Texas · Private foundation
Esping Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $318k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $97,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 10
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Esping Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k 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 | 7 | $318k | 57% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $376k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $405k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $595k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $210k | 80% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $340k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dwell With Dignity Inc | $220,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Lumin Education | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Family Place | $135,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Tackle Tomorrow | $130,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Momentous Institute | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| For Oak Cliff | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Dallas Children's Advocacy Center | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Family Gateway Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Agape Clinic | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Cristo Rey Dallas High School Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dwell With Dignity Inc | $220,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Lumin Education | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Family Place | $135,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Tackle Tomorrow | $130,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Momentous Institute | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| For Oak Cliff | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Dallas Children's Advocacy Center | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Family Gateway Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Agape Clinic | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Cristo Rey Dallas High School Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Southern Gateway Public Green Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| KIPP Texas Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cafe Momentum | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| After-School All-Stars | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Year Up Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ferguson Road Initiative | $40,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Family Compass | $33,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Children's Medical Center Foundation | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mercy Street | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Young Women's Preparatory Network | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Girls Incorporated of Metropolitan Dallas | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Nexus Recovery Center Incorporated | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Methodist Hospitals of Dallas | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dallas Casa | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Magdalen House | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Scholarshot | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($575k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Esping 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 Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Addy Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · The Perot Foundation · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Harry Bass Foundation
How this is measured
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About Esping Family Foundation
- How much does Esping Family Foundation give?
- Esping Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $317,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Esping Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Employment (19%), Health (16%).
- Who are Esping Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Dwell With Dignity Inc ($220k), Lumin Education ($200k), The Family Place ($135k).
- Does Esping Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Esping Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Esping Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dallas Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Hoblitzelle Foundation.
- Where is Esping Family Foundation based?
- Esping Family Foundation is based in TX.
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