Michigan · Private foundation
Lion Rock Charitable Trust
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.
- $329k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Lion Rock Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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 | 20 | $329k | 35% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $149k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $122k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $86k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $176k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $110k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $138k | 92% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $6k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Rapids Christian Schools | $175,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Potters House | $97,550 | 7 | 0% |
| Literacy Center of West Michigan | $86,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Worklife Partnership | $45,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Wedgwood Christian Services | $42,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Grand Rapids Junior Robotics | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| South End Community Outreach Ministries | $19,500 | 5 | 1% |
| United Methodist Community House | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Affinity Mentoring | $12,500 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($461k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lion Rock Charitable Trust 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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Frey Foundation · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Steelcase Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · The Wege Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Daniel & Pamella Devos Foundation
How this is measured
About Lion Rock Charitable Trust
- How much does Lion Rock Charitable Trust give?
- Lion Rock Charitable Trust reported 20 grants totaling $328,549 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lion Rock Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Human Services (11%), International (10%).
- Who are Lion Rock Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Grand Rapids Christian Schools ($175k), The Potters House ($98k), Literacy Center of West Michigan ($86k).
- Does Lion Rock Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lion Rock Charitable Trust 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 Lion Rock Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Rapids Community Foundation, Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation, Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation.
- Where is Lion Rock Charitable Trust based?
- Lion Rock Charitable Trust is based in MI.
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