Texas · Private foundation
The Looper Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $4.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2024
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,075,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 39
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $46M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations The Looper Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $258k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 19 | $4.5M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $4.3M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $1.7M | 29% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $900k | 55% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $750k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $410k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $7.4M | 33% |
| FY2017 | 39 | $5.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Life | $3,720,000 | 4 | 0% |
| College of Biblical Studies - Houston | $1,770,000 | 6 | 10% |
| Fuller Theological Seminary | $1,752,345 | 3 | 1% |
| Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc | $1,515,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Houston Christian University | $1,241,357 | 3 | 1% |
| Living Water International | $775,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Cho-Yeh Camp and Conference Center Inc | $595,833 | 3 | 4% |
| Alongside Inc | $525,000 | 3 | 17% |
| Praxis Inc | $500,550 | 3 | 6% |
| Edify | $500,000 | 2 | 4% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Looper Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Hg Ash Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Midway Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Looper Foundation
- How much does The Looper Foundation give?
- The Looper Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $4,523,770 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 39 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Looper Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (21%), Philanthropy (19%), Youth Development (10%).
- Who are The Looper Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Young Life ($3.7M), College of Biblical Studies - Houston ($1.8M), Fuller Theological Seminary ($1.8M).
- Does The Looper Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Looper 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 Looper Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Christian Community Foundation Inc, Servant Foundation.
- Where is The Looper Foundation based?
- The Looper Foundation is based in TX.
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