Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Dl Saunders Lawrence Saunders Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $104k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations Dl Saunders Lawrence Saunders Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $104k | 70% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $95k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $99k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $95k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $106k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $105k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $105k | 53% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $109k | 59% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inn Dwelling Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Tree House Books | $25,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Need in Deed | $25,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Historic Fair Hill Inc | $20,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Saint James School | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Greener Partners | $20,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Artz Philadelphia | $19,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Camp Rainbow Inc | $19,000 | 4 | 10% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($116k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dl Saunders Lawrence Saunders Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Connelly Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Union Benevolent Association · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Claneil Foundation Inc · Sanders Caroline J S Td No 2
How this is measured
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About Dl Saunders Lawrence Saunders Foundation
- How much does Dl Saunders Lawrence Saunders Foundation give?
- Dl Saunders Lawrence Saunders Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $103,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dl Saunders Lawrence Saunders Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Food & Nutrition (10%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Dl Saunders Lawrence Saunders Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Inn Dwelling Inc ($30k), The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society ($30k), Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens ($30k).
- Does Dl Saunders Lawrence Saunders Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dl Saunders Lawrence Saunders Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dl Saunders Lawrence Saunders Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw, Connelly Foundation.
- Where is Dl Saunders Lawrence Saunders Foundation based?
- Dl Saunders Lawrence Saunders Foundation is based in PA.
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