Virginia · Private foundation
The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund
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.
- $453k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 41
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $257k 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 | 18 | $448k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $1.1M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $1.7M | 42% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $620k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $6.1M | 28% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $2.0M | 39% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $5.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Gallery of Art | $13,041,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the D of C | $858,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Georgetown University | $507,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The Society of the Four Arts Inc | $341,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Wild Entrust International | $255,000 | 7 | 17% |
| Peabody Essex Museum Inc | $180,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Federal City Council | $106,500 | 7 | 1% |
| The Brookings Institution | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Center for Strategic and International Studies | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| National Rehabilitation Hospital | $85,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 66 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund 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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Thomas Rutherfoord Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Lemon Foundation · Frederick Henry & Diana Prince Foundation · Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc
How this is measured
About The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund
- How much does The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund give?
- The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund reported 19 grants totaling $452,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 41 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (79%), Religion (5%), Education (5%).
- Who are The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: National Gallery of Art ($13M), Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the D of C ($858k), Georgetown University ($508k).
- Does The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund 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 Lee and Juliet Folger Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Thomas Rutherfoord Foundation.
- Where is The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund based?
- The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund is based in VA.
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