California · Private foundation
The Lampstand 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.
- $164k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 66%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $39,821
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 44
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 66% of the organizations The Lampstand Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k 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 | 37 | $163k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $196k | 66% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $209k | 41% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $566k | 61% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $159k | 71% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $164k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Cambridge School | $515,160 | 2 | 3% |
| Edify | $96,238 | 4 | 0% |
| Luis Palau Association | $92,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Biola University Inc | $70,285 | 4 | 0% |
| Family Research Council | $31,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Plies | $20,412 | 2 | 1% |
| Thornston Educational Fund | $20,010 | 2 | 0% |
| Heartbeat International Inc | $14,967 | 4 | 0% |
| Drpecklegacy | $13,570 | 2 | n/a |
| Wellspring Life Resources Inc | $12,500 | 3 | 5% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($441k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lampstand 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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Oregon Community Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Lampstand Foundation
- How much does The Lampstand Foundation give?
- The Lampstand Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $164,229 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 44 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Lampstand Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (47%), Religion (40%), Human Services (4%).
- Who are The Lampstand Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Cambridge School ($515k), Edify ($96k), Luis Palau Association ($92k).
- Does The Lampstand Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 66% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lampstand 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 Lampstand Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation Inc, M J Murdock Charitable Trust, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
- Where is The Lampstand Foundation based?
- The Lampstand Foundation is based in CA.
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