California · Private foundation
Lady's Secret Foundation
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.
- $42k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $848k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Lady's Secret Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 | 17 | $42k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $49k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $51k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $78k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $28k | 62% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $40k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $41k | 7% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $46k | 53% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parkinson's Foundation Inc | $17,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Communities in Schools | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Friends of Sheba Medical Center Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law | $14,525 | 5 | 0% |
| Connecting to Cure Crohn's and Colitis Inc | $12,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Venice Family Clinic | $11,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $10,522 | 3 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | $10,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation | $10,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Vista del Mar Child and Family Services | $10,250 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($211k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lady's Secret Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Lady's Secret Foundation
- How much does Lady's Secret Foundation give?
- Lady's Secret Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $41,530 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lady's Secret Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (43%), Education (11%), International (8%).
- Who are Lady's Secret Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Parkinson's Foundation Inc ($18k), Communities in Schools ($15k), American Friends of Sheba Medical Center Inc ($15k).
- Does Lady's Secret Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lady's Secret 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 Lady's Secret Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, The Rose Hills Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation.
- Where is Lady's Secret Foundation based?
- Lady's Secret Foundation is based in CA.
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