Arizona · Private foundation
The Lodestar 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.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 80
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 27
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $131k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations The Lodestar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $424k 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 | 37 | $1.4M | 51% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $1.0M | 56% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $839k | 46% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $772k | 53% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $755k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $766k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seachange Capital Partners Inc | $2,244,472 | 6 | 13% |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | $175,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Arizona Justice Project | $161,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Keep Our Republic Charitable Fund | $160,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Core Foundation | $150,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Valley of the Sun United Way | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Barrow Neurological Foundation | $144,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Civic Ventures Dba Cogenerate | $125,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Contina Impact | $121,000 | 4 | 2% |
| The Brookings Institution | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 86 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($73k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Lodestar Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 73 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Burton Family Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Garcia Family Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · New Venture Fund · Impactassetsinc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · American Express Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Lodestar Foundation
- How much does The Lodestar Foundation give?
- The Lodestar Foundation reported 80 grants totaling $1,782,606 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Lodestar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (32%), Philanthropy (26%), Public Benefit (11%).
- Who are The Lodestar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Seachange Capital Partners Inc ($2.2M), Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University ($175k), Arizona Justice Project ($161k).
- Does The Lodestar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lodestar 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 Lodestar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust, Burton Family Foundation.
- Where is The Lodestar Foundation based?
- The Lodestar Foundation is based in AZ.
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