Nevada · Private foundation
The Cynthia Lake Charitable Trust
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.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $26,615
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $700,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $49M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations The Cynthia Lake Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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 | 21 | $1.3M | 43% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $2.8M | 50% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $762k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $1.5M | 58% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $735k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $357k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $313k | 61% |
| FY2017 | 15 | $194k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alice Lloyd College | $1,610,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Steven Sampson Charitable Fund Inc Co Goossen & Schultz Cpas LLP | $1,235,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Kern County | $435,000 | 7 | 8% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Nashville Steam Preservation Society | $200,000 | 1 | 28% |
| Awaken INC | $128,200 | 4 | 4% |
| Kern County Youth for Christ | $99,100 | 3 | 3% |
| Links for Life | $92,000 | 4 | 13% |
| Illuminations Center for Dyslexia | $87,500 | 3 | 15% |
| Fox Theater Foundation | $77,692 | 2 | 14% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Cynthia Lake Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Kern Community Foundation · The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation · Dignity Health · Greater Horizons · Lazzerini Family Foundation · Amicus Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · Resnick Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Dermody Properties Foundation · Bakersfield West Rotary-Stroope Family Foundation · Diane S Lake Charitable Trust Lake Diane S Ttee
How this is measured
About The Cynthia Lake Charitable Trust
- How much does The Cynthia Lake Charitable Trust give?
- The Cynthia Lake Charitable Trust reported 21 grants totaling $1,348,173 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Cynthia Lake Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (35%), Education (22%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are The Cynthia Lake Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Alice Lloyd College ($1.6M), Steven Sampson Charitable Fund Inc Co Goossen & Schultz Cpas LLP ($1.2M), Court Appointed Special Advocates of Kern County ($435k).
- Does The Cynthia Lake Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Cynthia Lake Charitable Trust 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 The Cynthia Lake Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kern Community Foundation, The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation, Dignity Health.
- Where is The Cynthia Lake Charitable Trust based?
- The Cynthia Lake Charitable Trust is based in NV.
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