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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
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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.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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
FY2025still arriving20$480k30%
FY202425$563k44%
FY202315$370k40%
FY202212$260k17%
FY202113$247k54%
FY20209$229k22%
FY20199$229k33%
FY20187$201k86%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$513kReligion$510kFood & Nutrition$403kEnvironment$234kHuman Services$207kYouth Development$190kAnimals$171kHealth$127kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mesa County Land Conservancy Inc$198,00071%
Carillon Foundation$157,000511%
Greenwood Fine Arts Academy$114,000257%
Lubbock Arts Alliance Inc$103,00084%
Lubbock Community Theatre$90,00047%
Gj Blackout$75,00016%
Nourish Colorado$70,00021%
Rocky Mountain Arts$70,000631%
Lubbock Meals on Wheels Inc$69,02933%
South Plains Food Bank Inc$64,92420%
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.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMesa County Land Conservancy Inc: $198,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetCarillon Foundation: $157,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetGreenwood Fine Arts Academy: $114,000 over 2y, 57% of budgetLubbock Arts Alliance Inc: $103,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetLubbock Community Theatre: $90,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetGj Blackout: $75,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetNourish Colorado: $70,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRocky Mountain Arts: $70,000 over 6y, 31% of budgetLubbock Meals on Wheels Inc: $69,029 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetSouth Plains Food Bank Inc: $64,924 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAlstrom Angels: $63,110 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetAmerican Windmill Museum Inc: $49,147 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCommunity Health Center of Lubbock Inc: $44,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Colorado Nonprofit Development Center: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Learning Council: $40,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetColorado Canyons Association: $36,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetManna Food Bank Inc: $33,334 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMutual Aid Disaster Relief Inc: $33,333 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetUnited Way of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc: $33,333 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGrand Valley Youth Cycling: $32,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetBallet Lubbock: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHonor Veterans Now: $22,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetUnlimited Play Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Gregory Kistler Treatment Center Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBuckner Children & Family Services Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLubbock Experience Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPost-Garza County EMS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAbilities Unlimited of Fort Smith Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLubbock Symphony Guild Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetMonarch 61 Project Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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.

Ch Foundation IncTX24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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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How do I get to Sessions Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Sessions Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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.

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 47 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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