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Kyle Lake 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.

$13k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
64%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,781
Organizations funded a year
6 to 19
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$188k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 64% of the organizations Kyle Lake Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionHealthHuman 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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$13k60%
FY202414$74k64%
FY202313$40k69%
FY20226$50k0%
FY20217$51k29%
FY20207$22k29%
FY201919$68k84%
FY201813$57kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$218kReligion$76kHealth$33kEmployment$20kRecreation & Sports$7kCrime & Legal$5kHuman Services$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
OR
CA
AR
SC
OK
AL
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Baylor University$113,58770%
Dallas Baptist University$7,50020%
The Master's University and Seminary$5,00020%
East Texas Baptist University$5,00020%
The Brook Hill School Inc$3,18410%
New Creation Foundation Inc$3,00210%
Tapkard Inc$2,98611%
Tyler Junior College$2,5001n/a
LeTourneau University$2,50010%
Ouachita Baptist University$2,50010%
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All grantees of Kyle Lake Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Baylor University$113,58770%
Dallas Baptist University$7,50020%
The Master's University and Seminary$5,00020%
East Texas Baptist University$5,00020%
The Brook Hill School Inc$3,18410%
New Creation Foundation Inc$3,00210%
Tapkard Inc$2,98611%
Tyler Junior College$2,5001n/a
LeTourneau University$2,50010%
Ouachita Baptist University$2,50010%
Pepperdine University$2,50010%
William Marsh Rice University$2,50010%
Frontier Camp Inc$2,13410%
Breckenridge Village$1,50710%
Valor Preparatory Academy$1,50710%
Pastors Hope Network$1,00011%

Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($217k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kyle Lake Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBaylor University: $113,587 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Baptist University: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Master's University and Seminary: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEast Texas Baptist University: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brook Hill School Inc: $3,184 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Creation Foundation Inc: $3,002 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTapkard Inc: $2,986 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLeTourneau University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOuachita Baptist University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPepperdine University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFrontier Camp Inc: $2,134 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBreckenridge Village: $1,507 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetValor Preparatory Academy: $1,507 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPastors Hope Network: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget

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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 15.

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.

East Texas Communities FoundationTX21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Texas Communities Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Jack and Charlotte Owen Education Scholarship · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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How do I get to Kyle Lake Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kyle Lake Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Kyle Lake Foundation

How much does Kyle Lake Foundation give?
Kyle Lake Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $12,781 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Kyle Lake Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (58%), Religion (20%), Health (9%).
Who are Kyle Lake Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Baylor University ($114k), Dallas Baptist University ($8k), The Master's University and Seminary ($5k).
Does Kyle Lake Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kyle Lake 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 Kyle Lake Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Texas Communities Foundation, Folds of Honor Foundation, Jack and Charlotte Owen Education Scholarship.
Where is Kyle Lake Foundation based?
Kyle Lake Foundation is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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