Georgia · Private foundation
Lacy Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $71k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $409k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Lacy Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 20 | $71k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $74k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $68k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $67k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $115k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $128k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $119k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $126k | 10% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cocos Cupboard Inc | $92,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Cumberland Academy of Georgia Inc | $65,000 | 3 | 1% |
| St Benedicts Episcopal Church LLC | $56,500 | 9 | n/a |
| St Benedicts Episcopal Day School Inc | $50,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Lovett School Inc | $38,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Schenck School | $28,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Must Ministries Inc | $23,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Shepherd Center Foundation Inc | $21,000 | 4 | 26% |
| Flint Riverkeeper Inc | $21,000 | 5 | 2% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $18,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($252k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lacy Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 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 Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · The Garner Foundation · Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Farmer Lee Foundation Inc · The Klamon Family Foundation Inc · The Inman Foundation · The Woodcrest Foundation · Brighton Foundation Trust Robert D Markley Trustee · The Billi Marcus Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation
How this is measured
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About Lacy Foundation Inc
- How much does Lacy Foundation Inc give?
- Lacy Foundation Inc reported 20 grants totaling $70,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lacy Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Health (19%), Religion (17%).
- Who are Lacy Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cocos Cupboard Inc ($92k), Cumberland Academy of Georgia Inc ($65k), St Benedicts Episcopal Church LLC ($57k).
- Does Lacy Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lacy Foundation Inc 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 Lacy Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc, The Garner Foundation.
- Where is Lacy Foundation Inc based?
- Lacy Foundation Inc is based in GA.
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