Missouri · Private foundation
Stanley & Lucy Lopata 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.
- $748k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 73
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Stanley & Lucy Lopata Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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 | 44 | $748k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $654k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $680k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $755k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $627k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $409k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 54 | $394k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 73 | $636k | 8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miriam Foundation | $455,000 | 9 | 1% |
| St Louis Area Food Bank Inc | $268,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Services of St Louis | $220,000 | 9 | 1% |
| American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri Foundation | $194,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Project Home | $174,500 | 9 | 0% |
| University City Children's Center | $139,000 | 9 | 17% |
| Travelers Aid Society of Philadelphia | $131,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Beyond Literacy | $130,500 | 9 | 1% |
| City Harvest Inc | $125,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Oasis Institute | $120,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 93 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($927k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Stanley & Lucy Lopata 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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · Jewish Federation of St Louis · Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · World Wide Technology Foundation
How this is measured
About Stanley & Lucy Lopata Foundation
- How much does Stanley & Lucy Lopata Foundation give?
- Stanley & Lucy Lopata Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $748,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 73 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Stanley & Lucy Lopata Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Human Services (21%), Food & Nutrition (16%).
- Who are Stanley & Lucy Lopata Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Miriam Foundation ($455k), St Louis Area Food Bank Inc ($268k), Jewish Family Services of St Louis ($220k).
- Does Stanley & Lucy Lopata Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Stanley & Lucy Lopata 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 Stanley & Lucy Lopata Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, St Louis Community Foundation, Trio Foundation of St Louis.
- Where is Stanley & Lucy Lopata Foundation based?
- Stanley & Lucy Lopata Foundation is based in MO.
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