California · Private foundation
The Lou 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.
- $75k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 58%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $155
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 58% of the organizations The Lou Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $65k | 53% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $36k | 58% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $37k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $8k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $84k | 73% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $26k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $26k | 63% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $16k | 25% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese Junior Golf Foundation | $50,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Chp 11-99 Foundation | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Uc Davis Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Asia Society | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Omniware Networks | $8,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Dui Hua Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The 1990 Institute | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Intersection for the Arts | $1,888 | 1 | 0% |
| Impulse Youth Arts Organizatio | $1,001 | 1 | n/a |
| National Police Association Inc | $785 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese Junior Golf Foundation | $50,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Chp 11-99 Foundation | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Uc Davis Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Asia Society | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Omniware Networks | $8,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Dui Hua Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The 1990 Institute | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Intersection for the Arts | $1,888 | 1 | 0% |
| Impulse Youth Arts Organizatio | $1,001 | 1 | n/a |
| National Police Association Inc | $785 | 1 | 0% |
| JLS Middle School PTA | $670 | 1 | 0% |
| Heart Center Inc | $525 | 1 | n/a |
| Colel Chabad | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| St Josephs Indian School | $310 | 2 | n/a |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Paralyzed Veterans of America | $25 | 1 | 0% |
| Disabled American Veterans | $10 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($171k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lou 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About The Lou Foundation
- How much does The Lou Foundation give?
- The Lou Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $75,061 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Lou Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Education (19%), Recreation & Sports (15%).
- Who are The Lou Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chinese Junior Golf Foundation ($50k), Chp 11-99 Foundation ($40k), The Uc Davis Foundation ($10k).
- Does The Lou Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lou 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 Lou Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Lou Foundation based?
- The Lou Foundation is based in CA.
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