Texas · Private foundation
Lisa and Clay Cooley 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.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,350,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 40
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.9M
- 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 Lisa and Clay Cooley Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $560k 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 | 25 | $1.9M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $2.5M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $2.4M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $2.7M | 55% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $1.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preston Road Church of Christ | $5,955,000 | 5 | n/a |
| National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation | $1,000,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Christ Church Irving Inc | $700,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Crystal Charity Ball | $639,312 | 5 | 2% |
| Southern Methodist University | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Texas State History Museum Foundation | $208,322 | 5 | 6% |
| Council for Life | $149,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Equest | $142,545 | 5 | 2% |
| Lukes FastBreaks | $113,140 | 4 | 10% |
| Dallas Symphony Association | $97,840 | 3 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($787k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lisa and Clay Cooley Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 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: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Moody Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Kline Family Foundation · The Perot Foundation · Jm Haggar Jr Family Foundation · The Aileen and Jack Pratt Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Craig and Kathryn Hall Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Lisa and Clay Cooley Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Lisa and Clay Cooley Family Foundation
- How much does Lisa and Clay Cooley Family Foundation give?
- Lisa and Clay Cooley Family Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $2,121,128 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 40 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Lisa and Clay Cooley Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (56%), Arts & Culture (15%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Lisa and Clay Cooley Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Preston Road Church of Christ ($6.0M), National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation ($1.0M), Christ Church Irving Inc ($700k).
- Does Lisa and Clay Cooley Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lisa and Clay Cooley 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 Lisa and Clay Cooley Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dallas Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Texas Instruments Foundation.
- Where is Lisa and Clay Cooley Family Foundation based?
- Lisa and Clay Cooley Family Foundation is based in TX.
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