE itself. The pattern is institutional rather than open-ended: support for one school, one degree format, and one defined beneficiary group.
How Alumni and Friends of the London School of Economics Gives
The only grant on file is $497,216, so the p25, median, and p75 are all the same amount. That indicates a single-grant profile rather than a spread of award sizes. The foundation is a public charity, not a vehicle that funds individuals directly, and it does not make program-related investments. Its active scholarship program does not accept unsolicited applications. The available grant record shows a one-time large award tied to an endowment, which suggests restricted, long-horizon support rather than recurring operating grants.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$497K
Total Assets
$236K
Total Revenue
$13K
Total Expenses
$17K
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $497K and $497K, with a median of $497K.
25th Percentile
$497K
Median
$497K
75th Percentile
$497K
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
About 0% of grants go to recipients in NY.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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