Lightsey Family Charitable Trust
The organization is a private foundation dedicated to charitable giving across various causes. Its mission appears to focus on supporting education, human services, and community initiatives, as evidenced by its funding for scholarships, counseling services, and support for homeless health initiatives. The foundation provides grants to a range of recipients, including churches, food banks, and educational institutions, reflecting a commitment to community welfare and support for vulnerable populations. It primarily serves organizations in multiple states, indicating a broader geographic outreach.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
Ideal Applicant
A small or mid-sized nonprofit working in education, faith-based community programs, homeless services, food security, or donor-designated community initiatives that can be connected to the foundation’s officers or family donors.
Good Fit
- • Programs in scholarships, churches, homeless services, or food bank/hunger relief.
- • Project budgets in the $1,000–$10,000 range (with occasional larger scholarship support).
- • A clear link or introduction to the Lightsey family, trustees, or a named referrer.
- • Willingness to accept donor-designated or restricted support and to report on specific uses.
Geography
The latest observed grants spanned five states with 83% of 2023 dollars going out of the foundation’s home state; a multi-state footprint is evident in the most recent year.
Recipient Variety
In 2023 the foundation made ten grants to ten distinct and apparently independent organizations across several sectors, showing a fairly broad recipient mix for a micro private foundation.
New Applicants
Direct application access is restricted—filings state grants are only to preselected recipients—but the observed giving shows the funder added ten new recipients in 2023 and no repeats across the two years, so new entrants have been funded even though there is no public application route.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
