Virginia · Private foundation
Lyerly Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $719k
- Granted FY2023
- 34
- Grants FY2023
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
71% of Lyerly Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Virginia Tech Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 18 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Lyerly Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 21 organizations, $719k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 12
- Total assets, FY2023
- $3.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Lyerly Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 32 | $613k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $1.1M | 13% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $117k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $107k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $126k | 54% |
| FY2017 | 23 | $73k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salem Academy and College | $545,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Radford University Foundation Inc | $533,000 | 5 | 6% |
| The Virginia Bioscience Foundation | $201,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Radford City Schools Partners for Excellence Foundation Inc | $137,750 | 5 | 89% |
| New River Community College Educational Foundation Inc | $105,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Feeding Southwest Virginia | $54,104 | 8 | 0% |
| Radford Fairlawn Daily Bread | $41,200 | 7 | 8% |
| Science Museum of Western Virginia | $30,150 | 4 | 2% |
| American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | $21,000 | 5 | 0% |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel H Arts & Sciences Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($639k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lyerly Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Community Foundation of the New River Valley Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · New River Valley Health Foundation · Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Celanese Foundation · United Way of Southwest Virginia Inc · C E Richardson Benevolent Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
About Lyerly Foundation
- How much does Lyerly Foundation give?
- Lyerly Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $718,655 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Lyerly Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (77%), Science & Tech (8%), Food & Nutrition (3%).
- Who are Lyerly Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Salem Academy and College ($545k), Radford University Foundation Inc ($533k), The Virginia Bioscience Foundation ($201k).
- Does Lyerly Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lyerly Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lyerly Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of the New River Valley Inc, Ge Aerospace Foundation, New River Valley Health Foundation.
- Where is Lyerly Foundation based?
- Lyerly Foundation is based in VA.
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