Arizona · Private foundation
Lisherness Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $72k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2024
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $12,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $622k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Lisherness Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 | 12 | $72k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $43k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $33k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $32k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $37k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $16k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $24k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Mary's Food Bank Alliance | $56,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Maricopa County Community College District Foundation | $22,500 | 4 | 0% |
| New School for the Arts | $17,600 | 7 | 0% |
| The Simpatico Foundation Inc | $12,000 | 2 | 29% |
| Arizona Dance Coalition Inc | $11,000 | 4 | n/a |
| American Heart Association Inc | $8,750 | 2 | 0% |
| Islamic Community Center of Tempe | $7,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Ballet Arizona | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Musical Instrument Museum | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Mary's Food Bank Alliance | $56,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Maricopa County Community College District Foundation | $22,500 | 4 | 0% |
| New School for the Arts | $17,600 | 7 | 0% |
| The Simpatico Foundation Inc | $12,000 | 2 | 29% |
| Arizona Dance Coalition Inc | $11,000 | 4 | n/a |
| American Heart Association Inc | $8,750 | 2 | 0% |
| Islamic Community Center of Tempe | $7,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Ballet Arizona | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Musical Instrument Museum | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Islamic Center of North-East Valley Inc | $4,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Phoenix World Arts Collective | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Phoenix Gospel Mission | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Reggie Sanders Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Voices of the Desert | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($97k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lisherness Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Lisherness Foundation
- How much does Lisherness Foundation give?
- Lisherness Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $71,850 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Lisherness Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (19%), Arts & Culture (19%), Education (16%).
- Who are Lisherness Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: St Mary's Food Bank Alliance ($56k), Maricopa County Community College District Foundation ($23k), New School for the Arts ($18k).
- Does Lisherness Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lisherness 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 Lisherness Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Lisherness Foundation based?
- Lisherness Foundation is based in AZ.
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