California · Private foundation
Lear Family 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.
- $788k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2024
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $401,750
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 106
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- 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, 38% of the organizations Lear Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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 | 27 | $776k | 52% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $794k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $1.2M | 42% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $1.2M | 43% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $921k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 63 | $2.0M | 59% |
| FY2018 | 87 | $1.9M | 60% |
| FY2017 | 106 | $2.2M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sundance Institute | $2,172,700 | 8 | 1% |
| Utah Film Center | $1,150,975 | 6 | 4% |
| Pal-O-Mine Equestrian Inc | $213,500 | 8 | 3% |
| Ballet Hispanico of New York Inc | $145,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Rainforest Alliance Inc | $145,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc | $140,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Youth Represent Inc | $126,000 | 6 | 2% |
| People for the American Way | $107,600 | 4 | 1% |
| Women Make Movies Inc | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Advance Democracy Inc | $95,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 159 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 100 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lear Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 143 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: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Adams Cowan Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Mark E Pollack Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The California Endowment
How this is measured
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About Lear Family Foundation
- How much does Lear Family Foundation give?
- Lear Family Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $788,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 106 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Lear Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (50%), Education (19%), Civil Rights (4%).
- Who are Lear Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Sundance Institute ($2.2M), Utah Film Center ($1.2M), Pal-O-Mine Equestrian Inc ($214k).
- Does Lear Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lear Family 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 Lear Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation.
- Where is Lear Family Foundation based?
- Lear Family Foundation is based in CA.
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