Ohio · Private foundation
Thomas & Kelly Lieser Family 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.
- $61k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,080
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,800
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 17
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $454k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Thomas & Kelly Lieser Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 23 | $61k | 61% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $40k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $49k | 53% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $40k | 94% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $7k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xavier University | $40,720 | 5 | 0% |
| Cise | $18,500 | 4 | 0% |
| St Mary School Inc | $17,300 | 2 | n/a |
| De Paul Cristo Rey High School | $16,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Cincinnati Tennis Foundation | $7,175 | 4 | 1% |
| St Xavier High School Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Our Daily Bread | $2,516 | 3 | 0% |
| St Francis Desales | $2,080 | 2 | 1% |
| Community Shares of Greater Cincinnati | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Hope for Haitis Children Inc | $1,792 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xavier University | $40,720 | 5 | 0% |
| Cise | $18,500 | 4 | 0% |
| St Mary School Inc | $17,300 | 2 | n/a |
| De Paul Cristo Rey High School | $16,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Cincinnati Tennis Foundation | $7,175 | 4 | 1% |
| St Xavier High School Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Our Daily Bread | $2,516 | 3 | 0% |
| St Francis Desales | $2,080 | 2 | 1% |
| Community Shares of Greater Cincinnati | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Hope for Haitis Children Inc | $1,792 | 2 | n/a |
| Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| St Marys Church | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Archdiocese of Cincinnati | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friars Club Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Corporation for Findlay Market | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Brandon C Gromada Head & Neck Cancer Foundation Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Pelotonia | $207 | 1 | n/a |
| Girls on the Run of Greater Cincinn | $171 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($77k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Thomas & Kelly Lieser 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: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Bob & Felicia Burger Family Foundation · Williams Foundation · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · The Northern Cincinnai Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
Compare Thomas & Kelly Lieser Family Foundation with peer funders
About Thomas & Kelly Lieser Family Foundation
- How much does Thomas & Kelly Lieser Family Foundation give?
- Thomas & Kelly Lieser Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $61,392 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 17 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Thomas & Kelly Lieser Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Religion (22%), Philanthropy (13%).
- Who are Thomas & Kelly Lieser Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Xavier University ($41k), Cise ($19k), St Mary School Inc ($17k).
- Does Thomas & Kelly Lieser Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thomas & Kelly Lieser Family 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 Thomas & Kelly Lieser Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Ge Aerospace Foundation, Johnson Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Thomas & Kelly Lieser Family Foundation based?
- Thomas & Kelly Lieser Family Foundation is based in OH.
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