Ohio · Private foundation
L Z Francis Foundation Ima
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.
- $610k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2024
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $119,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $6.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations L Z Francis Foundation Ima funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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 | 28 | $566k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $592k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $574k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $549k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $536k | 24% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $586k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $641k | 44% |
| FY2017 | 29 | $589k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vermont Land Trust Inc | $680,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Intervale Center Inc | $340,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Shelburne Farms | $261,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc | $215,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd | $205,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Oxfam-America Inc | $160,000 | 8 | 0% |
| South Hero Library Foundation Inc | $130,000 | 6 | 21% |
| Outright Vermont | $127,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Trust for Public Land | $115,000 | 5 | 0% |
| President and Fellows of Middlebury College | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
L Z Francis Foundation Ima supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Vermont Community Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · Mascoma Bank Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Trout Lily Foundation · High Meadows Fund Inc · The Waterwheel Foundation · The Argosy Foundation · The Onda Foundation Inc · The University of Vermont Medical Center
How this is measured
About L Z Francis Foundation Ima
- How much does L Z Francis Foundation Ima give?
- L Z Francis Foundation Ima reported 29 grants totaling $609,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does L Z Francis Foundation Ima fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (30%), Food & Nutrition (18%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are L Z Francis Foundation Ima's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Vermont Land Trust Inc ($680k), Intervale Center Inc ($340k), Shelburne Farms ($261k).
- Does L Z Francis Foundation Ima fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does L Z Francis Foundation Ima 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 L Z Francis Foundation Ima?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc, Lintilhac Foundation Inc.
- Where is L Z Francis Foundation Ima based?
- L Z Francis Foundation Ima is based in OH.
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