Illinois · Private foundation
Lost Pond 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.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $255,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 21
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $36M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Lost Pond Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $340k 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 | 28 | $1.8M | 39% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $973k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $697k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $214k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
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, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| By The Hand Club For Kids | $525,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Indiana University Foundation | $395,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Joliet | $390,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Donald Danforth Plant Science Center | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Brilliant Detroit | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cristo Rey Network | $75,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lost Pond Foundation 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: Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Lost Pond Foundation
- How much does Lost Pond Foundation give?
- Lost Pond Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $2,003,350 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 21 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Lost Pond Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (24%), Health (20%), Youth Development (12%).
- Who are Lost Pond Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: By The Hand Club For Kids ($525k), Indiana University Foundation ($395k), Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Joliet ($390k).
- Does Lost Pond Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lost Pond 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 Lost Pond Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baird Foundation Inc, American Endowment Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Lost Pond Foundation based?
- Lost Pond Foundation is based in IL.
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