California · Private foundation
Lyric Foundation Inc for Traditional Poetry
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.
- $61k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $58k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Lyric Foundation Inc for Traditional Poetry funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 15 | $61k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $61k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $53k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $55k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $56k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $53k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $42k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $47k | 30% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poetry Society of America | $62,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Engage Globally | $35,000 | 9 | 6% |
| Alexandria House | $35,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Student Action With Farmworkers | $31,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Chesapeake Multicultural Resource Center Inc | $18,500 | 6 | 1% |
| California Poets in the Schools | $15,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Maryland Humanities Council Inc | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| NorCal Resist | $10,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Hispanic Federation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poetry Society of America | $62,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Engage Globally | $35,000 | 9 | 6% |
| Alexandria House | $35,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Student Action With Farmworkers | $31,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Chesapeake Multicultural Resource Center Inc | $18,500 | 6 | 1% |
| California Poets in the Schools | $15,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Maryland Humanities Council Inc | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| NorCal Resist | $10,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Hispanic Federation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Democracy Forward | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Talbot Interfaith Shelter Inc | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Library Foundation of Los Angeles | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| 826la | $3,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Central American Resource Center - CARECEN - of California | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Justice Action Center | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Jaxx Theatricals Inc | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Academy of American Poets Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Institute for Southern Studies Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Gar Post 25 Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 2% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($203k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lyric Foundation Inc for Traditional Poetry 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.
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How this is measured
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About Lyric Foundation Inc for Traditional Poetry
- How much does Lyric Foundation Inc for Traditional Poetry give?
- Lyric Foundation Inc for Traditional Poetry reported 15 grants totaling $61,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lyric Foundation Inc for Traditional Poetry fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (58%), Education (21%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
- Who are Lyric Foundation Inc for Traditional Poetry's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Poetry Society of America ($62k), Engage Globally ($35k), Alexandria House ($35k).
- Does Lyric Foundation Inc for Traditional Poetry fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lyric Foundation Inc for Traditional Poetry 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 Lyric Foundation Inc for Traditional Poetry?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Foundation, The Raymond Frankel Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Lyric Foundation Inc for Traditional Poetry based?
- Lyric Foundation Inc for Traditional Poetry is based in CA.
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