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Lou & Lillian Padolf Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$55k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
40%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,750
Largest grant, FY2025
$17,500
Organizations funded a year
7 to 10
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$813k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Lou & Lillian Padolf Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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
FY2025still arriving7$55k14%
FY202410$50k40%
FY20237$50k0%
FY20229$50k22%
FY20218$42k13%
FY202010$41kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$255kYouth Development$33k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Florida State University$69,7006n/a
Citrus County 4-H Association Inc$33,25048%
University of Florida$16,4002n/a
University of Miami$6,10030%
Warner University$2,0001n/a
Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc$2,00010%
Saint Leo University Inc$2,00010%
Eckerd College$2,00010%
The University of Tampa Incorporated$1,00010%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($154k), not named here.

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About Lou & Lillian Padolf Foundation

How much does Lou & Lillian Padolf Foundation give?
Lou & Lillian Padolf Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $55,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Lou & Lillian Padolf Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (88%), Youth Development (12%).
Who are Lou & Lillian Padolf Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Florida State University ($70k), Citrus County 4-H Association Inc ($33k), University of Florida ($16k).
Does Lou & Lillian Padolf Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lou & Lillian Padolf Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Lou & Lillian Padolf Foundation based?
Lou & Lillian Padolf Foundation is based in AL.

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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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