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Dr Denis R and Diane Kay Robards Lyman Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$272k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 14
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$4.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Dr Denis R and Diane Kay Robards Lyman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving12$271k25%
FY202314$286k14%
FY202212$280k42%
FY20217$214k14%
FY20209$228k56%
FY20198$289kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$1.4MScience & Tech$70kAnimals$52kEnvironment$20kYouth Development$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kReligion$9kHuman Services$4kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Utah Tech University$350,0003n/a
University of Utah$85,0003n/a
Loving Angel Service Dogs Inc$50,000424%
Brigham Young University-Idaho$25,0001n/a
Salt Lake Community College$23,0003n/a
Bridgerland Technical College$23,0003n/a
Wide Open the Brody Hills Foundatio$20,000117%
Education Foundation of Jackson Hole$19,00032%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$11,00020%
Assistance League of Southern Utah$4,00041%
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All grantees of Dr Denis R and Diane Kay Robards Lyman Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Utah Tech University$350,0003n/a
University of Utah$85,0003n/a
Loving Angel Service Dogs Inc$50,000424%
Brigham Young University-Idaho$25,0001n/a
Salt Lake Community College$23,0003n/a
Bridgerland Technical College$23,0003n/a
Wide Open the Brody Hills Foundatio$20,000117%
Education Foundation of Jackson Hole$19,00032%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$11,00020%
Assistance League of Southern Utah$4,00041%
Senior Center of Jackson Hole Inc$25010%

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($957k), not named here.

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH9.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Dr Denis R and Diane Kay Robards Lyman Foundation

How much does Dr Denis R and Diane Kay Robards Lyman Foundation give?
Dr Denis R and Diane Kay Robards Lyman Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $272,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Dr Denis R and Diane Kay Robards Lyman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (88%), Science & Tech (4%), Animals (3%).
Who are Dr Denis R and Diane Kay Robards Lyman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Utah Tech University ($350k), University of Utah ($85k), Loving Angel Service Dogs Inc ($50k).
Does Dr Denis R and Diane Kay Robards Lyman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dr Denis R and Diane Kay Robards Lyman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dr Denis R and Diane Kay Robards Lyman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Dr Denis R and Diane Kay Robards Lyman Foundation based?
Dr Denis R and Diane Kay Robards Lyman Foundation is based in WY.

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 25 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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