Eric & Simone Lang Foundation
At a glance
This funder does not accept unsolicited applications. The foundation chooses the organisations it funds itself.
Key takeaways
- The foundation makes contributions only to organisations it has preselected and does not accept unsolicited requests, so a cold approach is unlikely to succeed, and the filing gives no route to being selected.
- If your organisation has no prior link to the foundation, treat this as a long shot and do not send an unsolicited request.
- Where an approach is possible, a modest request fits its usual pattern: about 8 in 10 of its grants to organisations fall between $5,000 and $44,000, with a median of $15,000, although its largest grant was $90,000.
- Its giving has risen to $2,217,000, and about 30% of its grant dollars went to organisations it had funded before, so relationships with existing grantees appear to matter, but the filings state no geographic focus or subject priorities that would confirm your work fits.
Overview
Eric & Simone Lang Foundation is a US private foundation administered by its trustee, Bank of America NA, in Pennington, NJ.
What they fund
Profile based on the foundation's IRS Form 990-PF filings (TY2025, TY2024, TY2023) only: no website or other web source for the foundation was found. Every statement is checked against the filings. Sources read on 13 October 2026.
Priority Areas
The filings describe the grants as unrestricted general support and general operating support. The recipients include health-care and nursing organisations; museums, conservatories, schools and other arts or education bodies; food banks and hunger-relief organisations; humanitarian and refugee-relief charities; environmental and animal-welfare groups; and organisations providing legal aid, family services and community support. The recorded awards also include disaster-response, public media and literacy organisations. The grant record shows support across a broad range of charitable organisations, rather than a stated set of subject priorities. The filings provide no narrative description of a funding strategy, applicant eligibility or geographic limits.
Geographic Focus
No geographic focus is stated; the filings show grants mainly in New York, California, Maine and District of Columbia.
How to apply
The foundation makes contributions only to preselected charitable organisations and does not accept unsolicited requests. The filing gives no further process for seeking selection.
Application success factors
- Repeat giving: In its TY2025 filing, 30% of its grant dollars to organisations went to organisations it had also funded in its TY2023 or TY2024 filing.
- Grant size: Across its TY2023, TY2024 and TY2025 filings, half of its 134 grants to organisations were $15,000 or less.
Where grants go
From grants to organisations in the foundation’s filings for tax years 2023–2025.
Grant dollars by state
6 other states: 6%
Outside the US or with no state on the filing: 4%
- The largest single recipient received 7% of grant dollars to organisations.
- In tax year 2025, 30% of grant dollars went to organisations Eric & Simone Lang Foundation had funded in earlier filings.
- No grants were paid directly to organisations outside the US.
- 1% of grant dollars went to intermediaries that regrant to other organisations.
Grants
How much do they typically give?
Share of 104 grants in tax year 2025 by size
Median $25,000 (tax year 2025)
The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:
- MaineHealth · Unrestricted general$90,0002025 tax year
- California Jazz Conservatory · Unrestricted general$67,0002025 tax year
- Santa Rosa Junior College Foundation · Unrestricted general$50,0002025 tax year
- Redwood Empire Food Bank · Unrestricted general$50,0002025 tax year
- Doctors Without Borders USA · Unrestricted general$50,0002025 tax year
- Center for Volunteer and Nonprofit Leaders · Unrestricted general$50,0002025 tax year
- Camden Area District Nursing Association · Unrestricted general$50,0002025 tax year
- North Country School · Unrestricted general$50,0002025 tax year
Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.
Officers and directors
- Simone Lang — Co-Trustee
From the latest Form 990-PF filing
3 years of tax filings
| Year | Total expenses | Grants paid | Assets | Filing document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 tax year | $220,227 | $135,100 | $39,308,384 | Filing for 2023 tax year |
| 2024 tax year | $871,980 | $573,000 | $56,329,888 | Filing for 2024 tax year |
| 2025 tax year | $2,637,365 | $2,217,000 | $67,677,530 | Filing for 2025 tax year |
Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.
Sources
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- Pennington, NJ (office of its trustee, Bank of America NA)
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Hinchilla drafts your answers around this funder's priorities, using your organisation's own documents.
No credit card required
Contact
- Pennington, NJ (office of its trustee, Bank of America NA)