Colorado · Private foundation
The Lamp Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $105k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,585
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 13
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $590k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations The Lamp Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $105k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $101k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $98k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $89k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $101k | 77% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $55k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $52k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resourcing Christian Education International | $137,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Teachbeyond Inc | $31,725 | 2 | n/a |
| International Anglican Church | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Great Cities Missions | $8,709 | 2 | n/a |
| Train International | $2,495 | 1 | 1% |
| A & M Church of Christ | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Hills Church of Christ | $2,000 | 3 | n/a |
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($397k), not named here.
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Lamp Foundation
- How much does The Lamp Foundation give?
- The Lamp Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $105,354 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 13 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Lamp Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (59%), Education (40%), Human Services (0%).
- Who are The Lamp Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Resourcing Christian Education International ($138k), Teachbeyond Inc ($32k), International Anglican Church ($20k).
- Does The Lamp Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lamp Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Lamp Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation Inc, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, American Endowment Foundation.
- Where is The Lamp Foundation based?
- The Lamp Foundation is based in CO.
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