Texas · Private foundation
R Leon Gibson & Mary F Gibson 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.
- $39k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $932k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations R Leon Gibson & Mary F Gibson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 10 | $39k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $40k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $33k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $36k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $48k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $41k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $49k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $53k | 8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helping Hands of Kilgore | $60,385 | 9 | 5% |
| Hiway 80 Rescue Mission | $48,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Sabine Volunteer Fire Department Inc | $34,900 | 8 | 2% |
| Crims Chapel Volunteer Fire Department Inc | $29,677 | 7 | 9% |
| East Texas Angel Network Inc | $18,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Rusk County | $13,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Kilgore Men of Alliance Inc | $3,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Rahabs Retreat and Ranch Inc | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Pursuit Church | $750 | 2 | n/a |
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($198k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: The Crain Foundation
How this is measured
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About R Leon Gibson & Mary F Gibson Foundation
- How much does R Leon Gibson & Mary F Gibson Foundation give?
- R Leon Gibson & Mary F Gibson Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $39,434 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does R Leon Gibson & Mary F Gibson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (17%), Public Safety & Disaster (16%), Education (14%).
- Who are R Leon Gibson & Mary F Gibson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Helping Hands of Kilgore ($60k), Hiway 80 Rescue Mission ($49k), Sabine Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($35k).
- Does R Leon Gibson & Mary F Gibson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does R Leon Gibson & Mary F Gibson 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 R Leon Gibson & Mary F Gibson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Crain Foundation.
- Where is R Leon Gibson & Mary F Gibson Foundation based?
- R Leon Gibson & Mary F Gibson Foundation is based in TX.
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