California · Private foundation
The Lester Family 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.
- $105k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 21
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $659k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Lester Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 2 | $105k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $236k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $1.2M | 100% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $2.1M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $2.1M | 75% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $492k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stand Together Foundation | $1,500,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy | $335,348 | 1 | 1% |
| Youth Entrepreneurs Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 6% |
| The Seminar Network Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sacred Heart Church | $204,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Sonoma Valley Hospital Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Sacred Heart School | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Schools of the Sacred Heart-San Francisco | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Heart Association Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lester Family 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: Marin Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · McNabb Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Orange County Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
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About The Lester Family Foundation
- How much does The Lester Family Foundation give?
- The Lester Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $105,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 21 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Lester Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (45%), Public Benefit (24%), Education (13%).
- Who are The Lester Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Stand Together Foundation ($1.5M), Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy ($335k), Youth Entrepreneurs Inc ($250k).
- Does The Lester Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lester Family 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 Lester Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is The Lester Family Foundation based?
- The Lester Family Foundation is based in CA.
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