Texas · Private foundation
Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust
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.
- $670k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 49
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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 | 41 | $670k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $594k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $625k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $656k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $576k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $523k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 44 | $523k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 49 | $521k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newday Services for Children and Families | $246,700 | 9 | 3% |
| Young Life | $232,875 | 7 | 0% |
| Kids' Meals Inc | $221,000 | 9 | 1% |
| SpringSpirit Inc | $203,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Texas Children's Hospital | $160,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Bynum School | $137,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Spring Branch Education Foundation | $133,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc | $120,000 | 3 | 2% |
| The W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation | $105,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Bo's Place | $98,000 | 8 | 1% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($959k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust 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: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Brown Foundation Inc · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Elkins Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc · Houston Endowment Inc · The John M O'Quinn Foundation
How this is measured
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About Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust
- How much does Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust give?
- Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust reported 41 grants totaling $670,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Human Services (20%), Health (18%).
- Who are Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Newday Services for Children and Families ($247k), Young Life ($233k), Kids' Meals Inc ($221k).
- Does Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust 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 Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Strake Foundation.
- Where is Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust based?
- Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust is based in TX.
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