Delaware · Private foundation
Lyons Family 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.
- $57k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 10
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Lyons Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $50k | 67% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $35k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $11k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $33k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $29k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $18k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Altamont School | $93,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Birmingham Ultra Trail Society | $21,800 | 5 | n/a |
| Desert Island Supply Co | $2,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Help One Now | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Children's Harbor Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Junior League of Birmingham Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rotary Club of Birmingham Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Smile-A-Mile | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mason Music Foundation | $750 | 1 | 1% |
| Cahaba River Society Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 16 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Altamont School | $93,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Birmingham Ultra Trail Society | $21,800 | 5 | n/a |
| Desert Island Supply Co | $2,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Help One Now | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Children's Harbor Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Junior League of Birmingham Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rotary Club of Birmingham Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Smile-A-Mile | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mason Music Foundation | $750 | 1 | 1% |
| Cahaba River Society Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Wikimedia Foundation Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Food Bank of Central Alabama | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Red Mountain Park Foundation | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Pacific Battleship Center | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($46k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lyons Family 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: Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Debardeleben Foundation Inc · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation
How this is measured
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About Lyons Family Foundation
- How much does Lyons Family Foundation give?
- Lyons Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $56,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Lyons Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (65%), Religion (20%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
- Who are Lyons Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Altamont School ($93k), Birmingham Ultra Trail Society ($22k), Desert Island Supply Co ($3k).
- Does Lyons Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lyons Family 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 Lyons Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation, Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust, Hill Crest Foundation Inc.
- Where is Lyons Family Foundation based?
- Lyons Family Foundation is based in DE.
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