Oklahoma · Private foundation
Lessley 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.
- $7k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 5
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Lessley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 2 | $7k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $8k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $9k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $6k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $1k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $2k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indian Nations Council Boy Scouts of America | $21,125 | 4 | 0% |
| Oklahoma State University Foundation | $4,269 | 2 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Tulsa Ballet Theatre Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $521 | 1 | n/a |
| Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Family & Childrens Services Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Crested Butte Land Trust | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($1k), not named here.
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: The Robert S & Helen Grey Trippet Foundation Inc · The Oxley Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Zarrow Families Foundation · Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · One Gas Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Lessley Foundation
- How much does Lessley Foundation give?
- Lessley Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $6,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Lessley Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (68%), Education (13%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Lessley Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Indian Nations Council Boy Scouts of America ($21k), Oklahoma State University Foundation ($4k), Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa ($3k).
- Does Lessley Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lessley 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 Lessley Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Robert S & Helen Grey Trippet Foundation Inc, The Oxley Foundation, Mervin Bovaird Foundation.
- Where is Lessley Foundation based?
- Lessley Foundation is based in OK.
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