Indiana · Public charity
Lids Foundation Inc
The lids foundation provides support directly to local communities and to the charitable organizations that serve them to enable community members of all ages to live more active, healthy, and productive lives.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 19
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 70%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $897k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $175,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 17
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 70% of the organizations Lids Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $272k 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 | 19 | $897k | 74% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $532k | 70% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $167k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $318k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $343k | 92% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $100k | 63% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $465k | 60% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $624k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our Military Kids Inc | $460,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Hope for Henry Foundation | $250,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation | $215,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc | $204,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Nine 13 Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 21% |
| Every Kid Sports | $150,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Little Wish Foundation Inc | $145,582 | 3 | 32% |
| Kaboom Inc | $137,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Covenant House | $116,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Double Q Foundation | $111,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 63 grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($75k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lids Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 49 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: Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · More Than a Phone Inc · National Basketball Players Association Foundation · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
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About Lids Foundation Inc
- How much does Lids Foundation Inc give?
- Lids Foundation Inc reported 19 itemized grants totaling $896,728, out of $1,095,048 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Lids Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (27%), Recreation & Sports (23%), Philanthropy (19%).
- Who are Lids Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Our Military Kids Inc ($460k), Hope for Henry Foundation ($250k), Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation ($216k).
- Does Lids Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 70% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lids Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc, Lilly Endowment Inc, More Than a Phone Inc.
- Where is Lids Foundation Inc based?
- Lids Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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