Virginia · Private foundation
The Lemon 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.
- $921k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 92
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 83
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Itemized, FY2024
- $850k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 79 to 83
- FY2021 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $18M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 17% of the organizations The Lemon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 80 | $830k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 83 | $845k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 79 | $436k | 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, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Hospital Foundation | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Trinity College | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Foxhall Foundation | $80,000 | 3 | 21% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $80,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Washington and Lee University | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Gallery of Art | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Washington Hospital Center Corporation | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $18,000 | 3 | 0% |
| 1000 Friends of Florida Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 80 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lemon 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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Lemon Foundation
- How much does The Lemon Foundation give?
- The Lemon Foundation reported 92 itemized grants totaling $850,022, out of $920,522 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 79 and 83 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2022.
- What does The Lemon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (18%), Health (9%), Recreation & Sports (4%).
- Who are The Lemon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Children's Hospital Foundation ($100k), Trinity College ($100k), Foxhall Foundation ($80k).
- Does The Lemon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lemon 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 Lemon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, Clark-Winchcole Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.
- Where is The Lemon Foundation based?
- The Lemon Foundation is based in VA.
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