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Peter Fogliano & Hal Lester Foundation Inc

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.

$92k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$53,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 9
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$933k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Peter Fogliano & Hal Lester Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$89k13%
FY20238$200k25%
FY20227$25k14%
FY20219$110k22%
FY20207$46k0%
FY20199$88kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$376kHealth$62kEnvironment$35kAnimals$29kYouth Development$27kEducation$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$8k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Peter Fogliano & Hal Lester Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of Florence: $375,900 over 5y, 14% of budgetBig Sur Health Center Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetAugusta University Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys Republic: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMonterey Bay Aquarium Foundation: $17,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc: $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBig Life Foundation USA: $16,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Liver Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRancho Cielo Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust USA Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWright Foundation for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus: $1,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPoint Lobos Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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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 13.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Peter Fogliano & Hal Lester Foundation Inc

How much does Peter Fogliano & Hal Lester Foundation Inc give?
Peter Fogliano & Hal Lester Foundation Inc reported 9 grants totaling $92,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 9 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Peter Fogliano & Hal Lester Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (67%), Health (11%), Environment (6%).
Who are Peter Fogliano & Hal Lester Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Friends of Florence ($376k), Big Sur Health Center Inc ($30k), Augusta University Foundation Inc ($25k).
Does Peter Fogliano & Hal Lester Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Peter Fogliano & Hal Lester Foundation Inc 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 Peter Fogliano & Hal Lester Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Peter Fogliano & Hal Lester Foundation Inc based?
Peter Fogliano & Hal Lester Foundation Inc is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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