South Carolina · Private foundation
Lerner Gray 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.
- $59k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,410
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $303k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Lerner Gray Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% 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 | 23 | $59k | 48% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $28k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $37k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $35k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $36k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $36k | 64% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $46k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $39k | 33% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Palmetto Bluff Conservancy Inc | $49,297 | 6 | n/a |
| United Way of the Lowcountry | $45,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Udt - Seal Museum Association Inc | $30,475 | 3 | 0% |
| Haverhill Heritage Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Help-Kids-India Inc | $9,448 | 8 | 3% |
| Operation Patriots Fob Inc | $8,920 | 1 | 0% |
| Grace Club Inc | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Good News Jail & Prison Ministry | $7,800 | 6 | n/a |
| The Outside Foundation | $7,347 | 4 | 1% |
| Brillo de Mujer Home Inc | $5,400 | 1 | 10% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($107k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lerner Gray 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: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Hypertherm Hope Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About Lerner Gray Foundation
- How much does Lerner Gray Foundation give?
- Lerner Gray Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $59,309 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lerner Gray Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Philanthropy (16%), Environment (15%).
- Who are Lerner Gray Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Friends of the Palmetto Bluff Conservancy Inc ($49k), United Way of the Lowcountry ($45k), Udt - Seal Museum Association Inc ($30k).
- Does Lerner Gray Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lerner Gray 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 Lerner Gray Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Lowcountry, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc.
- Where is Lerner Gray Foundation based?
- Lerner Gray Foundation is based in SC.
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