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South Carolina · Public charity

The Lens Foundation

The mission of THE LENS FOUNDATION is to provide law enforcement with support to strengthen community relations and improve public safety in charleston.

$86k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$35k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$34,974
Largest grant, FY2024
$34,974
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$520k
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$35kCrime & Legal$25k

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2024.

CITY OF CHARLESTON POLICE DEPARTMENT$34,974

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About The Lens Foundation

How much does The Lens Foundation give?
The Lens Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $34,974, out of $85,681 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does The Lens Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (58%), Crime & Legal (42%).
Where is The Lens Foundation based?
The Lens Foundation is based in SC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 1 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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