Florida · Private foundation
Mr & Mrs Wayne B Lyon 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.
- $94k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 62%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $13,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 62% of the organizations Mr & Mrs Wayne B Lyon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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 | 22 | $93k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $89k | 62% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $113k | 41% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $96k | 84% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $85k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $103k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $84k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $150k | 22% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cranbrook Educational Community | $332,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Moorings Park Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Both Hands Foundation | $27,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Alliance for Period Supplies of SWFL Inc | $25,500 | 3 | 5% |
| Neighborhood Health Clinic Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Friends of the Wissahickon Inc | $17,550 | 4 | 0% |
| Turning Point USA Inc | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Prager University Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bradenton Christian School Society Inc DBA Bradenton Christian School | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Chestnut Hill Garden District Fund | $7,500 | 4 | 6% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($242k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mr & Mrs Wayne B Lyon 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: Collier Community Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Mr & Mrs Wayne B Lyon Foundation
- How much does Mr & Mrs Wayne B Lyon Foundation give?
- Mr & Mrs Wayne B Lyon Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $94,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mr & Mrs Wayne B Lyon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), Philanthropy (24%), Health (13%).
- Who are Mr & Mrs Wayne B Lyon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cranbrook Educational Community ($333k), Moorings Park Foundation Inc ($200k), Both Hands Foundation ($28k).
- Does Mr & Mrs Wayne B Lyon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mr & Mrs Wayne B Lyon 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 Mr & Mrs Wayne B Lyon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Collier Community Foundation Inc, Chubb Charitable Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Mr & Mrs Wayne B Lyon Foundation based?
- Mr & Mrs Wayne B Lyon Foundation is based in FL.
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