Oklahoma · Private foundation
Lyon Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $605,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 49
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $59M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Lyon 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; $312k 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 | 40 | $2.1M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $1.9M | 43% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $2.0M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $2.5M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $1.9M | 44% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $1.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paths to Independence Inc | $930,000 | 6 | 60% |
| On the Rock Ministries Inc | $705,179 | 5 | 25% |
| Oklahoma Wesleyan University | $619,500 | 3 | 2% |
| City of Bartlesville | $599,487 | 6 | n/a |
| Lighthouse Outreach Center of Bartlesville Inc | $431,100 | 6 | 23% |
| B the Light Mission | $382,200 | 3 | 14% |
| The Agape Mission of Bartlesville Inc | $299,045 | 6 | 20% |
| Youth & Family Services of Washington County Inc | $291,000 | 1 | 24% |
| Salvation Army | $260,685 | 6 | n/a |
| Abilityworks of Oklahoma Inc | $249,307 | 6 | 2% |
Show all 68 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lyon Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 49 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Bartlesville Community Foundation · Jeanalee and Charles Parsons Foundation · Arvest Foundation · K S Adams Foundation Co-Trust · McAnaw Family Foundation · Cresap Family Foundation · Ben F and Karen K Baker Charitable Foundation · Bartlesville Regional United Way In · Barry W Lowe and Karen Sue Lowe Foundation for Education · Kenneth G and Diana Moon Adams Foundation · Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About Lyon Foundation
- How much does Lyon Foundation give?
- Lyon Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $2,485,097 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 49 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Lyon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (13%), Health (12%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
- Who are Lyon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Paths to Independence Inc ($930k), On the Rock Ministries Inc ($705k), Oklahoma Wesleyan University ($620k).
- Does Lyon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lyon Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lyon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bartlesville Community Foundation, Jeanalee and Charles Parsons Foundation, Arvest Foundation.
- Where is Lyon Foundation based?
- Lyon Foundation is based in OK.
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