North Carolina · Private foundation
Lenovo Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $823k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2026
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $151,554
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 30
- FY2021 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 6
- Total assets, FY2026
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 50% of the organizations Lenovo Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $395k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 16 | $823k | 38% |
| FY2025 | 18 | $766k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $578k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $1.7M | 57% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $505k | 70% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $557k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States Fund for Unicef | $1,000,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Laboratoria Inc | $589,000 | 5 | 8% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $300,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Girls Who Code Inc | $225,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Astronaut Scholarship Foundation Inc | $140,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Illinois Science and Technology Institute | $135,000 | 5 | 5% |
| The Links Inc | $125,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Dress for Success Triangle Nc | $105,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Kramden Institute Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| World Education and Development Fund | $100,000 | 1 | 6% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lenovo 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: Credit Suisse Americas Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · AT&T Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Baxter International Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
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About Lenovo Foundation
- How much does Lenovo Foundation give?
- Lenovo Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $823,038 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 30 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
- What does Lenovo Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are International (23%), Philanthropy (17%), Employment (9%).
- Who are Lenovo Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: United States Fund for Unicef ($1.0M), Laboratoria Inc ($589k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($300k).
- Does Lenovo Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lenovo Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lenovo Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Credit Suisse Americas Foundation, Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Duke Energy Foundation.
- Where is Lenovo Foundation based?
- Lenovo Foundation is based in NC.
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