Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Richard Lounsbery Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 56
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 69%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 48 to 59
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $22M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 69% of the organizations Richard Lounsbery Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M 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 | 50 | $3.7M | 68% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $3.8M | 69% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $3.7M | 71% |
| FY2022 | 53 | $3.5M | 79% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $3.5M | 86% |
| FY2020 | 59 | $3.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Academy of Sciences | $1,632,049 | 6 | 0% |
| Biobus Inc | $507,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress | $500,497 | 4 | 13% |
| Yale University | $421,395 | 3 | n/a |
| American Philosophical Society | $399,300 | 1 | 2% |
| Albertine Foundation | $345,000 | 3 | 3% |
| American Museum of Natural History | $333,013 | 2 | 0% |
| Seti Institute | $299,699 | 2 | 1% |
| Internet Archive | $260,000 | 3 | 1% |
| New York University | $257,736 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 122 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 124 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Richard Lounsbery Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 102 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Carnegie Corporation of New York · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Alfred P Sloan Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ford Foundation · The Simons Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Pinkerton Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Johns Hopkins University
How this is measured
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About Richard Lounsbery Foundation Inc
- How much does Richard Lounsbery Foundation Inc give?
- Richard Lounsbery Foundation Inc reported 56 grants totaling $3,784,399 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 59 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Richard Lounsbery Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (37%), Arts & Culture (19%), Education (15%).
- Who are Richard Lounsbery Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: National Academy of Sciences ($1.6M), Biobus Inc ($507k), Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress ($500k).
- Does Richard Lounsbery Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Richard Lounsbery Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Richard Lounsbery Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Carnegie Corporation of New York, Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation, Alfred P Sloan Foundation.
- Where is Richard Lounsbery Foundation Inc based?
- Richard Lounsbery Foundation Inc is based in DC.
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