· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k61 grants · $140k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $310k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St. Albans School-The Little Sanctuary | $100,000 |
| Princeton University Annual Giving | $50,000 |
| St. Albans School-The Little Sanctuary | $50,000 |
| Children's Hospital Foundation Attn: Shelley Cooke-Dog Program | $50,000 |
| St. Albans School-The Little Sanctuary | $50,000 |
| Mount Vernon Ladies Association | $50,000 |
| Mount Vernon Ladies Association | $50,000 |
| Children's Hospital Foundation of Philadelphia | $25,000 |
| Foxhall Foundation | $25,000 |
| Trustees of Hamilton College | $20,000 |
| Washington and Lee University Sydney Lewis Hall #420 | $20,000 |
| Sibley Mem. Hosp.Found/Johns Hopkins Med. | $20,000 |
| Trustees of Hamilton College-AG | $20,000 |
| Princeton University Annual Giving | $10,000 |
| St. Albans School Annual Giving | $10,000 |
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
75 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $219k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $100k · revenue +43%
TRINITY COLLEGE2× · 2021–2022 · $100k · revenue +13%
Washington and Lee University2× · 2021–2022 · $40k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- HPHigh Point Universistyone grant, 2022 · $40k
- WAWashington and Lee University Law Alumni Scholarship Fundone grant, 2022 · $20k
- RSRock Spring Garden Clubone grant, 2021 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
How this is measured
41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 122 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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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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