Funding search · EIN 520794388 · McLean, VA

The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

138
grants reported
$3.7M
total given
2021–2024
filing years
$10,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20212024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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2 grants matching “predatory · $50,000

  • $25,000

    Wild Entrust International · Sammamish, WA · 2022

    Entrust botswana predatory study

  • $25,000

    Wild Entrust International · Sammamish, WA · 2021

    Entrust botswana predatory study

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

  • National Gallery of Art5 grants · $875,000
  • Georgetown University1 grant · $500,000
  • Washington National Cathedral6 grants · $360,000
  • Society of the Four Arts6 grants · $295,000
  • St Johns Church- Lafayette Sq2 grants · $125,000
  • American Red Cross National Capital Chapter4 grants · $110,000
  • Wild Entrust International4 grants · $100,000
  • Medstar National Rehabilitation Hospital3 grants · $85,000
  • St Albans School6 grants · $85,000
  • Medstar Washington Hospital Center1 grant · $75,000

Giving over time

$619,500
2021
$1.5M
2022
$1.1M
2023
$452,500
2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 138 grants.

  • $700,000

    National Gallery of Art · Landover, MD · 2022

    75th mellon matching fund for the conservation program

  • $500,000

    Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2023

    To create the kalorama endowed fellowship fund for student research in environmental studies/sciences

  • $200,000

    Washington National Cathedral · Washington, DC · 2022

    Capital campaign's endowment for the nave

  • $150,000

    Society of the Four Arts · Palm Beach, FL · 2024

    Capital campaign support

  • $100,000

    Society of the Four Arts · Palm Beach, FL · 2023

    Upocming capital campaign support

  • $100,000

    St Johns Church- Lafayette Sq · Washington, DC · 2023

    Repair and restoration of the steeple and spire

  • $100,000

    National Gallery of Art · Landover, MD · 2021

    75th mellon matching fund for the conservation program

  • $75,000

    Medstar Washington Hospital Center · Washington, DC · 2023

    Support of the gusom/medstar summer scholars program for medical students

  • $60,000

    Washington National Cathedral · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating expenses

  • $50,000

    Alibi Preservation Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024

    Operating expenses

  • $50,000

    Wadsworth Sulgrave Historic Preservation Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024

    Repair/ restoration house & grounds

  • $50,000

    American Red Cross National Capital Chapter · Fairfax, VA · 2022

    General operating expenses

  • $50,000

    Medstar National Rehabilitation Hospital · Washington, DC · 2022

    Cardiac ct/mr fellowship

  • $50,000

    Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation · Santa Barbara, CA · 2022

    Programs to improve patient care

  • $50,000

    Baylor School · Chattanooga, TN · 2021

    Herbie oakes class of '64 memorial

  • $50,000

    Boys and Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County · West Palm Beach, FL · 2021

    Grant in support of the april gala

  • $50,000

    Medstar Washington Hospital Center Medstar Heart and Vascular Institute · Washington, DC · 2021

    Cardiac ct/mr fellowship

  • $35,000

    Green Horizon Land Trust · Lake Wales, FL · 2024

    Marketing & additional signage for ghlt properties

  • $30,000

    Washington National Cathedral · Washington, DC · 2023

    Dean's council program annual fund for comign year 2024-2025

  • $30,000

    Washington National Cathedral · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating expenses

  • $30,000

    Washington National Cathedral · Washington, DC · 2021

    Dean's program for the annual fund

  • $25,000

    National Gallery of Art · Landover, MD · 2024

    Director's circle

  • $25,000

    Wild Entrust International · Bainbridge Island, WA · 2024

    C4c support botswana

  • $25,000

    Bok Tower Gardens Foundation · Lake Wales, FL · 2023

    Preservation and restoration of the tower, koi pond and the olmstead gardens

  • $25,000

    Center for Strategic & Intl Studies · Washington, DC · 2023

    General operating expenses for work national security and u.s./china relations

  • $25,000

    George Washington University · Washington, DC · 2023

    Support of the blood pressure devise program

  • $25,000

    National Gallery of Art · Landover, MD · 2023

    Director's circle support

  • $25,000

    St Johns Church- Lafayette Sq · Washington, DC · 2023

    Annual giving campaign support

  • $25,000

    Wild Entrust International · Bambridge Island, WA · 2023

    C4c support in botswana

  • $25,000

    American Red Cross National Capital Chapter · Fairfax, VA · 2022

    General operating expenses

  • $25,000

    Friends of Pleasant Grove · McLean, VA · 2022

    Upkeep and renovations

  • $25,000

    Medstar National Rehabilitation Hospital · Washington, DC · 2022

    Advanced heart disease prevention center

  • $25,000

    National Gallery of Art · Landover, MD · 2022

    75th mellon matching fund for the conservation program

  • $25,000

    Regents of University of California · Oakland, CA · 2022

    General operating expenses

  • $25,000

    St Paul'S Rock Creek Parish · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating expenses

  • $25,000

    Wild Entrust International · Sammamish, WA · 2022

    Entrust botswana predatory study

  • $25,000

    American Red Cross National Capital Chapter · Fairfax, VA · 2021

    General operating expenses

  • $25,000

    George Washington University Heart and Vascular Institute · Washington, DC · 2021

    Project for blood pressure devices

  • $25,000

    Icivics · Cambridge, MA · 2021

    General operating expenses

  • $25,000

    Wild Entrust International · Sammamish, WA · 2021

    Entrust botswana predatory study

  • $20,000

    St Albans School · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating expenses

  • $20,000

    The Frick Collection · New York, NY · 2021

    Garden and conservation programs

  • $16,500

    Federal City Council · Washington, DC · 2024

    General operating expenses

  • $15,000

    Peabody Essex Museum · Salem, MA · 2024

    Marine hall reinstallation project

  • $15,000

    St Albans School · Washington, DC · 2024

    Annual giving

  • $15,000

    Winter Haven Hospital Foundation · Winter Haven, FL · 2024

    Psychiatry

  • $15,000

    Esplanade Association · Boston, MA · 2023

    Support of the charlesbank project

  • $15,000

    Federal City Council · Washington, DC · 2023

    General operating expenses

  • $15,000

    Peabody Essex Museum · Salem, MA · 2023

    Support of exhibit on loan from the phoebus fdn wunderkammer and kunstkammer aspects of the exhibit

  • $15,000

    St Albans School · Washington, DC · 2023

    Annual giving program for academic year 2023 - 2024

  • $15,000

    Federal City Council · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating expenses

  • $15,000

    Green Horizon Land Trust · Lake Wales, FL · 2022

    General operating expenses

  • $15,000

    Historic Colony House · Arlington, VA · 2022

    Programs on tv and classical radio

  • $15,000

    Society of the Four Arts · Palm Beach, FL · 2022

    General operating expenses

  • $15,000

    St Albans School · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating expenses

  • $15,000

    Center for Strategic & International Studies · Washington, DC · 2021

    General operating expense

  • $15,000

    Federal City Council · Washington, DC · 2021

    General operating expenses

  • $15,000

    Peabody Essex Museum · Salem, MA · 2021

    Exhibit/publication on the power and perspective, early photography of china

  • $10,000

    Falls Church Arts · Falls Church, VA · 2024

    General operating expense

  • $10,000

    Historic Colony House · Lake Wales, FL · 2024

    Support approved building upgrades historic property

  • $10,000

    Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation · Santa Barbara, CA · 2024

    Programs to improve patient care

  • $10,000

    American Foreign Policy Council'S Central Asia-Caucasus Inst · Washington, DC · 2023

    Central asia-caucasus institute supprot of the chairman's discretionary fund

  • $10,000

    Edith Wharton Restoration Foundation · Lenox, MA · 2023

    General operating expenses

  • $10,000

    Historic Colony House · Lake Wales, FL · 2023

    Support of registered historic property in lake wales, fl for replacement of the windows

  • $10,000

    John R Kennedy Center for Performing Arts · Washington, DC · 2023

    Support of the opera and american ballet theatre's ballet program

  • $10,000

    St Albans School · Washington, DC · 2023

    In memory of james "jim" hanson lemon, jr.

  • $10,000

    Trustees of Reservations · Boston, MA · 2023

    Support public gardens brochure and living collections on-line catalog

  • $10,000

    Amherst College'S Folger Shakespeare Library · Amherst, MA · 2022

    General operating expenses

  • $10,000

    Izzit Org · Erie, PA · 2022

    General operating expenses

  • $10,000

    National Trust for Scotland North America Foundation · Boston, MA · 2022

    General operating expenses

  • $10,000

    Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach · Palm Beach, FL · 2022

    General operating expenses

  • $10,000

    Society of the Four Arts · Palm Beach, FL · 2022

    General operating expenses

  • $10,000

    St Albans School · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating expenses

  • $10,000

    American Foreign Policy Council · Washington, DC · 2021

    Chairman's discretionary fund

  • $10,000

    American Red Cross · Fairfax, VA · 2021

    Humanitarian assistance for ukranian refugees

  • $10,000

    American Red Cross National Capital Chapter · Fairfax, VA · 2021

    General operating expenses

  • $10,000

    Folger Shakespeare Library Amherst College Trustees · Washington, DC · 2021

    Director's circle

  • $10,000

    Folger Shakespeare Library Amherst College Trustees · Washington, DC · 2021

    Grant in support of the 2022 gala

  • $10,000

    Greater Washington Telecommunications Association (Weta) · Arlington, VA · 2021

    Programs on tv and classical radio

  • $10,000

    Harvard College President and Fellows · Cambridge, MA · 2021

    Department of history in support of research efforts of dr. Andrew gordan

  • $10,000

    John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts · Washington, DC · 2021

    Ballet program - abt ballet program

  • $10,000

    Medstar National Rehabilitation Hospital · Washington, DC · 2021

    National rehabilitation network , good work in the greater washington area progra

  • $10,000

    Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach · Palm Beach, FL · 2021

    General operating expenses

  • $10,000

    Society of the Four Arts · Palm Beach, FL · 2021

    Project to purchase the sculpture titled ""spade"" by michael craig-martin

  • $10,000

    Society of the Four Arts · Palm Beach, FL · 2021

    Speaker program and the hulitar garden

  • $10,000

    Washington National Cathedral · Washington, DC · 2021

    Flower guild program

  • $7,500

    Common Good · Washington, DC · 2023

    General operating expenses

  • $7,500

    Georgetown Univesity · Washington, DC · 2022

    General operating expenses

  • $7,500

    Historic Colony House · Lake Wales, FL · 2022

    Preservation program support

  • $7,500

    Trustees of Reservations · Boston, MA · 2022

    General operating expenses

  • $5,000

    American Foreign Policy Council'S Central Asia-Caucasus Inst · Washington, DC · 2024

    Chairman's discretionary fund support

  • $5,000

    Bath & Tennis Historic Building Preservation Foundation · Palm Beach, FL · 2024

    General operating expenses

  • $5,000

    Charities Aid Foundation America · Alexandria, VA · 2024

    Voltaire studio

  • $5,000

    McLean Project for the Arts · McLean, VA · 2024

    Education program

  • $5,000

    University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2024

    Children's hospital

  • $5,000

    Bath & Tennis Historic Building Preservation Foundation · Palm Beach, FL · 2023

    General operating expenses

  • $5,000

    Dulin United Methodist Church · Washington, DC · 2023

    General operating expense

  • $5,000

    Falls Church Arts · Falls Church, VA · 2023

    General operating expense

  • $5,000

    McLean Project for the Arts · McLean, VA · 2023

    Support of the education program

  • $5,000

    Metropolitan Club Preservation Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023

    Preservation program support

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