About Marilyn Lichtman Foundation
To contribute funds to the community — assisting those in need and those rendering aid and services — including preserving wildlife and the planet, supporting American armed forces, veterans and their families, and supporting training and maintenance of service animals.
Focus Areas
Veterans & military familiesService animals (training & provision)Wildlife conservation & forestryAnimal welfare (dogs, cats, domesticated animals)Emergency housing & homeless sheltersFood banksFirst responders (police, fire, ambulance)Medical and human servicesCommunity services and related providers
Who They Fund
general public / broad communityunderserved or vulnerable populations (unspecified)
About Marilyn Lichtman Foundation
The Marilyn Lichtman Foundation’s recent giving shows a strong preference for unrestricted support to community nonprofits, especially in New York. Among its larger grants, the foundation awarded $100,000 to Feedmore Wny Inc in Buffalo and another $100,000 to The Interfaith Nutrition Network Inc in Hempstead, both marked general charity. It also made repeated seven-figure-scale support across familiar categories of need through grants such as $75,000 to Tunnel to Towers Foundation in Staten Island and $70,000 to Doylestown Health Foundation in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. The pattern is not limited to one field: the foundation funds food assistance, health, veteran services, animal welfare, and organizations serving vulnerable populations. Recent grants also include support for Long Island Cares Inc, Warrior Salute Veteran Services, St Mary’s Hospital for Children, and North Shore Animal League, which shows a mix of human services and animal-related philanthropy. The grant language is broad, and the recipients are mainly nonprofit organizations rather than individuals, consistent with a general charitable funding model.
What Marilyn Lichtman Foundation Funds
Food access is a visible part of the foundation’s grantmaking. It gave $100,000 to Feedmore Wny Inc in Buffalo for general charity, and $80,000 to Long Island Cares Inc in Hauppauge for the same purpose. Health-related giving appears as well: one $60,000 grant went to St Mary’s Hospital for Children in Bayside, and another $75,000 grant supported Lustgarten Foundation in Woodbury. The foundation also backs veterans and military families through grants such as $65,000 to Warrior Salute Veteran Services in Webster. Animal welfare and service-animal related work are part of its stated program areas, reflected in support for North Shore Animal League in Port Washington.
How Marilyn Lichtman Foundation Gives
Typical grants cluster around modest-to-mid five-figure levels, with a p25 of $5,000, a median of $15,945, and a p75 of $25,000. Recent grants show a mix of one-time gifts and repeat support: Long Island Cares Inc, Lustgarten Foundation, Warrior Salute Veteran Services, Doylestown Health Foundation, Cp Rochester, Island Harvest Ltd, St Mary’s Hospital for Children, and Feedmore Wny Inc each appear more than once across the recent list. The foundation gives through named general grant programs, and both active programs accept unsolicited requests from qualifying nonprofits. It does not fund individuals and does not make program-related investments.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$2.2M
Total Assets
$45.4M
Total Revenue
$2.2M
Total Expenses
$2.9M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $5K and $25K, with a median of $16K.
25th Percentile
$5K
Median
$16K
75th Percentile
$25K
Geographic Reach
Regional20 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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