How much does Lyrasis give?

Lyrasis reported 5 grants totaling $106,137 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 46 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does Lyrasis fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Arts & Culture (34%), Science & Tech (8%).

Who are Lyrasis's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: State of West Virginia ($66k), University of Utah ($65k), George Mason University ($40k).

Does Lyrasis fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Lyrasis?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation, The Shubert Foundation Inc.

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Georgia · Public charity

Lyrasis

LYRASIS empowers libraries, archives and museums through content services, open technologies and community-based solutions that expand access to information, preserve cultural heritage, and advance the shared goals of our members and the communities we serve. Collaboratively, we build a future that is inclusive, equitable, accessible and…

$106k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 5
Grants FY2025: 46
Organizations funded FY2024: 100%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $23,975
Largest grant, FY2025: $29,600
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 46; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 5
Total assets, FY2025: $97M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Lyrasis funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $456k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	5	$106k	100%
FY2024	46	$456k	100%
FY2022	5	$159k	80%
FY2021	5	$126k	100%
FY2020	6	$123k	83%
FY2019	5	$126k	100%
FY2018	6	$145k	100%
FY2017	4	$87k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$671kArts & Culture$463kScience & Tech$108kYouth Development$39kPublic Benefit$27kEnvironment$17kPublic Safety & Disaster$16kPhilanthropy$16k

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
State of West Virginia	$66,300	2	n/a
University of Utah	$64,800	2	n/a
George Mason University	$39,500	1	n/a
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	$36,300	1	0%
King County Library System and City of Burien Condominium Association	$34,600	1	n/a
Louisiana State University	$31,800	1	n/a
Texas A&M Foundation	$30,000	1	0%
Lehigh University	$29,600	1	0%
Indiana University School of Medicine	$29,500	1	n/a
Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia	$28,800	1	n/a

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All grantees of Lyrasis by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
State of West Virginia	$66,300	2	n/a
University of Utah	$64,800	2	n/a
George Mason University	$39,500	1	n/a
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	$36,300	1	0%
King County Library System and City of Burien Condominium Association	$34,600	1	n/a
Louisiana State University	$31,800	1	n/a
Texas A&M Foundation	$30,000	1	0%
Lehigh University	$29,600	1	0%
Indiana University School of Medicine	$29,500	1	n/a
Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia	$28,800	1	n/a
University of Mississippi Foundation	$28,198	1	0%
Wilmington Institute Free Library	$28,000	1	1%
Ktwu	$26,548	1	n/a
University of Massachusetts	$25,816	1	n/a
Alumni Association of the University of Michigan	$25,380	1	n/a
Columbus Metropolitan Library	$25,200	1	n/a
Johnson C Smith University	$25,000	1	0%
University of Kentucky Research Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
Florida International University Foundation Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Maui Arts & Cultural Center	$25,000	1	0%
Towson University Foundation Inc	$25,000	1	0%
World Arts West	$25,000	1	4%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	$25,000	1	n/a
The International Association of Blacks in Dance	$25,000	1	0%
Friends of Benicia Public Library	$24,850	1	40%
University of Connecticut	$24,277	1	n/a
Tuskegee University	$23,975	1	0%
Friends of Kentucky Libraries Inc	$23,808	1	n/a
Duke University	$23,375	1	0%
Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum	$21,500	1	0%
Friends of the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library Inc	$20,130	1	9%
University of Virginia Foundation	$19,223	1	0%
Thomas Edison State University	$18,250	1	n/a
Oregon State University Foundation	$17,220	1	0%
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit	$16,310	1	0%
The Robert W Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center Inc	$16,190	1	0%
Westmoreland Cultural Trust	$16,069	1	0%
Yeshiva University	$16,000	1	0%
Story Tapestries Inc	$12,780	1	1%
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte	$12,100	1	n/a
Pacific Northwest Foundation Inc	$11,500	1	n/a
Shreveport Symphony Inc	$7,250	1	1%
California Shakespeare Theater	$7,250	1	0%
Denver Center for the Performing Arts	$7,250	1	0%
Cleveland Institute of Music	$7,250	1	0%
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Inc	$7,250	1	0%
Grupo de Teatro Sinergia-Siner	$7,250	1	3%
Festiv-All Charleston West Virginia Inc	$7,250	1	1%
The Chamber Orchestra of the Springs	$7,250	1	2%
The Theatre at Boston Court	$7,250	1	0%
Elgin Symphony Orchestra Association	$7,250	1	0%
The Portland Playhouse	$7,250	1	0%
Montgomery County Council for the Arts	$7,250	1	1%
Red Clay Dance Company Inc	$7,250	1	1%
California Center for the Arts Escondido Foundation	$7,250	1	0%
Coro de Ninos de Ponce Inc	$7,250	1	n/a
The Choir School of Delaware Inc	$7,250	1	1%
The Black Hills Playhouse Inc	$7,250	1	0%
Kayenta Arts Foundation	$7,250	1	1%
Performing Arts Houston	$7,250	1	0%
East Lake Expression Engine	$7,250	1	2%
Lula Washington Contemporary Dance Foundation	$7,250	1	1%
Parlando Incorporated	$7,250	1	1%
New Orleans Film & Video Society Inc	$7,250	1	0%
Wonderbound	$7,250	1	0%
La Pea Cultural Center Inc	$7,250	1	1%
Area Stage Inc	$7,250	1	0%
Lone Tree Arts Center Fund	$7,250	1	10%
The Richmond Ballet	$7,250	1	0%
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	$6,037	1	n/a
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska	$5,550	1	n/a
Denver Young Artists Orchestra Association	$5,297	1	1%
The Florida Orchestra	$5,000	1	0%
Admiral Theatre Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
Stuarts Opera House	$5,000	1	0%
Rawdance	$5,000	1	2%
The Dallas Opera	$5,000	1	0%
Newfields Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Reno Philharmonic Association Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Atlas Performing Arts Center	$5,000	1	0%

Lyrasis supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 60 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 60.

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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.

New England Foundation for the Arts IncorporatedMA20.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Arts Midwest Incorporated · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · Ibm International Foundation · D'Addario Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ford Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Lyrasis

How much does Lyrasis give?: Lyrasis reported 5 grants totaling $106,137 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 46 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Lyrasis fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Arts & Culture (34%), Science & Tech (8%).
Who are Lyrasis's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: State of West Virginia ($66k), University of Utah ($65k), George Mason University ($40k).
Does Lyrasis fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lyrasis?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation, The Shubert Foundation Inc.
Where is Lyrasis based?: Lyrasis is based in GA.