Texas · Private foundation
Vest 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.
- $543k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $108,400
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 19
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Vest Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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 | 21 | $543k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $429k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $346k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $256k | 58% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $130k | 88% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $25k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Odessa College Foundation Inc | $155,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Story Vest Memorial | $130,000 | 4 | 74% |
| Childress County Youth Project Show | $130,000 | 5 | 85% |
| Forget Me Not Frances | $115,000 | 6 | 33% |
| West Texas Diamonds in the Ruff | $105,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Transpecos Dusty Paws Inc | $80,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Southwestern Diabetic Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
| 238 Junior Livestock Association | $70,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Paws Worth Fighting For | $70,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Shiloh Baptist Church | $65,000 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Odessa College Foundation Inc | $155,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Story Vest Memorial | $130,000 | 4 | 74% |
| Childress County Youth Project Show | $130,000 | 5 | 85% |
| Forget Me Not Frances | $115,000 | 6 | 33% |
| West Texas Diamonds in the Ruff | $105,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Transpecos Dusty Paws Inc | $80,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Southwestern Diabetic Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
| 238 Junior Livestock Association | $70,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Paws Worth Fighting For | $70,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Shiloh Baptist Church | $65,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Sherwood & Myrtie Foster's Home for Children | $61,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Ward County Greater Works Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Ward County Senior Citizens Center | $50,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Childress Christian Academy | $30,000 | 1 | 37% |
| Casa of the Rolling Plains | $29,000 | 4 | 4% |
| In Touch Ministries Inc | $20,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Joyce Meyer Ministries Inc | $20,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Word of God Fellowship Inc | $20,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Transformative Leadership Academy TL Academy | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Free Chapel Worship Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($439k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Vest Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
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About Vest Family Foundation
- How much does Vest Family Foundation give?
- Vest Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $543,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Vest Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (27%), Recreation & Sports (13%), Animals (12%).
- Who are Vest Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Odessa College Foundation Inc ($155k), Story Vest Memorial ($130k), Childress County Youth Project Show ($130k).
- Does Vest Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Vest 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 Vest Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Vest Family Foundation based?
- Vest Family Foundation is based in TX.
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