Tennessee · Private foundation
Lonnie & Kitty Strickland Charitable 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.
- $341k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 59%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 49
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 59% of the organizations Lonnie & Kitty Strickland Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k 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 | 52 | $339k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $341k | 59% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $65k | 48% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $55k | 48% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $52k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stricks Gift | $58,100 | 5 | n/a |
| Medicos Mission Fund | $17,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| West Alabama Food Bank Inc | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $12,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Baylor School | $10,650 | 3 | 0% |
| Pams Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Hope Included | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Black Warrior Heritage Society Fndtn | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Better Decisions | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($527k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lonnie & Kitty Strickland Charitable 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: The James I Harrison Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Reese Phifer Jr Memorial Attn Susan Cork · Nick's Kids Foundation Inc · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · McAbee Family Foundation · Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation · Benwood Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham
How this is measured
Compare Lonnie & Kitty Strickland Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Lonnie & Kitty Strickland Charitable Foundation
- How much does Lonnie & Kitty Strickland Charitable Foundation give?
- Lonnie & Kitty Strickland Charitable Foundation reported 53 grants totaling $341,426 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 49 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Lonnie & Kitty Strickland Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (14%), Education (12%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Lonnie & Kitty Strickland Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Stricks Gift ($58k), Medicos Mission Fund ($17k), Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ($15k).
- Does Lonnie & Kitty Strickland Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lonnie & Kitty Strickland Charitable 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 Lonnie & Kitty Strickland Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The James I Harrison Family Foundation, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Alabama Power Foundation Inc.
- Where is Lonnie & Kitty Strickland Charitable Foundation based?
- Lonnie & Kitty Strickland Charitable Foundation is based in TN.
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