Colorado · Public charity
Lyra
LYRA incubates and accelerates high-impact education initiatives that tackle some of the biggest challenges facing education, deeply rooted in diverse and inclusive community voices.
- $409k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $378k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 45
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Lyra funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 6 | $378k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $25k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $292k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $505k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $875k | 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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Empower Schools Inc | $927,500 | 3 | 8% |
| Luminary Learning Network | $300,000 | 1 | 52% |
| The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center | $70,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Yampa Valley Sustainability Council | $50,000 | 2 | 4% |
| The Colorado Education Initiative | $40,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Reschool | $35,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Moonshot edVentures | $28,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Education Reform Now Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Inspire | $20,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Young African Americans for Social and Political Activism | $20,000 | 1 | 4% |
Show all 38 grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($321k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lyra 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.
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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: Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rooted · Wend II Inc · Donnell-Kay Foundation Inc · Margulf Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Daniels Fund · El Pomar Foundation
How this is measured
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About Lyra
- How much does Lyra give?
- Lyra reported 6 itemized grants totaling $377,500, out of $408,600 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 45 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Lyra fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (72%), Philanthropy (7%), Environment (6%).
- Who are Lyra's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Empower Schools Inc ($928k), Luminary Learning Network ($300k), The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center ($70k).
- Does Lyra fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lyra?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rose Community Foundation, The Denver Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation.
- Where is Lyra based?
- Lyra is based in CO.
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