Florida · Private foundation
The Lyden Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $575,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 8
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations The Lyden Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 11 | $1.1M | 45% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $605k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $251k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $259k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $264k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $174k | 63% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $159k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rollins College | $1,887,130 | 7 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc | $55,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Chesterton Academy of Orlando Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Christian Brothers Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Conductive Education Center of Orlando Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Trinity Schools Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bishop Moore Catholic High School | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($803k), not named here.
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Lyden Foundation Inc
- How much does The Lyden Foundation Inc give?
- The Lyden Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $1,110,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Lyden Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (96%), Food & Nutrition (2%), Health (1%).
- Who are The Lyden Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Rollins College ($1.9M), Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc ($55k), Chesterton Academy of Orlando Inc ($25k).
- Does The Lyden Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lyden Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Lyden Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is The Lyden Foundation Inc based?
- The Lyden Foundation Inc is based in FL.
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