Vermont · Private foundation
The Lionheart Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $161k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $33,403
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations The Lionheart Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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 | 32 | $161k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $137k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $91k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $137k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $303k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $256k | 41% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $148k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $103k | 52% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Vermont Medical Center | $404,213 | 5 | 0% |
| Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund | $101,869 | 5 | 1% |
| Milton Artists Guild Inc | $100,000 | 6 | 31% |
| Landmark College Inc | $57,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Lund Family Center Inc | $41,545 | 5 | 0% |
| Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd | $31,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Shelburne Museum Inc | $22,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Building Burlingtons Future Corporation | $20,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Guatemala Aid Fund Inc | $13,225 | 5 | 12% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $13,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 68 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($428k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Lionheart Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 55 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 Vermont Community Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation · Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau Foundation Inc · Oakland Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Onda Foundation Inc · The Robert Fleming & Jane Howe Patrick Foundation Inc · RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION co THOMAS PHELAN
How this is measured
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About The Lionheart Charitable Trust
- How much does The Lionheart Charitable Trust give?
- The Lionheart Charitable Trust reported 33 grants totaling $161,445 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Lionheart Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (47%), Health (16%), Education (8%).
- Who are The Lionheart Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The University of Vermont Medical Center ($404k), Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund ($102k), Milton Artists Guild Inc ($100k).
- Does The Lionheart Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lionheart Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Lionheart Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc, Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Lionheart Charitable Trust based?
- The Lionheart Charitable Trust is based in VT.
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