How much does Forrest Foundation give?

Forrest Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $5,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does Forrest Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (26%), Education (25%), Human Services (12%).

Who are Forrest Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Weekend Snack Sack Program ($16k), Wayland Baptist University ($15k), Literacy Lubbock ($15k).

Does Forrest Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Forrest Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Forrest Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of West Texas, HDS Foundation, Ch Foundation Inc.

Where is Forrest Foundation based?

Forrest Foundation is based in TX.

Foundation Dossiers

Texas · Private foundation

Forrest Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 1
Grants FY2025: 23
Organizations funded FY2024: 61%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $5,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $5,000
Organizations funded a year: 21 to 24; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $500k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 61% of the organizations Forrest Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyEducationOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	1	$5k	100%
FY2024	23	$54k	61%
FY2021	22	$36k	23%
FY2020	23	$37k	4%
FY2019	24	$36k	21%
FY2018	23	$36k	22%
FY2017	21	$33k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$61kEducation$58kHuman Services$28kFood & Nutrition$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kArts & Culture$11kAnimals$10kHealth$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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
Weekend Snack Sack Program	$15,500	6	n/a
Wayland Baptist University	$15,000	6	0%
Literacy Lubbock	$14,500	6	2%
Santa Maria El Mirador	$10,500	6	0%
Southcrest Baptist Church	$10,000	5	n/a
Star of Hope Mission	$5,500	4	0%
Shallowater Education Foundation	$5,000	1	n/a
South Plains Food Bank Inc	$4,000	5	0%
Texas South Plains Honor Flight	$3,600	3	1%
Woodlands Religious Community Inc	$3,000	3	0%

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All grantees of Forrest Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Weekend Snack Sack Program	$15,500	6	n/a
Wayland Baptist University	$15,000	6	0%
Literacy Lubbock	$14,500	6	2%
Santa Maria El Mirador	$10,500	6	0%
Southcrest Baptist Church	$10,000	5	n/a
Star of Hope Mission	$5,500	4	0%
Shallowater Education Foundation	$5,000	1	n/a
South Plains Food Bank Inc	$4,000	5	0%
Texas South Plains Honor Flight	$3,600	3	1%
Woodlands Religious Community Inc	$3,000	3	0%
St Thomas Episcopal School	$2,500	1	n/a
John Wesley Methodist Church	$2,500	1	n/a
Children's Home of Lubbock and Family Service Agency Inc	$2,000	2	0%
Montgomery County Womens Center	$2,000	1	0%
K9s for Warriors Inc	$2,000	1	0%
Cal Farley's Boys Ranch	$2,000	2	0%
Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation	$1,500	1	0%
Villa Therese Catholic Clinic Sisters of Ciincinnati	$1,500	1	n/a
Roosevelt Volunteer Fire Department Inc	$1,500	2	n/a
Eric Marsh Foundation for Wildland Firefighters	$1,500	1	n/a
Wildlife Conservation Society	$1,500	1	0%
Prescott United Methodist Church	$1,500	1	n/a
Slaton Education Foundation Inc	$1,500	1	0%
Alzheimer's Foundation of America Inc	$1,500	1	0%
Tscra Disaster Relief Fund	$1,000	1	0%
Haven Animal Care Inc	$1,000	1	1%
Covenant Health System Foundation	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($122k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Forrest Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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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.

Community Foundation of West TexasTX26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of West Texas · HDS Foundation · Ch Foundation Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mary L Livermore Foundation · Helen Jones Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Forrest Foundation

How much does Forrest Foundation give?: Forrest Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $5,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Forrest Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (26%), Education (25%), Human Services (12%).
Who are Forrest Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Weekend Snack Sack Program ($16k), Wayland Baptist University ($15k), Literacy Lubbock ($15k).
Does Forrest Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Forrest Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Forrest Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of West Texas, HDS Foundation, Ch Foundation Inc.
Where is Forrest Foundation based?: Forrest Foundation is based in TX.