Texas · Private foundation
William S and Lora Jean Kilroy Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $750k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $210,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 44
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations William S and Lora Jean Kilroy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 9 | $750k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $483k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $914k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $945k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $817k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $817k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $713k | 49% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $739k | 52% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joy Development School | $1,548,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Glenwood Cemetery Inc | $970,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Houston Museum of Natural Science | $586,100 | 6 | 1% |
| The Museum of Fine Arts Houston | $441,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Kinkaid School Inc | $401,712 | 4 | 0% |
| Hungarian-American Coalition | $240,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sam Houston University Foundation | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union | $129,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Women's Home | $112,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Houston Zoo Inc | $104,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 71 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget William S and Lora Jean Kilroy 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 · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Strake Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Mechia Foundation · The Powell Foundation · The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation · Greentree Fund
How this is measured
Compare William S and Lora Jean Kilroy Foundation with peer funders
About William S and Lora Jean Kilroy Foundation
- How much does William S and Lora Jean Kilroy Foundation give?
- William S and Lora Jean Kilroy Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $750,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does William S and Lora Jean Kilroy Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (39%), Membership Benefit (16%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are William S and Lora Jean Kilroy Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Joy Development School ($1.5M), Glenwood Cemetery Inc ($970k), Houston Museum of Natural Science ($586k).
- Does William S and Lora Jean Kilroy Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does William S and Lora Jean Kilroy Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as William S and Lora Jean Kilroy Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation.
- Where is William S and Lora Jean Kilroy Foundation based?
- William S and Lora Jean Kilroy Foundation is based in TX.
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