New York · Private foundation
Les Paul Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $418k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 63
- Grants FY2024
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 72
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 28
- Total assets, FY2024
- $42M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Les Paul Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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 | 63 | $418k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 53 | $525k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 72 | $566k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $665k | 52% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $518k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $550k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $429k | 71% |
| FY2017 | 23 | $435k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery World Ltd | $600,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Hearing Health Foundation | $450,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Music Will Inc | $428,750 | 6 | 2% |
| Notes For Notes Inc | $265,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Waukesha County Historical Society & Museum Inc | $233,500 | 6 | 29% |
| Soulsville Foundation | $195,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | $133,100 | 6 | 0% |
| Rowan University Foundation Inc | $132,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Musicians on Call Inc | $106,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Mahwah Museum Society Inc | $103,000 | 6 | 41% |
Show all 151 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($421k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Les Paul Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 142 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: D'Addario Foundation Inc · Gibson Gives Foundation Dba Gibson Gives · The Cma Foundation · The Lewis Prize Foundation Inc · Acm Lifting Lives · The Presser Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · Find Your Light Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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About Les Paul Foundation
- How much does Les Paul Foundation give?
- Les Paul Foundation reported 63 grants totaling $418,042 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 72 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Les Paul Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (52%), Education (28%), Health (15%).
- Who are Les Paul Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Discovery World Ltd ($600k), Hearing Health Foundation ($450k), Music Will Inc ($429k).
- Does Les Paul Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Les Paul Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Les Paul Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include D'Addario Foundation Inc, Gibson Gives Foundation Dba Gibson Gives, The Cma Foundation.
- Where is Les Paul Foundation based?
- Les Paul Foundation is based in NY.
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