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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 75-3126107

The Loreen Arbus Foundation

A private foundation in Beverly Hills, CA. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 12 grants and $550,675 paid in grants.

Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Preselected only

The return checks the box saying the foundation gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Assets and giving by year

8 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.
  • Tax year 2025

    $550,675

    Grants listed
    12
    Assets, end of year
    $533,697
  • Tax year 2024

    $603,825

    Grants listed
    23
    Assets, end of year
    $475,777
  • Tax year 2023

    $785,978

    Grants listed
    26
    Assets, end of year
    $334,539
  • Tax year 2022

    $281,860

    Grants listed
    11
    Assets, end of year
    $186,305
  • Tax year 2021

    $332,500

    Grants listed
    10
    Assets, end of year
    $52,127
  • Tax year 2020

    $238,600

    Grants listed
    14
    Assets, end of year
    $233,874
  • Tax year 2019

    $457,424

    Grants listed
    21
    Assets, end of year
    $36,324
  • Tax year 2018

    $443,155

    Grants listed
    25
    Assets, end of year
    $208,438

Grants paid in 2025

12 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Reelabilities InternationalNew York, NY

    To support platforms dedicated to international films focusing on the lives, stories, artistic expression of people with disabilities.

    $150,000
  2. Women's EnewsBrooklyn, NY

    Provides electronic news of womens issues

    $82,675
  3. Barnard CollegeNew York, NY

    Supports educations

    $50,000
  4. Cerebral Palsy FoundationNew York, NY

    Enables real world impact by collaborating with influential researchers, thinkers, and organizations around the world to drive significant change.supports medical research for cerebral palsy

    $50,000
  5. Paley Center for MediaNewyork, NY

    Social significance of film and television in our society

    $50,000
  6. Television Academy FoundationN Hollywood, CA

    Advancement of telecommunication arts and sciences and to foster creative leadership in the telecommunication industry

    $50,000
  7. Women's Media CenterWashington, DC

    Has the goal of making women visable and powerful in the media

    $50,000
  8. Disability Rights AdvocatesSan Francisco, CA

    To advance equal rights and opportunity for people with all types of disabilities nationwide.advocates for equal rights and opportunity for people with all types of disabilities

    $25,000
  9. New York Women in Film & TelevisionJackson HTS, NY

    Supports women in the performing arts

    $25,000
  10. Brookings InstitutionWashington, DC

    Conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, global economy, and economic development

    $10,000
  11. Chicken & Egg Films IncBrooklyn, NY

    To support women and gender-expansive filmmakers globally.

    $5,500
  12. Inevitable FoundationNew York, NY

    Assist disabled writers and filmmakers to achieve artistic and financial freedom

    $2,500

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Arts and culture5 grants $305,50058% of the total
  2. Human services1 grant $82,67516% of the total
  3. Education1 grant $50,00010% of the total
  4. Medical research1 grant $50,00010% of the total
  5. Civil rights1 grant $25,0005% of the total
  6. Social science1 grant $10,0002% of the total
  7. 1 other causes1 grant $2,500<1% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. New York8 grants $415,675
  2. California2 grants $75,000
  3. District of Columbia2 grants $60,000

Officers, directors and trustees

2 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Loreen ArbusPRESIDENT Hours 30Pay $0
  • Holly ToplitzkySECRETARY/TREASURER Hours 10Pay $0

The return

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