California · Private foundation
Mark C Lemons Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $513k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2024
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $143,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 30
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $7.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 47% of the organizations Mark C Lemons Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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 | 32 | $344k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $362k | 47% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $332k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $289k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $166k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $169k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $274k | 40% |
| FY2017 | 19 | $182k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Thacher School Inc | $116,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Forman School Inc | $115,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Las Madrinas | $105,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Summit Land Conservancy | $103,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Park City Day School | $77,690 | 4 | 1% |
| Tiger Woods Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Naturebridge | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Aaple Academy Foundation | $68,500 | 3 | 7% |
| Rod Dedeaux Foundation | $68,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Park City Education Foundation | $63,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($893k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mark C Lemons 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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Volentine Family Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Patricia Bragg Foundation · Ssir Cares Inc · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Latkin Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Mark C Lemons Foundation
- How much does Mark C Lemons Foundation give?
- Mark C Lemons Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $512,537 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Mark C Lemons Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (35%), Community Improvement (25%), Recreation & Sports (14%).
- Who are Mark C Lemons Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Thacher School Inc ($117k), Forman School Inc ($115k), Las Madrinas ($105k).
- Does Mark C Lemons Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mark C Lemons 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 Mark C Lemons Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Ann Jackson Family Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation.
- Where is Mark C Lemons Foundation based?
- Mark C Lemons Foundation is based in CA.
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