The Lionel Foundation
EIN 88-0460290 · files IRS 990-PF
Where it gives
By cause and by place, from its own returns.
By cause
The cause each recipient registered with the IRS
Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.
By place
Dollars received, by the recipient's state
half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%
Grants abroad and place not on file: 88 grants · $1.7m
Who it funds most
8 of its 19 grantees were funded in more than one year.
The Lionel Foundation's own IRS 990-PF returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 19 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.
Its board and officers
From its latest return.
Form 990PF Part VIII, tax year 2023, filing 202412999349100321
Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.
Its money
What it gave, held and paid, by year.
Giving by year
A year with no bar has no grants on file yet: its returns may not be loaded. It is not a year without giving.
Its returns8 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | IRS 990-PF | 202641739349100419 | IRS batch file |
| 2024 | IRS 990-PF | 202543219349102774 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS 990-PF | 202412999349100321 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS 990-PF | 202332419349100413 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS 990-PF | 202221369349105717 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS 990-PF | 202112039349100856 | IRS batch file |
| 2019 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202001749349100045 | IRS batch file |
| 2018 | IRS 990-PF | 201911349349101666 | IRS batch file |
An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.
The record as filedEvery table this page has always shown, in full.open
The Lionel Foundation made 125 grants across 2018–2025, totalling $2.7m as filed.
- Grants
- 125
- Total, as filed
- $2.7m
- Years
- 2018–2025
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA | 5 | $662.5k |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC | 4 | $470.0k |
| JEWISH NEVADA | 5 | $250.0k |
| ADL | 5 | $125.0k |
| CHABAD OF SOUTHERN NEVADA | 5 | $116.0k |
| CONGREGATION NER TAMID | 5 | $114.0k |
| UNLV FOUNDATION | 2 | $105.0k |
| ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY | 2 | $100.0k |
| SOLID ROCK FOUNDATION | 5 | $90.0k |
| SOLDIERS FOR THE SECOND COMING | 5 | $60.0k |
| ISRAELI AMERICAN COUNCIL | 4 | $50.0k |
| NASHVILLE LIFE | 3 | $40.0k |
| MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER | 1 | $39.0k |
| GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION | 3 | $35.0k |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | 3 | $29.3k |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | $10.0k |
| 2020 | 12 | $255.5k |
| 2021 | 13 | $148.0k |
| 2022 | 12 | $282.1k |
| 2023 | 24 | $410.8k |
| 2024 | 28 | $605.8k |
| 2025 | 35 | $994.5k |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-880460290. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.
What this page does not know
- Wrong if: a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures.
- What they say they exist to do
- What each grant was for
- What they fund, by theme
- Balance sheet and financials
- Who runs it
- Whether they accept proposals
- Their own record on the register
- No website on file
- Leadership not yet identified