Oklahoma · Private foundation
Lester Family 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.
- $58k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $27,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $164k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Lester Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 19 | $58k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $21k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $20k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $19k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $20k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $23k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $35k | 18% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sigma Chi Foundation | $39,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Purdue Research Foundation | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Young Life | $19,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Crested Butte Land Trust | $16,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Allied Arts of Oklahoma Inc | $15,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Oklahoma City Geological Foundation | $14,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Impact Oklahoma Inc | $11,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics Foundation | $9,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Oklahoma Arts Institute Inc | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| INTEGRIS Health Foundation Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($46k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lester Family 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.
Open a dossier: El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Harris Foundation Inc · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Rainbolt Family Foundation · The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · Macklanburg-Hulsey Foundation Inc · Fred Jones Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Lester Family Foundation
- How much does Lester Family Foundation give?
- Lester Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $57,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lester Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (44%), Arts & Culture (17%), Youth Development (11%).
- Who are Lester Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sigma Chi Foundation ($40k), Purdue Research Foundation ($25k), Young Life ($19k).
- Does Lester Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lester Family 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 Lester Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation, Inasmuch Foundation, American Fidelity Foundation.
- Where is Lester Family Foundation based?
- Lester Family Foundation is based in OK.
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