The Priddy Foundation®

The Priddy Foundation® is a US private foundation based in Wichita Falls, TX.

Profile derived from the foundation's IRS Form 990-PF filings (TY2025, TY2024, TY2023) and its website, with every statement checked against those sources. Sources read on 7 October 2026.

Priority Areas

The Priddy Foundation supports programmes in human services, education, the arts and health, for individual development and community improvement. It favours programmes with lasting and favourable impact on individuals and organisations. Programme grants are intended to create or expand services addressing identified problems and opportunities; they should generally be sustainable beyond the grant period, fit the applicant’s mission and capacity, and be evaluated against defined standards. The Foundation also considers operating grants, capital projects and organisational-development support, including leadership development, planning, technical assistance and technology enhancements. Operating requests should set out a practicable plan for self-sufficiency. It considers applications from organisations with a physical location in its listed Texas and Oklahoma counties. Applicants must document 501(c)(3) exempt classification; the Foundation neither lends nor grants money to individuals.

Themes

• Human services
• Education
• Arts
• Health

Geographic Focus

Archer; Baylor; Childress; Clay; Cottle; Foard; Hardeman; Haskell; Jack; King; Knox; Montague; Stonewall; Throckmorton; Wichita; Wilbarger; Wise; Young; Comanche; Cotton; Jackson; Jefferson; Stephens; Tillman.

What They Don't Fund

• Basic or applied research
• Charities operated by service clubs
• Conferences or other educational events except through an organizational development grant
• Debt retirement
• Endowments
• Fundraising programs and events
• Grants that impose expenditure responsibility on the foundation
• Grants that would obligate the foundation to future funding
• Grants to individuals, including individual scholarship awards
• Individual public schools (PK-12)
• Marketing productions or publications
• Organizations that make grants to others
• Operating deficits
• Previously supported capital projects
• Religious institutions except for non-sectarian, human service programs offered on a non-discriminatory basis
• School trips
• Start-up funding for new organizations
• Volunteer fire departments
• A private foundation

Applicants submit a short Letter of Intent (LOI) for policy screening; those whose projects are accepted at that stage are invited to complete a more detailed formal application.

Deadlines:

• Spring-cycle Letters of Intent are due each 1 February.
• Fall-cycle Letters of Intent are due each 1 August.
• Spring-cycle formal applications are due each 1 March.
• Fall-cycle formal applications are due each 1 September.

• Repeat giving: In its TY2025 filing, 94% of its grant dollars to organisations went to organisations it had also funded in its TY2023 or TY2024 filing.
• Grant size: Across its TY2023, TY2024 and TY2025 filings, half of its 430 grants to organisations were $40,000 or less.

What the foundation says:

• The Foundation prioritises programmes with lasting and favourable impact on individuals and organisations.
• It has significant interest in requests that create or expand programme services.
• Programme requests should address identified problems and opportunities effectively.
• It favours programmes that can be sustained beyond the grant period and fit the organisation’s mission and capacity.
• Organisations should evaluate results against defined standards of measurement.
• Operating-grant requests typically require a practicable plan for organisational self-sufficiency.
• For capital projects, approval is more likely where there is existing, broad support from organisations and individuals.
• Capital applicants must meet their fundraising goal and document that raised funds can complete the project as proposed.
• Organisational-development requests need a comprehensive board-supported plan, appropriate professional assistance and a link to sustaining the organisation’s mission.
• Organisations whose LOIs are approved must attend the Grant Seekers Workshop to learn about application and reporting processes.
• A site visit is scheduled between Foundation board or staff and applicant leadership.