Texas · Private foundation
Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $945k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 50
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $234k 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 | 40 | $945k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $778k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $1.1M | 44% |
| FY2022 | 50 | $1.1M | 48% |
| FY2021 | 46 | $839k | 46% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $882k | 64% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $788k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Worth Opera Association Inc | $725,000 | 7 | 7% |
| The Presbyterian Night Shelter of Tarrant County | $375,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Seagle Music Colony Inc D/B/A Seagle Festival | $185,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Children First Inc | $160,000 | 4 | 10% |
| Hope Farm Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Men of Nehemiah Inc | $105,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Fort Worth Museum of Science and History | $105,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Santa Fe Opera | $100,000 | 7 | 0% |
| AIDS Outreach Center | $96,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Allen Community Outreach | $75,605 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 134 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($688k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 120 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.
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How this is measured
About Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc
- How much does Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc give?
- Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc reported 40 grants totaling $945,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 50 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (30%), Arts & Culture (21%), Health (12%).
- Who are Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Fort Worth Opera Association Inc ($725k), The Presbyterian Night Shelter of Tarrant County ($375k), Seagle Music Colony Inc D/B/A Seagle Festival ($185k).
- Does Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include W P & Bulah Luse Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Dallas Foundation.
- Where is Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc based?
- Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc is based in TX.
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