Texas · Private foundation
Joy 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.
- $165k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 11
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Joy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 95% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k 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 | 11 | $165k | 82% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $195k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $83k | 80% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $80k | 71% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $73k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $35k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Different Day Foundation | $184,629 | 1 | 10% |
| Angleton Christian School | $55,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Bob Tallman's Childrens Charities Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Sojourn Landing DBA The Landing | $30,350 | 1 | 1% |
| Cure RTD Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Turtle Wing Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Brookwood Community Inc | $18,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Covenant House Texas | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Texas Equusearch Mounted Search and Recovery | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Lone Oak Gives | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Different Day Foundation | $184,629 | 1 | 10% |
| Angleton Christian School | $55,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Bob Tallman's Childrens Charities Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Sojourn Landing DBA The Landing | $30,350 | 1 | 1% |
| Cure RTD Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Turtle Wing Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Brookwood Community Inc | $18,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Covenant House Texas | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Texas Equusearch Mounted Search and Recovery | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Lone Oak Gives | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Texas Gulf Coast & Louisiana Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Assessment Center Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jab Cares | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bo's Place | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Catherine of Sienna | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Southern Outdoor Dreams | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Brazoria County Alliance for Children Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Sunshine Kids Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Arbor School | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Texas Tech Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Search Homeless Services | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hope Media Group | $4,500 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($138k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joy Foundation 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Joy Foundation
- How much does Joy Foundation give?
- Joy Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $165,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Joy Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (48%), Education (18%), Health (17%).
- Who are Joy Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Different Day Foundation ($185k), Angleton Christian School ($55k), Bob Tallman's Childrens Charities Inc ($35k).
- Does Joy Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joy 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 Joy Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, Servant Foundation.
- Where is Joy Foundation based?
- Joy Foundation is based in TX.
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