Texas · Private foundation
Live Oak 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.
- $301k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $14,601
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $123,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Live Oak Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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 | 14 | $301k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $490k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $305k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $118k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $1.4M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $172k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $254k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $156k | 7% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance for Children Inc | $207,184 | 9 | 1% |
| The Center for the Arts | $102,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Ach Child and Family Services | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Women's Center of Tarrant County Inc | $71,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Azle Education Foundation | $49,758 | 9 | 5% |
| Azle Isd | $45,085 | 5 | n/a |
| Texas Academy 4 | $31,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Safe Harbor Counseling Center Inc | $24,028 | 3 | 3% |
| Double Eagle Charities Inc | $14,250 | 1 | 2% |
| Fort Worth Junior Golf Foundation Inc | $7,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance for Children Inc | $207,184 | 9 | 1% |
| The Center for the Arts | $102,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Ach Child and Family Services | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Women's Center of Tarrant County Inc | $71,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Azle Education Foundation | $49,758 | 9 | 5% |
| Azle Isd | $45,085 | 5 | n/a |
| Texas Academy 4 | $31,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Safe Harbor Counseling Center Inc | $24,028 | 3 | 3% |
| Double Eagle Charities Inc | $14,250 | 1 | 2% |
| Fort Worth Junior Golf Foundation Inc | $7,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Gunnison Tough | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Azle Library Trust | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Live Oak 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: Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · R4 Foundation · Amon G Carter Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Bnsf Railway Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Live Oak Foundation
- How much does Live Oak Foundation give?
- Live Oak Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $301,024 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Live Oak Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (44%), Food & Nutrition (16%), Religion (9%).
- Who are Live Oak Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Alliance for Children Inc ($207k), The Center for the Arts ($102k), Ach Child and Family Services ($100k).
- Does Live Oak Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Live Oak 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 Live Oak Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, R4 Foundation.
- Where is Live Oak Foundation based?
- Live Oak Foundation is based in TX.
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