Texas · Private foundation
Sessions Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $480k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $84,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Sessions Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k 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 | 20 | $480k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $563k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $370k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $260k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $247k | 54% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $229k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $229k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $201k | 86% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mesa County Land Conservancy Inc | $198,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Carillon Foundation | $157,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Greenwood Fine Arts Academy | $114,000 | 2 | 57% |
| Lubbock Arts Alliance Inc | $103,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Lubbock Community Theatre | $90,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Gj Blackout | $75,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Nourish Colorado | $70,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Rocky Mountain Arts | $70,000 | 6 | 31% |
| Lubbock Meals on Wheels Inc | $69,029 | 3 | 3% |
| South Plains Food Bank Inc | $64,924 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sessions Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 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.
Open a dossier: Ch Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of West Texas · Helen Jones Foundation Inc · Diekemper Family Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Garrison Family Foundation · Mary L Livermore Foundation · Welborn-Payne Endowment Trust · South Plains Foundation · The Evelyn M Davies Foundation Trust · Civic Lubbock Inc · HDS Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sessions Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Sessions Family Foundation Inc give?
- Sessions Family Foundation Inc reported 20 grants totaling $480,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sessions Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (19%), Religion (19%), Food & Nutrition (15%).
- Who are Sessions Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mesa County Land Conservancy Inc ($198k), Carillon Foundation ($157k), Greenwood Fine Arts Academy ($114k).
- Does Sessions Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sessions Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sessions Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ch Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of West Texas, Helen Jones Foundation Inc.
- Where is Sessions Family Foundation Inc based?
- Sessions Family Foundation Inc is based in TX.
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