Kansas · Private foundation
Linda Houston 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.
- $19k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,635
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 11
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations Linda Houston Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 | 5 | $19k | 60% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $29k | 57% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $32k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $42k | 55% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $62k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $40k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas City Symphony | $36,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The National Quilt Museum Inc | $36,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Mitchell Hamline School of Law | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kansas City Ballet Association | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Church of the Resurrection | $11,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Unified School District No 500 Kansas City Ks Public Schools | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Donnelly College | $8,385 | 2 | 0% |
| Future of US | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Fair Fight Initiative Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Johnson County Community College Foundation | $1,396 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($77k), 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: National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Linda Houston Foundation
- How much does Linda Houston Foundation give?
- Linda Houston Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $19,175 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Linda Houston Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), Education (28%), Crime & Legal (12%).
- Who are Linda Houston Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Kansas City Symphony ($36k), The National Quilt Museum Inc ($36k), Mitchell Hamline School of Law ($20k).
- Does Linda Houston Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Linda Houston 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 Linda Houston Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, The Blackbaud Giving Fund, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is Linda Houston Foundation based?
- Linda Houston Foundation is based in KS.
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