South Carolina · Private foundation
Lenhardt 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.
- $67k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $22,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $616k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Lenhardt Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $67k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $52k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $29k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $45k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $2k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $69k | 56% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $9k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $19k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Garden Conservancy Inc | $47,200 | 5 | 0% |
| Historic Charleston Foundation | $45,874 | 5 | 0% |
| Charleston Library Society | $45,450 | 3 | 1% |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $33,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Carolina Art Association Dba Gibbes Museum of Art | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Preservation Society of Charleston Inc | $10,600 | 2 | 0% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lets Walk | $10,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Charleston Gaillard Management Corporation | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Charleston Horticultural Society | $5,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Garden Conservancy Inc | $47,200 | 5 | 0% |
| Historic Charleston Foundation | $45,874 | 5 | 0% |
| Charleston Library Society | $45,450 | 3 | 1% |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $33,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Carolina Art Association Dba Gibbes Museum of Art | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Preservation Society of Charleston Inc | $10,600 | 2 | 0% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lets Walk | $10,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Charleston Gaillard Management Corporation | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Charleston Horticultural Society | $5,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Charleston Parks Conservancy | $3,333 | 1 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Phoenix Art Museum | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $850 | 3 | 0% |
| The Hun School of Princeton | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Pompion Hill Chapel Foundation Inc | $500 | 1 | 2% |
| The Cultural Landscape Foundation | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Garden Guild of Winnetka co Lynne Frank | $250 | 1 | 1% |
| Shelburne Museum Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston College | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| The Irish Georgian Society Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| North Shore Country Day School | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($63k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lenhardt Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Atlantic Services of Charleston Cha · John M Rivers Jr Foundation · Elbridge & Evelyn Stuart Foundation · Kirby Family Foundation Inc · Guffey Family Foundation · John Winthrop Charitable Trust · The Stony Point Foundation · South Carolina Humanities Council Inc · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Lenhardt Foundation
- How much does Lenhardt Foundation give?
- Lenhardt Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $67,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lenhardt Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (46%), Environment (28%), Health (3%).
- Who are Lenhardt Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Garden Conservancy Inc ($47k), Historic Charleston Foundation ($46k), Charleston Library Society ($45k).
- Does Lenhardt Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lenhardt 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 Lenhardt Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Lenhardt Foundation based?
- Lenhardt Foundation is based in SC.
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