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Lomax Family Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$14k
Granted FY2021
4
Grants FY2021
4
Organizations funded FY2021
50%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$5,901
Organizations funded a year
3 to 24
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 50% of the organizations Lomax Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20214$14k50%
FY20203$16k33%
FY201911$115k45%
FY201824$122k46%
FY201722$143kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Arts & Culture$233kEducation$53kEnvironment$42kFood & Nutrition$23kCivil Rights$9kHuman Services$9kPhilanthropy$8kRecreation & Sports$8kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 24 grantees
All grantees of Lomax Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Philadelphia Dance Company$75,00028%
Philadelphia Museum of Art$50,00030%
The John Bartram Association$40,00041%
Museum of the American Revolution$26,00040%
Kimmel Center Inc$20,00030%
Blackstar Projects Inc$15,00032%
Immaculata University$10,00020%
Woodmere Art Museum$10,00010%
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts$10,00010%
African American Museum in Philadelphia$9,00020%
Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates Inc$6,90010%
George School$6,8932n/a
The Peace Center Inc$5,00021%
The Harembee Foundation$3,5001n/a
Urban Affairs Coalition$2,00010%
Cobbs Creek Community Environmental$1,50012%
Ipraxis$1,50011%
Project Home$1,50010%
American Friends Service Committee$1,5002n/a
Friends Committee on National Legislation$1,50020%
Urban League of Greater Philadelphia$1,25010%
La Salle University$1,00510%
Third World Press Foundation Inc$1,0001n/a
Oblate Sisters of Providence$1,0001n/a

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($109k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lomax Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPhiladelphia Dance Company: $75,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetPhiladelphia Museum of Art: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe John Bartram Association: $40,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMuseum of the American Revolution: $26,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKimmel Center Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBlackstar Projects Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetImmaculata University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWoodmere Art Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAfrican American Museum in Philadelphia: $9,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPhiladelphia Mural Arts Advocates Inc: $6,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Peace Center Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUrban Affairs Coalition: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCobbs Creek Community Environmental: $1,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetIpraxis: $1,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetProject Home: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends Committee on National Legislation: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUrban League of Greater Philadelphia: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLa Salle University: $1,005 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 19.

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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.

The William Penn FoundationPA17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Lomax Family Foundation

How much does Lomax Family Foundation give?
Lomax Family Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $13,901 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Lomax Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (56%), Education (13%), Environment (10%).
Who are Lomax Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Philadelphia Dance Company ($75k), Philadelphia Museum of Art ($50k), The John Bartram Association ($40k).
Does Lomax Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lomax Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lomax Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William Penn Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation, Verizon Foundation.
Where is Lomax Family Foundation based?
Lomax Family Foundation is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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