Tennessee · Private foundation
Lemon-Aide Fund
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.
- $699k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2024
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,011
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $296,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 5
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Lemon-Aide Fund 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; $10k 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 | 7 | $442k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $178k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $69k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $80k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $36k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nashville Academy Theatre and Nashville Children's Theatre Assoc | $95,013 | 4 | 2% |
| Oasis Center Inc | $42,512 | 3 | 0% |
| University School of Nashville | $35,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Nashville Public Radio | $30,053 | 2 | 0% |
| Montessori Academy Incorporated | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($591k), not named here.
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Lemon-Aide Fund
- How much does Lemon-Aide Fund give?
- Lemon-Aide Fund reported 9 grants totaling $699,164 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Lemon-Aide Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (46%), Philanthropy (24%), Arts & Culture (16%).
- Who are Lemon-Aide Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Nashville Academy Theatre and Nashville Children's Theatre Assoc ($95k), Oasis Center Inc ($43k), University School of Nashville ($36k).
- Does Lemon-Aide Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lemon-Aide Fund 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 Lemon-Aide Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Lemon-Aide Fund based?
- Lemon-Aide Fund is based in TN.
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