Texas · Private foundation
The Lindley Family 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.
- $160k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations The Lindley Family Foundation 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; $60k 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 | 13 | $160k | 54% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $146k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $131k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $120k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $77k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $72k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $79k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $79k | 60% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Lukes United Methodist Church | $160,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Friends of Pumpkin Park | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Houston Zoo Inc | $99,040 | 9 | 0% |
| Houston Museum of Natural Science | $86,052 | 8 | 0% |
| The Museum of Fine Arts Houston | $60,780 | 7 | 0% |
| Houston Botanic Garden | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Memorial Park Conservancy Inc | $39,540 | 5 | 0% |
| John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| My Connect Community | $35,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Coastal Prairie Conservancy | $22,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($27k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lindley Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · J Squared Family Foundation · Willard And Ruth Johnson Charitable Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Alvin & Lucy Owsley Foundation · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · Hobby Family Foundation · Sterling-Turner Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Lindley Family Foundation
- How much does The Lindley Family Foundation give?
- The Lindley Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $159,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Lindley Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (17%), Recreation & Sports (16%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are The Lindley Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Lukes United Methodist Church ($160k), Friends of Pumpkin Park ($100k), Houston Zoo Inc ($99k).
- Does The Lindley Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lindley Family 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 The Lindley Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc, Vivian L Smith Foundation.
- Where is The Lindley Family Foundation based?
- The Lindley Family Foundation is based in TX.
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