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Lift High Foundation Inc

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.

$310k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Itemized grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2021
40%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2024
$292k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 5
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$12M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 40% of the organizations Lift High Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving10$292k80%
FY20215$160k40%
FY20203$55kn/a
82% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$411kHousing & Shelter$45kHuman Services$20kRecreation & Sports$16kHealth$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($91k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lift High Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorth Harris Montgomery Community College District: $140,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMidland College Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCollege of the Mainland Foundation: $36,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetThe Tstc Foundation: $35,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDel Mar College Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGods Garage Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Community College Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 9.

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.

Shell USA Company FoundationTX16.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Texas Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Texas Mutual Insurance Company · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Lift High Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Lift High Foundation Inc 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 Lift High Foundation Inc

How much does Lift High Foundation Inc give?
Lift High Foundation Inc reported 10 itemized grants totaling $292,000, out of $310,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does Lift High Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (27%), Housing & Shelter (3%), Human Services (1%).
Who are Lift High Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: North Harris Montgomery Community College District ($140k), Texas A&M Foundation ($75k), Midland College Foundation ($50k).
Does Lift High Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lift High Foundation Inc 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 Lift High Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, Greater Texas Foundation, Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc.
Where is Lift High Foundation Inc based?
Lift High Foundation Inc 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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $396k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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