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Lenovo Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $683k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TAKING IT GLOBAL | $151,554 |
| LABORATORIA INC | $104,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $102,484 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| GIRLS WHO CODE INC | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $50,000 |
| DRESS FOR SUCCESS | $35,000 |
| KRAMDEN INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| ILLINOIS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| ASTRONAUT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BLACK COLLEGIATE GAMING INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| MARBLES KIDS MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $873k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 21% of Lenovo Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2026, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $265k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2021–2022 · $300k · revenue +27%
- ISILLINOIS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE5× · 2021–2026 · $135k · revenue +51%
- TLTHE LINKS INC2× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +118%
Funded once
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +1%- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2023 · $150k
- TRTHE RESOURCE FOUNDATION (LATIMPACTO)one grant, 2025 · $100k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Associated universities inc (aui) collaborates with the scientific community and research sponsors to plan, build, and operate cutting-edge facilities. we cultivate excellence, deliver value, enhance education, and engage the public.
As an organization, the institute of food technologists is focusing its work in four main areas, or "roles and goals." each is wide-reaching and helps to advance our mission.steward for the profession and its community - provide learning,…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.
How this is measured
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 68 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds LABORATORIA INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WHO CODE INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE2ASIA ↗
- Who funds ASTRONAUT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE LINKS INC ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC ↗
- Who funds KRAMDEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds MARBLES KIDS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Central Carolinas Inc ↗
- Who funds WAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SYNCERE ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOAL Academy ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lenovo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lenovo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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