Texas · Private foundation
LykesKnapp Family Fund
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.
- $213k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations LykesKnapp Family Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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 | 18 | $213k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $135k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $230k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $93k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $142k | 53% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $62k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $122k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $41k | 60% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Chippewa Foundation | $113,725 | 9 | 3% |
| Memorial Park Conservancy Inc | $92,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Yellowstone Forever | $52,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Wasatch Academy | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Galveston Bay Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Western Landowners Alliance | $41,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Houston Parks Board | $37,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Christ Church Cathedral | $30,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Glenwood Cemetery Historic Preservation Foundation | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Transylvania University | $27,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($253k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget LykesKnapp Family Fund 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Elkins Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Strake Foundation · Alvin & Lucy Owsley Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Prioleau Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation
How this is measured
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About LykesKnapp Family Fund
- How much does LykesKnapp Family Fund give?
- LykesKnapp Family Fund reported 18 grants totaling $213,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does LykesKnapp Family Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (25%), Religion (18%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
- Who are LykesKnapp Family Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Camp Chippewa Foundation ($114k), Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ($92k), Yellowstone Forever ($53k).
- Does LykesKnapp Family Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does LykesKnapp Family Fund 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 LykesKnapp Family Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc, The Elkins Foundation.
- Where is LykesKnapp Family Fund based?
- LykesKnapp Family Fund is based in TX.
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