California · Private foundation
Dr Rene & Daisy Lim Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $13k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $773k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Dr Rene & Daisy Lim Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 82% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthHousing & ShelterEducationHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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 year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $13k | 70% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $41k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $36k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $50k | 69% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $125k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $47k | 92% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $13k | 75% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $33k | 83% |
85% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Education$300kReligion$21kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kHealth$13kHousing & Shelter$4kFood & Nutrition$2kArts & Culture$1kHuman Services$600Other$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
MI
NY
IA
CA
AR
TN
DC
FL
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles Mission Inc | $2,650 | 5 | 0% |
| Syracuse University | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Rescue Mission Alliance | $1,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Louisville High School | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $800 | 2 | 0% |
| The Shriners' Hospital for Children | $750 | 2 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles Mission Inc | $2,650 | 5 | 0% |
| Syracuse University | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Rescue Mission Alliance | $1,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Louisville High School | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $800 | 2 | 0% |
| The Shriners' Hospital for Children | $750 | 2 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Hope the Mission | $100 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($372k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dr Rene & Daisy Lim Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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.
About Dr Rene & Daisy Lim Foundation
- How much does Dr Rene & Daisy Lim Foundation give?
- Dr Rene & Daisy Lim Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $13,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dr Rene & Daisy Lim Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (79%), Religion (5%), Public Safety & Disaster (5%).
- Who are Dr Rene & Daisy Lim Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Los Angeles Mission Inc ($3k), Syracuse University ($2k), Rescue Mission Alliance ($1k).
- Does Dr Rene & Daisy Lim Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dr Rene & Daisy Lim Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Dr Rene & Daisy Lim Foundation based?
- Dr Rene & Daisy Lim Foundation is based in CA.
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