California · Private foundation
Lyons Share 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.
- $3.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $65,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,501,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- 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 Share 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.
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 | 10 | $3.9M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $890k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $598k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $686k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $729k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $644k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $639k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $615k | 60% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Segerstrom Center for the Arts | $3,635,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Pacific Symphony | $2,270,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Pacific Chorale | $2,059,400 | 9 | 17% |
| Chorus America | $375,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Arts Orange County | $335,000 | 7 | 17% |
| Smithsonian Institution | $70,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Orange County Museum of Art | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Voice of Orange CountyOrg | $40,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Philharmonic Society of Orange County | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Newport Harbor Educational Foundation C/O Emily Evans | $30,000 | 4 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Segerstrom Center for the Arts | $3,635,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Pacific Symphony | $2,270,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Pacific Chorale | $2,059,400 | 9 | 17% |
| Chorus America | $375,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Arts Orange County | $335,000 | 7 | 17% |
| Smithsonian Institution | $70,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Orange County Museum of Art | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Voice of Orange CountyOrg | $40,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Philharmonic Society of Orange County | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Newport Harbor Educational Foundation C/O Emily Evans | $30,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Children's Hospital of Orange County | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Arts & Learning Corporation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($549k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lyons Share 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: Orange County Community Foundation · Mark Chapin Johnson Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Lyons Share Foundation
- How much does Lyons Share Foundation give?
- Lyons Share Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $3,943,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lyons Share Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (98%), Education (1%), Public Benefit (0%).
- Who are Lyons Share Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Segerstrom Center for the Arts ($3.6M), Pacific Symphony ($2.3M), Pacific Chorale ($2.1M).
- Does Lyons Share Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lyons Share 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 Share Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, Mark Chapin Johnson Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Lyons Share Foundation based?
- Lyons Share Foundation is based in CA.
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