Mary Lou Lemon Foundation
EIN 46-1637247 · files IRS 990-PF
Where it gives
By cause and by place, from its own returns.
By cause
The cause each recipient registered with the IRS
Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.
By place
Dollars received, by the recipient's state
half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%
Grants abroad and place not on file: 35 grants · $886.9k
Who it funds most
6 of its 18 grantees were funded in more than one year.
Mary Lou Lemon Foundation's own IRS 990-PF returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 18 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.
Its board and officers
From its latest return.
Form 990PF Part VIII, tax year 2024, filing 202522879349100237
Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.
Its money
What it gave, held and paid, by year.
Giving by year
A year with no bar has no grants on file yet: its returns may not be loaded. It is not a year without giving.
Its returns8 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | IRS 990-PF | 202632319349100668 | IRS batch file |
| 2024 | IRS 990-PF | 202522879349100237 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS 990-PF | 202402899349101525 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS 990-PF | 202332269349100033 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS 990-PF | 202211259349101686 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS 990-PF | 202130619349101003 | IRS batch file |
| 2019 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202031719349100513 | IRS batch file |
| 2018 | IRS 990-PF | 201911659349100416 | IRS batch file |
An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.
The record as filedEvery table this page has always shown, in full.open
Mary Lou Lemon Foundation made 62 grants across 2018–2025, totalling $1.1m as filed.
- Grants
- 62
- Total, as filed
- $1.1m
- Years
- 2018–2025
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| CHURCH OF THE OPEN ARMS | 6 | $608.9k |
| KGOU | 3 | $110.5k |
| ELECTED OFFICIALS TO PROTECT AMERICA | 2 | $35.0k |
| THE OKLAHOMA OBSERVER DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION | 1 | $31.0k |
| VOICE EDUCATION FUND | 4 | $26.5k |
| UNIVERSITY PLACE CHRISTIAN CHURCH | 2 | $21.0k |
| THE PEACE HOUSE | 3 | $20.5k |
| AMERICAN POPS ORCHESTRA | 1 | $20.0k |
| BIOGAS RESEARCHERS INC | 1 | $20.0k |
| COULD YOU | 2 | $20.0k |
| DONA ANA VILLAGE ASSOCIATION | 1 | $20.0k |
| THE AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT | 1 | $20.0k |
| SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS | 1 | $15.0k |
| MUSEUM OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE | 2 | $13.0k |
| THE PVBLIC FOUNDATION | 1 | $12.5k |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 12 | $40.2k |
| 2020 | 2 | $1.1k |
| 2021 | 3 | $21.5k |
| 2022 | 13 | $255.2k |
| 2023 | 10 | $98.5k |
| 2024 | 13 | $109.1k |
| 2025 | 9 | $593.7k |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-461637247. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.
What this page does not know
- Wrong if: a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures.
- What they say they exist to do
- What each grant was for
- What they fund, by theme
- Balance sheet and financials
- Who runs it
- Whether they accept proposals
- Their own record on the register
- No website on file
- Leadership not yet identified