Delaware · Private foundation
The Slemp Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 263
- Grants FY2025
- 133
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 70%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $275,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 133
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $29M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 70% of the organizations The Slemp Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 72% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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 | 244 | $1.2M | 66% |
| FY2024 | 133 | $1.4M | 70% |
| FY2023 | 128 | $1.5M | 95% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $274k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $771k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pro Art Association | $368,000 | 4 | 30% |
| The University of Virginia's College at Wise Foundation Inc | $340,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Mountain Empire Community College Foundation Inc | $210,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Friends of the Southwest Virginia Museum Inc | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| William King Museum of Art | $139,700 | 4 | 4% |
| Lonesome Pine Arts & Crafts Inc | $111,169 | 3 | 45% |
| Symphony of the Mountains | $105,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Stickleyville Volunteer Fire Dept | $101,600 | 1 | 51% |
| Mountain Empire Older Citizens Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Mountain Empire Community College | $95,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 370 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Slemp Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 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 Genan Foundation · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Richard & Leslie Gilliam Foundation · Food City Charitable Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Slemp Foundation
- How much does The Slemp Foundation give?
- The Slemp Foundation reported 263 grants totaling $1,312,584 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 133 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Slemp Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Arts & Culture (29%), Human Services (2%).
- Who are The Slemp Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Pro Art Association ($368k), The University of Virginia's College at Wise Foundation Inc ($340k), Mountain Empire Community College Foundation Inc ($210k).
- Does The Slemp Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 70% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Slemp Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Slemp Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Genan Foundation, LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc, The Richard & Leslie Gilliam Foundation.
- Where is The Slemp Foundation based?
- The Slemp Foundation is based in DE.
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