Texas · Private foundation
Lonnie & Jay Lischka Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $75k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2024
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,167
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 22
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 56% of the organizations Lonnie & Jay Lischka Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 14 | $75k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $29k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $60k | 62% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $59k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $50k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $52k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $58k | 55% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $50k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austin County Fair Association | $65,514 | 8 | 0% |
| Warrior Benefit | $55,000 | 4 | 42% |
| Bellville Volunteer Fire Department | $22,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Fisher House Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Christian New Creation Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels | $5,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Bernardo Volunteer Fire Department | $4,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Cat Spring Volunteer Fire Departmen | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Columbus Volunteer Fire Department | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austin County Fair Association | $65,514 | 8 | 0% |
| Warrior Benefit | $55,000 | 4 | 42% |
| Bellville Volunteer Fire Department | $22,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Fisher House Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Christian New Creation Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels | $5,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Bernardo Volunteer Fire Department | $4,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Cat Spring Volunteer Fire Departmen | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Columbus Volunteer Fire Department | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Unbound | $2,880 | 7 | 0% |
| Bellville Brahma Booster Club | $2,788 | 2 | 5% |
| St Josephs Indian School | $2,600 | 5 | n/a |
| Food Allergy Research & Education Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Lone Star Lions Eye Bank | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Brookwood Community Inc | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The 100 Club Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Parish of the Visitation | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Texas Lions Camp Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Food for the Poor Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Frio County Junior Livestock Show Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| The American Legion | $429 | 2 | 0% |
| Small Town Christmas | $240 | 1 | n/a |
| Knights of Columbus | $225 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($227k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lonnie & Jay Lischka Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 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.
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How this is measured
Compare Lonnie & Jay Lischka Family Foundation with peer funders
About Lonnie & Jay Lischka Family Foundation
- How much does Lonnie & Jay Lischka Family Foundation give?
- Lonnie & Jay Lischka Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $74,730 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Lonnie & Jay Lischka Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (29%), Religion (26%), Public Safety & Disaster (12%).
- Who are Lonnie & Jay Lischka Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Austin County Fair Association ($66k), Warrior Benefit ($55k), Bellville Volunteer Fire Department ($22k).
- Does Lonnie & Jay Lischka Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lonnie & Jay Lischka Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lonnie & Jay Lischka Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Lonnie & Jay Lischka Family Foundation based?
- Lonnie & Jay Lischka Family Foundation is based in TX.
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