Tennessee · Private foundation
Lamp Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $107k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2024
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 39
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Lamp Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | $107k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $143k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $84k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $101k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $122k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $114k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $113k | 41% |
| FY2017 | 24 | $89k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rotary Foundation of Knoxville | $184,180 | 8 | 52% |
| American Academy in Rome | $156,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Beck Cultural Exchange Center Inc | $91,400 | 7 | 11% |
| Knoxville Symphony Society Incorporated | $38,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Knoxville Museum of Art | $33,350 | 8 | 0% |
| Knoxville Opera Company | $23,405 | 8 | 0% |
| Webb School of Knoxville | $12,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Episcopal School of Knoxville | $12,100 | 6 | 0% |
| Mott Community College | $11,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Knoxville Area Urban League Incorporated | $9,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($237k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lamp Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 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: Haslam Family Foundation Inc · East Tennessee Foundation · Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc · Bill and Crissy Haslam Foundation · The Aslan Foundation · The Boyd Foundation · The Clayton Family Foundation · Lawson Family Foundation · Regal Foundation · Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville · The Clayton Homes Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc
How this is measured
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About Lamp Foundation
- How much does Lamp Foundation give?
- Lamp Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $107,430 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 39 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Lamp Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (35%), Education (29%), International (18%).
- Who are Lamp Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rotary Foundation of Knoxville ($184k), American Academy in Rome ($157k), Beck Cultural Exchange Center Inc ($91k).
- Does Lamp Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lamp Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lamp Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Haslam Family Foundation Inc, East Tennessee Foundation, Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc.
- Where is Lamp Foundation based?
- Lamp Foundation is based in TN.
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