Oklahoma · Private foundation
Lemon Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $177k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 24
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Lemon Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 22 | $177k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $150k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $147k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $165k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $103k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $104k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleats for Kids Foundation | $180,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Positive Tomorrows Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Kids Across America | $51,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Acts 2 United Methodist Church | $50,300 | 4 | n/a |
| City Care Inc | $48,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Infant Crisis Services Inc | $33,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Hopehouse Supportive & Transitional Living Inc | $27,500 | 2 | 2% |
| University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Skyline Church | $22,650 | 6 | n/a |
| Whiz Kids of Oklahoma Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 25 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleats for Kids Foundation | $180,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Positive Tomorrows Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Kids Across America | $51,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Acts 2 United Methodist Church | $50,300 | 4 | n/a |
| City Care Inc | $48,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Infant Crisis Services Inc | $33,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Hopehouse Supportive & Transitional Living Inc | $27,500 | 2 | 2% |
| University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Skyline Church | $22,650 | 6 | n/a |
| Whiz Kids of Oklahoma Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Oklahoma Methodist Conference | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Fields & Futures Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Impact Oklahoma Inc | $8,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Dinner With Love Foundation | $8,000 | 6 | 3% |
| The National World War II Museum Inc | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Sooner Golden Retriever Rescue Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Free to Live Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Tulsa Boys' Home Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Upward Transitions Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Twin Cedars Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lucky Lab Rescue Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Western Oaks Christian Church | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oklahoma City University | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Calvary Baptist Ministries Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Emmanuel Episcopal Church | $500 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($164k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lemon Family 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: Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Wegener Foundation Inc · American Fidelity Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Fred Jones Family Foundation · Bowen Foundation · The Merrick Foundation · Servant Foundation · Hudiburg Family Foundation Inc Attn David Hudiburg · Wilshire Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Lemon Family Foundation
- How much does Lemon Family Foundation give?
- Lemon Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $177,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Lemon Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (27%), Housing & Shelter (21%), Education (18%).
- Who are Lemon Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Cleats for Kids Foundation ($180k), Positive Tomorrows Inc ($150k), Kids Across America ($51k).
- Does Lemon Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lemon Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lemon Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc, El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation, Wegener Foundation Inc.
- Where is Lemon Family Foundation based?
- Lemon Family Foundation is based in OK.
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