Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Lida Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $476k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2024
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $96,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 52
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations The Lida Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 21 | $416k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $420k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $476k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $549k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 51 | $429k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Friends of the Wissahickon Inc | $272,500 | 4 | 6% |
| The Wilma Theater | $214,150 | 5 | 2% |
| Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pa | $166,200 | 5 | 0% |
| Opera Philadelphia | $141,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Orchestra Association | $135,700 | 5 | 0% |
| The Pennsylvania Ballet Association | $130,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Balletx | $115,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Womens Way | $80,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Fringearts | $70,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Philadelphia Theatre Company | $50,500 | 5 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($188k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lida 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: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Independence Foundation · Wyncote Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · The Cigna Group Foundation · The University of the Arts · The Shubert Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Lida Foundation
- How much does The Lida Foundation give?
- The Lida Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $475,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 52 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Lida Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (55%), Environment (10%), Philanthropy (10%).
- Who are The Lida Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Friends of the Wissahickon Inc ($273k), The Wilma Theater ($214k), Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pa ($166k).
- Does The Lida Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lida Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Lida Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William Penn Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation, Independence Foundation.
- Where is The Lida Foundation based?
- The Lida Foundation is based in PA.
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