Washington · Private foundation
Lenore Hanauer 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.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 52
- Grants FY2024
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 60
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Lenore Hanauer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $575k 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 | 52 | $1.4M | 4% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $1.3M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 53 | $1.2M | 4% |
| FY2021 | 59 | $1.5M | 5% |
| FY2020 | 60 | $1.7M | 22% |
| FY2019 | 58 | $1.9M | 7% |
| FY2018 | 55 | $1.8M | 27% |
| FY2017 | 42 | $1.4M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planned Parenthood Great Northwest Hawaii Alaska Indiana and Kentucky | $1,000,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Civic Education Fund | $800,000 | 2 | 100% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $725,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Neighborcare Health | $700,000 | 8 | 0% |
| University of Washington | $525,000 | 7 | n/a |
| King County Sexual Assault Resource Center | $385,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Rave Foundation | $370,000 | 5 | 16% |
| Conservation Nw | $325,000 | 8 | 2% |
| The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc | $300,000 | 8 | 0% |
| United Way of King County | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 65 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lenore Hanauer Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 62 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: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Real Progress Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Artsfund · Lucky Seven Foundation · United Way of King County · Medina Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Impactassetsinc
How this is measured
About Lenore Hanauer Foundation
- How much does Lenore Hanauer Foundation give?
- Lenore Hanauer Foundation reported 52 grants totaling $1,357,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 60 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Lenore Hanauer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (16%), Arts & Culture (13%), Environment (12%).
- Who are Lenore Hanauer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Planned Parenthood Great Northwest Hawaii Alaska Indiana and Kentucky ($1.0M), Civic Education Fund ($800k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($725k).
- Does Lenore Hanauer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lenore Hanauer 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 Lenore Hanauer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation.
- Where is Lenore Hanauer Foundation based?
- Lenore Hanauer Foundation is based in WA.
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