New York · Private foundation
The Lake Family 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.
- $78k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 21
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $220k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Lake Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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 | 13 | $78k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $77k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $43k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $34k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $52k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $35k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgetown University | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Greenwich Academy Inc | $26,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Trustees of Westminster School Inc | $17,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Windward School | $16,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Exeter Health Resources Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Society of the Four Arts Inc | $14,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Church of Bethesda by the Sea Inc | $13,250 | 5 | n/a |
| The Taft School Corporation | $13,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc | $6,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Exeter Hospital Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($138k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lake Family 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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About The Lake Family Foundation
- How much does The Lake Family Foundation give?
- The Lake Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $77,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Lake Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Health (11%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are The Lake Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Georgetown University ($40k), Greenwich Academy Inc ($26k), Trustees of Westminster School Inc ($18k).
- Does The Lake Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lake Family 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 Lake Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The Lake Family Foundation based?
- The Lake Family Foundation is based in NY.
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