Wyoming · Private foundation
The Free Lunch Foundation
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.
- $47k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2024
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $16,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 25
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $77k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations The Free Lunch Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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 | 12 | $45k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $15k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $79k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $119k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $181k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $154k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $166k | 48% |
| FY2017 | 25 | $97k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Bird Conservancy | $270,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Ron Burton Training Village Inc | $95,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Alliance for Choice in Education | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance | $55,000 | 3 | n/a |
| National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States | $27,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wichita Collegiate School | $22,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Truro Conservation Trust | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Park City Education Foundation | $20,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Off Square Theatre Company | $17,780 | 8 | 2% |
| Jackson Hole Land Trust | $11,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($188k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Free Lunch 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: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Kenneth and Caroline Taylor Family Foundation · The Brooks Foundation · Perkins Charitable Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Nelson Family Foundation · The Alan J Hirschfield Family Foundation · Robert S & Grayce B Kerr Foundation · Karl M Johnson Foundation · Hughes Charitable Foundation · Hughes Charitable Foundation · Giving Brands
How this is measured
About The Free Lunch Foundation
- How much does The Free Lunch Foundation give?
- The Free Lunch Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $47,350 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Free Lunch Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (30%), Education (13%), Health (11%).
- Who are The Free Lunch Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American Bird Conservancy ($271k), Ron Burton Training Village Inc ($95k), Alliance for Choice in Education ($60k).
- Does The Free Lunch Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Free Lunch 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 The Free Lunch Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, Kenneth and Caroline Taylor Family Foundation, The Brooks Foundation.
- Where is The Free Lunch Foundation based?
- The Free Lunch Foundation is based in WY.
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