Vermont · Private foundation
The Sid and Cecelia Lance Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $120k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 64%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 11
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 64% of the organizations The Sid and Cecelia Lance Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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 | 9 | $120k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $89k | 64% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $43k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $18k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partners in Adventure Inc | $54,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Studio Place Arts Inc | $44,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| King Street Center Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Brown Public Library | $16,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Sara M Holbrook Community Center Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Children's Literacy Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Justice and Mercy International | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Warrior Foundation Freedom Station | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Sun City Firefighters Charities Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partners in Adventure Inc | $54,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Studio Place Arts Inc | $44,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| King Street Center Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Brown Public Library | $16,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Sara M Holbrook Community Center Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Children's Literacy Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Justice and Mercy International | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Warrior Foundation Freedom Station | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Sun City Firefighters Charities Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kinhaven Music School Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ocean Institute | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($90k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sid and Cecelia Lance Family 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: National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Kelsey Trust · George W Mergens Foundation · Vermont Afterschool Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Sid and Cecelia Lance Family Foundation with peer funders
About The Sid and Cecelia Lance Family Foundation
- How much does The Sid and Cecelia Lance Family Foundation give?
- The Sid and Cecelia Lance Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $120,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Sid and Cecelia Lance Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (26%), Youth Development (21%), Health (19%).
- Who are The Sid and Cecelia Lance Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Partners in Adventure Inc ($54k), Studio Place Arts Inc ($44k), Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc ($20k).
- Does The Sid and Cecelia Lance Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sid and Cecelia Lance Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Sid and Cecelia Lance Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc, The Vermont Community Foundation, Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Sid and Cecelia Lance Family Foundation based?
- The Sid and Cecelia Lance Family Foundation is based in VT.
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