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Danny Lyon Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,000
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$6k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$44kEducation$7kInternational$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$500Philanthropy$500Civil Rights$200

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Danny Lyon Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLouisville Visual Art Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetChicago Film Society: $3,300 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSncc Legacy Project: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlbany Civil Rights Institute Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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Find your warmest path to Danny Lyon Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Danny Lyon Foundation

How much does Danny Lyon Foundation give?
Danny Lyon Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $2,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Danny Lyon Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (81%), Education (12%), International (4%).
Who are Danny Lyon Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Louisville Visual Art Inc ($40k), Chicago Film Society ($3k), International Rescue Committee INC ($2k).
Does Danny Lyon Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Danny Lyon Foundation based?
Danny Lyon Foundation is based in NM.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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