Louisiana · Private foundation
Grayson Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $26,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $550,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $40M
- 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 Grayson Foundation Inc 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; $75k 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 | 34 | $2.1M | 12% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $1.4M | 8% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $1.7M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $1.9M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $1.3M | 19% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $1.5M | 14% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $1.6M | 10% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $1.0M | 52% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holy Angels Residential Facility I | $1,350,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Centenary College of Louisiana | $650,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Gingerbread House Bossiercaddo Children's Advocacy Center Inc | $472,000 | 9 | 8% |
| Providence House | $430,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Catholic Charities of North Louisiana | $353,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Volunteers for Youth Justice | $328,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Martin Luther King Health Center Dba Mlk Health Center & Pharmacy | $300,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Northwest Louisiana Food Bank | $256,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Lsu in Shreveport Foundation Inc | $255,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Christian Service Program Institute | $222,000 | 7 | 10% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Grayson Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 51 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: Community Foundation of North Louisiana · Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation · The Powers Foundation Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · United Way of Northwest Louisiana · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · The Crow Foundation · Willis-Knighton Medical Center · H E Storer Charitable Foundation · Wheless Foundation · The Alta and John Franks Foundation · The Nelson Foundation
How this is measured
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About Grayson Foundation Inc
- How much does Grayson Foundation Inc give?
- Grayson Foundation Inc reported 34 grants totaling $2,091,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Grayson Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (22%), Health (17%), Philanthropy (13%).
- Who are Grayson Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Holy Angels Residential Facility I ($1.4M), Centenary College of Louisiana ($650k), Gingerbread House Bossiercaddo Children's Advocacy Center Inc ($472k).
- Does Grayson Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Grayson Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Grayson Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of North Louisiana, Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation, The Powers Foundation Inc.
- Where is Grayson Foundation Inc based?
- Grayson Foundation Inc is based in LA.
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