How much does Kuykendall Foundation give?

Kuykendall Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $159,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 39 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Kuykendall Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Religion (19%), Health (15%).

Who are Kuykendall Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: First Christian Church ($81k), Refuge Services Inc ($55k), Lubbock Meals on Wheels Inc ($37k).

Does Kuykendall Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Kuykendall Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Kuykendall Foundation?

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

Where is Kuykendall Foundation based?

Kuykendall Foundation is based in TX.

Foundation Dossiers

Texas · Private foundation

Kuykendall Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$160k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 38
Grants FY2025: 39
Organizations funded FY2024: 8%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $4,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $13,500
Organizations funded a year: 33 to 39; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $2.3M
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 Kuykendall Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesOther

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	38	$160k	5%
FY2024	39	$148k	8%
FY2023	36	$140k	8%
FY2022	34	$132k	3%
FY2021	33	$130k	3%
FY2020	36	$124k	n/a

94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$171kReligion$155kHealth$126kFood & Nutrition$97kHousing & Shelter$67kPhilanthropy$57kArts & Culture$35kRecreation & Sports$23kOther$0

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
First Christian Church	$81,000	6	n/a
Refuge Services Inc	$55,000	6	3%
Lubbock Meals on Wheels Inc	$37,000	6	0%
South Plains Food Bank Inc	$36,000	6	0%
Family Promise of Lubbock Inc	$35,000	6	2%
Hospice of Lubbock Inc	$34,500	5	0%
Lubbock Area United Way Inc	$31,000	6	0%
Texas Girls and Boys Ranch	$28,000	6	0%
RONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC	$26,000	6	0%
Young Women's Christian Association of Lubbock	$24,000	6	0%

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All grantees of Kuykendall Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
First Christian Church	$81,000	6	n/a
Refuge Services Inc	$55,000	6	3%
Lubbock Meals on Wheels Inc	$37,000	6	0%
South Plains Food Bank Inc	$36,000	6	0%
Family Promise of Lubbock Inc	$35,000	6	2%
Hospice of Lubbock Inc	$34,500	5	0%
Lubbock Area United Way Inc	$31,000	6	0%
Texas Girls and Boys Ranch	$28,000	6	0%
RONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC	$26,000	6	0%
Young Women's Christian Association of Lubbock	$24,000	6	0%
Special Olympics of Texas Inc	$23,000	6	0%
Casa of the South Plains Inc	$21,500	6	0%
Women's Protective Services	$18,000	6	0%
The Dream Center	$17,000	6	n/a
Community Health Center of Lubbock Inc	$16,500	6	0%
Lubbock Symphony Orchestra Inc	$12,000	6	0%
Alcoholic Recovery Center Inc	$12,000	6	n/a
Museum of Texas Tech University Association	$12,000	6	1%
Alamo Area Rape Crisis Center	$12,000	6	0%
High Point Village Inc	$11,000	4	0%
Children's Home of Lubbock and Family Service Agency Inc	$10,000	5	0%
Lubbock Impact Inc	$4,000	2	0%
Junior League of Lubbock Inc	$500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($275k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kuykendall 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 20.

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.

Diekemper Family Foundation IncTX34.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Diekemper Family Foundation Inc · Ch Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of West Texas · Texas Instruments Foundation · South Plains Foundation · The Evelyn M Davies Foundation Trust · Helen Jones Foundation Inc · HDS Foundation · Mary L Livermore Foundation · Rc Johnson Jr Foundation Inc · Ershel Franklin Charitable Trust · International Assoc of Lions Clubs

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 Kuykendall Foundation

How much does Kuykendall Foundation give?: Kuykendall Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $159,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 39 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Kuykendall Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Religion (19%), Health (15%).
Who are Kuykendall Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: First Christian Church ($81k), Refuge Services Inc ($55k), Lubbock Meals on Wheels Inc ($37k).
Does Kuykendall Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kuykendall Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kuykendall Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Diekemper Family Foundation Inc, Ch Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of West Texas.
Where is Kuykendall Foundation based?: Kuykendall Foundation is based in TX.