Massachusetts · Private foundation
Key Lime 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.
- $30k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2024
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 8
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $7.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Key Lime Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 1 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $65k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $210k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $381k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $80k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $60k | 75% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $50k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $50k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Finance Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Alliance for Global Justice Corp | $195,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Sunrise Movement Education Fund | $125,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Brooklyn Community Bail Fund Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Posse Foundation Inc | $45,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Bail Fund | $40,000 | 2 | 3% |
| The Bail Project Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Thousand Currents | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 16 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Finance Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Alliance for Global Justice Corp | $195,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Sunrise Movement Education Fund | $125,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Brooklyn Community Bail Fund Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Posse Foundation Inc | $45,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Bail Fund | $40,000 | 2 | 3% |
| The Bail Project Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Thousand Currents | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sunrise Movement | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Movement Voter Fund | $20,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Earthjustice | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Wikimedia Foundation Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Needham Community Council Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($45k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Key Lime Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Key Lime Foundation
- How much does Key Lime Foundation give?
- Key Lime Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $30,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Key Lime Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (26%), Civil Rights (21%), Environment (17%).
- Who are Key Lime Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Social Finance Inc ($200k), Alliance for Global Justice Corp ($195k), Sunrise Movement Education Fund ($125k).
- Does Key Lime Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Key Lime 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 Key Lime Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Key Lime Foundation based?
- Key Lime Foundation is based in MA.
Play a game based on Key Lime’s filings →