California · Private foundation
Lienonefung 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.
- $74k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $560k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Lienonefung Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEnvironmentFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $74k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $14k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $12k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $11k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $28k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $850 | 100% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $20k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $51k | 0% |
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What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Health$332kEducation$46kFood & Nutrition$11kScience & Tech$5kArts & Culture$4kEnvironment$4kHuman Services$2kPublic Benefit$2kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
IL
NY
MA
CA
VA
MD
AZ
DC
GA
TX
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Heart Association Inc | $43,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | $11,265 | 4 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $8,350 | 6 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation | $5,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $2,100 | 1 | 0% |
| Ciudad De Angeles Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mandarin Language and Cultural Center | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kqed Inc | $2,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Heart Association Inc | $43,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | $11,265 | 4 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $8,350 | 6 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation | $5,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $2,100 | 1 | 0% |
| Ciudad De Angeles Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mandarin Language and Cultural Center | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kqed Inc | $2,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Disabled Veterans National Foundation | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| California State Parks Foundation | $1,250 | 2 | 0% |
| National Park Foundation | $1,200 | 2 | 0% |
| National Parks Conservation Association | $1,150 | 4 | 0% |
| Peninsula Open Space Trust | $1,100 | 4 | 0% |
| National Wildlife Federation | $450 | 1 | n/a |
| Yosemite Foundation | $300 | 2 | 0% |
| Mozilla Foundation | $263 | 1 | n/a |
| Smithsonian Institution | $210 | 2 | 0% |
| Sierra Club | $120 | 1 | 0% |
| AARP Foundation | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| March of Dimes Inc | $50 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($119k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lienonefung Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.
About Lienonefung Foundation
- How much does Lienonefung Foundation give?
- Lienonefung Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $73,879 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lienonefung Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (81%), Education (11%), Food & Nutrition (3%).
- Who are Lienonefung Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of California San Francisco Foundation ($200k), American Heart Association Inc ($43k), Second Harvest of Silicon Valley ($11k).
- Does Lienonefung Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lienonefung 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.
- Where is Lienonefung Foundation based?
- Lienonefung Foundation is based in CA.
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