Maine · Private foundation
Lunder Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $24M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 153
- Grants FY2025
- 112
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,016
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,801,875
- Organizations funded a year
- 99 to 122
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $380k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Lunder Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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 | 106 | $24M | 18% |
| FY2024 | 112 | $22M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 120 | $19M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 118 | $21M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 116 | $14M | 26% |
| FY2020 | 122 | $14M | 39% |
| FY2019 | 115 | $15M | 61% |
| FY2017 | 99 | $16M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The President and Trustees of Colby College | $31,416,575 | 8 | 3% |
| Hebrew Senior Life Inc | $6,386,638 | 8 | 14% |
| Maine College of Art and Design | $5,018,660 | 8 | 3% |
| Thomas College | $4,803,829 | 8 | 2% |
| Lesley University | $3,720,016 | 7 | 1% |
| Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation | $3,468,579 | 8 | 4% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $2,129,262 | 5 | 0% |
| Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute | $2,064,320 | 4 | 5% |
| Dana-Farber Inc | $1,475,424 | 2 | 1% |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | $1,423,578 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 211 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 142 recipients with no EIN on record ($68M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lunder 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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Davis Family Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Onion Foundation · Libra Foundation · Harold Alfond Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation · Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson
How this is measured
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About Lunder Foundation
- How much does Lunder Foundation give?
- Lunder Foundation reported 153 grants totaling $24,357,347 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 99 and 122 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Lunder Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Arts & Culture (32%), Health (25%).
- Who are Lunder Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The President and Trustees of Colby College ($31M), Hebrew Senior Life Inc ($6.4M), Maine College of Art and Design ($5.0M).
- Does Lunder Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lunder Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lunder Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Davis Family Foundation, Sam L Cohen Foundation.
- Where is Lunder Foundation based?
- Lunder Foundation is based in ME.
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