Texas · Private foundation
Lesley Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $195,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 33
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations Lesley Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $203k 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 | 27 | $1.0M | 33% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $897k | 34% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $900k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $1.1M | 61% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $775k | 53% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $936k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $799k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Christian University | $1,245,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Heirloom Cacao Preservation Fund | $729,537 | 5 | 74% |
| North Texas Food Bank | $435,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Promise House Inc | $390,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Furry Friendzy | $330,000 | 2 | 67% |
| Great Plains Restoration Council | $220,000 | 5 | 37% |
| International Ballet Theatre | $200,000 | 3 | 53% |
| Ennis Public Theatre | $150,000 | 5 | 18% |
| Texas Lawyers for Children | $115,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Children's Medical Center Foundation | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 65 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($612k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lesley Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Texas Women's Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc · The Moody Foundation · The Ninnie L Baird Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Lesley Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Lesley Family Foundation Inc give?
- Lesley Family Foundation Inc reported 27 grants totaling $1,001,790 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 33 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Lesley Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Food & Nutrition (20%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Lesley Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Texas Christian University ($1.2M), Heirloom Cacao Preservation Fund ($730k), North Texas Food Bank ($435k).
- Does Lesley Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lesley Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lesley Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, W P & Bulah Luse Foundation, Hillcrest Foundation.
- Where is Lesley Family Foundation Inc based?
- Lesley Family Foundation Inc is based in TX.
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