Texas · Private foundation
Leon Payne Jr Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $58k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $18,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 14
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Leon Payne Jr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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 | 12 | $57k | 42% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $76k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $58k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $64k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $57k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Church of St John the Divine | $50,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Methodist Hospital Foundation | $38,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Vanderbilt University | $12,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $11,848 | 5 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| St John's School | $8,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Southern Methodist University | $6,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Houston Humane Society | $6,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Menninger Clinic | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Church of St John the Divine | $50,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Methodist Hospital Foundation | $38,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Vanderbilt University | $12,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $11,848 | 5 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| St John's School | $8,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Southern Methodist University | $6,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Houston Humane Society | $6,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Menninger Clinic | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Houston Arboretum & Nature Center | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Texas Children's Hospital | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Nmdp Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Junior League of Houston Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Small Steps Nurturing Center | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kerrville Pets Alive | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Concert Against Cancer | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Wildlife Center of Texas Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($142k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Leon Payne Jr 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.
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How this is measured
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About Leon Payne Jr Foundation
- How much does Leon Payne Jr Foundation give?
- Leon Payne Jr Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $57,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 14 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Leon Payne Jr Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (27%), Religion (21%), Arts & Culture (20%).
- Who are Leon Payne Jr Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: The Church of St John the Divine ($50k), The Methodist Hospital Foundation ($39k), Vanderbilt University ($13k).
- Does Leon Payne Jr Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Leon Payne Jr Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Leon Payne Jr Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Nancy and Clive Runnells Foundation, Strake Foundation.
- Where is Leon Payne Jr Foundation based?
- Leon Payne Jr Foundation is based in TX.
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