Texas · Private foundation
First Federal Community Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $144k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations First Federal Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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 | 24 | $139k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $227k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $133k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $185k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $166k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $136k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $108k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $141k | 44% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The United Way Inc | $156,531 | 8 | 1% |
| Preserving Historic Properties Inc | $130,000 | 4 | 33% |
| Red River Valley Veterans' Memorial Museum Inc | $110,000 | 8 | 15% |
| Paris Community Theater | $60,000 | 2 | 17% |
| Red River Valley Down Syndrome Society | $33,750 | 5 | 4% |
| Lamar County Historical Society Inc | $32,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Northeast Texas Trail Coalition | $25,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Titus County Cares Inc Dba Titus County Cares | $22,250 | 9 | 1% |
| Project Deport | $18,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Paris Evergreen Cemetery Foundation Inc | $15,604 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 27 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The United Way Inc | $156,531 | 8 | 1% |
| Preserving Historic Properties Inc | $130,000 | 4 | 33% |
| Red River Valley Veterans' Memorial Museum Inc | $110,000 | 8 | 15% |
| Paris Community Theater | $60,000 | 2 | 17% |
| Red River Valley Down Syndrome Society | $33,750 | 5 | 4% |
| Lamar County Historical Society Inc | $32,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Northeast Texas Trail Coalition | $25,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Titus County Cares Inc Dba Titus County Cares | $22,250 | 9 | 1% |
| Project Deport | $18,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Paris Evergreen Cemetery Foundation Inc | $15,604 | 2 | n/a |
| CitySquare Paris | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Hope Ministries of Northeast Texas | $14,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Red River County Historical Society | $13,500 | 4 | 5% |
| Clarksville Food Pantry Inc | $13,375 | 6 | 5% |
| Texas Bankers Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Hub Community Center | $8,500 | 5 | 5% |
| Lamar County Genealigical Society | $7,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Texas Ramp Project | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lamar County Humane Association | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Paris Education Foundation | $4,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Red River County Humane Society | $4,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Friends of Clarksville Mainstreet Inc | $2,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Abandoned Black Cemetery Association | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Texas Historical Commission | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Belmont University | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bogata Food Pantry | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Judds Pay It Forward Picnic | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($663k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
First Federal Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 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: Ram Foundation · Patterson Troike Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare First Federal Community Foundation with peer funders
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About First Federal Community Foundation
- How much does First Federal Community Foundation give?
- First Federal Community Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $144,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does First Federal Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (28%), Education (14%), Philanthropy (13%).
- Who are First Federal Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The United Way Inc ($157k), Preserving Historic Properties Inc ($130k), Red River Valley Veterans' Memorial Museum Inc ($110k).
- Does First Federal Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does First Federal Community Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as First Federal Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ram Foundation, Patterson Troike Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is First Federal Community Foundation based?
- First Federal Community Foundation is based in TX.
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