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The Lillian Kaiser Lewis Foundation Co Frost Bank

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$137k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 18
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Lillian Kaiser Lewis Foundation Co Frost Bank funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationOther
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 arriving8$137k25%
FY20249$112k0%
FY202311$104k0%
FY202212$93k42%
FY202112$82k8%
FY202016$92k6%
FY201915$81k13%
FY201818$78k44%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$321kArts & Culture$136kReligion$130kHuman Services$117kHousing & Shelter$87kFood & Nutrition$30kEducation$18kYouth Development$18kOther$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
Holocaust Museum Houston$117,50060%
Jewish Family Service$99,30080%
Search Homeless Services$78,0009n/a
Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston$30,00030%
The Houston Food Bank$30,00080%
Camp For All Foundation$17,50070%
The Women's Resource of Greater Houston$17,00070%
Congregation Beth Israel$9,5003n/a
Emerging Grace Ministries Inc$9,0001n/a
AIDS Foundation Houston Inc$8,00040%
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All grantees of The Lillian Kaiser Lewis Foundation Co Frost Bank by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Holocaust Museum Houston$117,50060%
Jewish Family Service$99,30080%
Search Homeless Services$78,0009n/a
Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston$30,00030%
The Houston Food Bank$30,00080%
Camp For All Foundation$17,50070%
The Women's Resource of Greater Houston$17,00070%
Congregation Beth Israel$9,5003n/a
Emerging Grace Ministries Inc$9,0001n/a
AIDS Foundation Houston Inc$8,00040%
Child Advocates Inc$6,50050%
Casa de Esperanza$5,5003n/a
Covenant House Texas$5,00040%
Women on the Way Up$4,0001n/a
Vita Living Inc$4,00020%
Congregation Emanu El$3,0001n/a
Undies for Everyone$2,50011%
Casa de Esperanza de Los Ninos Inc$2,00020%
Palmer Drug Abuse Program Houston Inc$1,00020%
A Small Miracle Foundation$1,00012%
The Center for Hearing and Speech$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($384k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lillian Kaiser Lewis Foundation Co Frost Bank supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHolocaust Museum Houston: $117,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetJewish Family Service: $99,300 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $30,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCamp For All Foundation: $17,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston: $17,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAIDS Foundation Houston Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChild Advocates Inc: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House Texas: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVita Living Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUndies for Everyone: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCasa de Esperanza de Los Ninos Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPalmer Drug Abuse Program Houston Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetA Small Miracle Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetThe Center for Hearing and Speech: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 15.

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.

Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable FoundationTX19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Elkins Foundation · Strake Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation · The Enrico & Sandra Di Portanova Charitable Foundation · The Brodsky Foundation · The Junior League of Houston Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc

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 The Lillian Kaiser Lewis Foundation Co Frost Bank

How much does The Lillian Kaiser Lewis Foundation Co Frost Bank give?
The Lillian Kaiser Lewis Foundation Co Frost Bank reported 8 grants totaling $136,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Lillian Kaiser Lewis Foundation Co Frost Bank fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (36%), Arts & Culture (15%), Religion (15%).
Who are The Lillian Kaiser Lewis Foundation Co Frost Bank's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Holocaust Museum Houston ($118k), Jewish Family Service ($99k), Search Homeless Services ($78k).
Does The Lillian Kaiser Lewis Foundation Co Frost Bank fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Lillian Kaiser Lewis Foundation Co Frost Bank accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Lillian Kaiser Lewis Foundation Co Frost Bank?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company.
Where is The Lillian Kaiser Lewis Foundation Co Frost Bank based?
The Lillian Kaiser Lewis Foundation Co Frost Bank 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 33 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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