California · Private foundation
Whittier Lions Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $135k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 58
- Grants FY2025
- 64
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 77%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $550
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $44,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 65
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 77% of the organizations Whittier Lions Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 80% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k 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 | 58 | $135k | 78% |
| FY2024 | 64 | $191k | 77% |
| FY2023 | 65 | $153k | 83% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $150k | 92% |
| FY2021 | 53 | $179k | 92% |
| FY2020 | 51 | $81k | 84% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $62k | 72% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $138k | 83% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interfaith Food Center | $21,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Whittier Public Library Foundation | $20,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Academy of Music for the Blind | $19,503 | 7 | 2% |
| California Lion Friends in Sight | $5,385 | 5 | 1% |
| Whittier Area Literacy Council | $4,984 | 2 | 4% |
| YMCA of Greater Whittier | $3,100 | 2 | 0% |
| Capc Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Saint Matthias Church | $2,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Club of Whittier Inc | $2,150 | 2 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Centers for Alcohol and Drug Abuse | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interfaith Food Center | $21,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Whittier Public Library Foundation | $20,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Academy of Music for the Blind | $19,503 | 7 | 2% |
| California Lion Friends in Sight | $5,385 | 5 | 1% |
| Whittier Area Literacy Council | $4,984 | 2 | 4% |
| YMCA of Greater Whittier | $3,100 | 2 | 0% |
| Capc Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Saint Matthias Church | $2,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Club of Whittier Inc | $2,150 | 2 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Centers for Alcohol and Drug Abuse | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| PIH Health Foundation | $1,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Wayfinder Family Services | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Canine Companions for Independence Inc | $1,300 | 4 | 0% |
| City of Whittier | $1,230 | 4 | n/a |
| Happy Camper Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 37% |
| California High School EU Boosters Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Chorale Bel Canto | $750 | 3 | 0% |
| Whittier Hearing Angel Foundation | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 355 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Whittier Lions Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Gene & Elaine Allen Foundation · BCM Foundation · PIH Health Whittier Hospital · Credit Union of Southern California · California Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Whittier Lions Foundation
- How much does Whittier Lions Foundation give?
- Whittier Lions Foundation reported 58 grants totaling $134,794 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 65 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Whittier Lions Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (10%), Human Services (8%), International (7%).
- Who are Whittier Lions Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Interfaith Food Center ($21k), Whittier Public Library Foundation ($20k), Academy of Music for the Blind ($20k).
- Does Whittier Lions Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 77% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Whittier Lions Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Whittier Lions Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Gene & Elaine Allen Foundation, BCM Foundation, PIH Health Whittier Hospital.
- Where is Whittier Lions Foundation based?
- Whittier Lions Foundation is based in CA.
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