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Sara H & John H Lindsey Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$492k
Granted FY2020
9
Grants FY2020
9
Organizations funded FY2020
100%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$343,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
4
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 100% of the organizations Sara H & John H Lindsey Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $492k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’20
Human ServicesAnimalsEducationInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20209$492k100%
FY20181$27k100%
FY20171$30kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Health$363kHuman Services$60kEducation$50kReligion$42kAnimals$27kPhilanthropy$7k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Christ Church Lutheran$30,0001n/a
Houston Zoo Inc$27,20010%
Houston Pregnancy Help Center Inc$20,00011%
LifeHouse of Houston Inc$20,00012%
Yellowstone Academy Inc Dba Yellowstone Schools$20,00010%
Hope Heals Inc$20,00012%
Elijah Rising$20,00011%
Ananias House$20,00012%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($372k), 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA11.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Sara H & John H Lindsey Foundation

How much does Sara H & John H Lindsey Foundation give?
Sara H & John H Lindsey Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $492,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Sara H & John H Lindsey Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Health (66%), Human Services (11%), Education (9%).
Who are Sara H & John H Lindsey Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Christ Church Lutheran ($30k), Houston Zoo Inc ($27k), Houston Pregnancy Help Center Inc ($20k).
Does Sara H & John H Lindsey Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sara H & John H Lindsey Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sara H & John H Lindsey Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, American Endowment Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Sara H & John H Lindsey Foundation based?
Sara H & John H Lindsey Foundation is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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