Texas · Private foundation
Cloyde and Ethel Lee Tracy Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $135k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Cloyde and Ethel Lee Tracy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 | 11 | $135k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $145k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $149k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $146k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $137k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $154k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $124k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $121k | 33% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victoria College Foundation Inc | $56,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Christ's Kitchen | $54,900 | 9 | 3% |
| Hospice of South Texas Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Community Food Bank of Victoria Dba Food Bank of the Golden Crescent | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Houston | $25,000 | 8 | n/a |
| St Joseph Schools Inc | $24,025 | 2 | n/a |
| Childrens Discovery Museum Inc | $21,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Schreiner University | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Victoria Fine Arts Association Inc | $16,000 | 8 | 16% |
| South Texas Zoological Society | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victoria College Foundation Inc | $56,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Christ's Kitchen | $54,900 | 9 | 3% |
| Hospice of South Texas Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Community Food Bank of Victoria Dba Food Bank of the Golden Crescent | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Houston | $25,000 | 8 | n/a |
| St Joseph Schools Inc | $24,025 | 2 | n/a |
| Childrens Discovery Museum Inc | $21,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Schreiner University | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Victoria Fine Arts Association Inc | $16,000 | 8 | 16% |
| South Texas Zoological Society | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| First United Methodist Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hope of South Texas Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Golden Crescent Habitat for Humanity | $2,600 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($903k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cloyde and Ethel Lee Tracy 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.
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How this is measured
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About Cloyde and Ethel Lee Tracy Foundation
- How much does Cloyde and Ethel Lee Tracy Foundation give?
- Cloyde and Ethel Lee Tracy Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $134,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cloyde and Ethel Lee Tracy Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (41%), Education (31%), Food & Nutrition (7%).
- Who are Cloyde and Ethel Lee Tracy Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Victoria College Foundation Inc ($56k), Christ's Kitchen ($55k), Hospice of South Texas Inc ($50k).
- Does Cloyde and Ethel Lee Tracy Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cloyde and Ethel Lee Tracy Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cloyde and Ethel Lee Tracy Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The O'Connor & Hewitt Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Wood Family Memorial Trust.
- Where is Cloyde and Ethel Lee Tracy Foundation based?
- Cloyde and Ethel Lee Tracy Foundation is based in TX.
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