Texas · Private foundation
The Lunsford 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.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2024
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,795,013
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 59
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations The Lunsford Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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 | 15 | $2.3M | 47% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $997k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $2.2M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 46 | $678k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 59 | $2.7M | 37% |
| FY2019 | 44 | $1.3M | 39% |
| FY2018 | 48 | $731k | 58% |
| FY2017 | 32 | $484k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dallas Baptist University | $1,560,500 | 6 | 1% |
| First Liberty Institute | $1,550,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Prestonwood Baptist Church | $915,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Ramesh Richard Evangelism and Church Health | $650,000 | 4 | 4% |
| EvanTell Inc | $382,550 | 7 | 10% |
| East-West Ministries International | $328,783 | 6 | 0% |
| Rwanda Children | $325,000 | 7 | 11% |
| Pulse Outreach | $315,000 | 3 | 2% |
| The Urban Alternative | $250,350 | 3 | 1% |
| Christian Works For Children Inc | $235,000 | 6 | 5% |
Show all 99 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Lunsford Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 75 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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Hillcrest Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Rowling Foundation · Dallas Seminary Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Lunsford Foundation
- How much does The Lunsford Foundation give?
- The Lunsford Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $2,338,900 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 59 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Lunsford Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (31%), Education (17%), Philanthropy (15%).
- Who are The Lunsford Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Dallas Baptist University ($1.6M), First Liberty Institute ($1.6M), Prestonwood Baptist Church ($915k).
- Does The Lunsford Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lunsford 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 Lunsford Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Dallas Foundation, Texas Instruments Foundation.
- Where is The Lunsford Foundation based?
- The Lunsford Foundation is based in TX.
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