During its early decades, the Leland Fikes Foundation funded a broad array of causes. More recently, the Foundation has intentionally narrowed its focus and now primarily supports organizations concentrated in four major fields.
The Leland Fikes Foundation funds general operations, programs and direct services, advocacy, and capacity building in alignment with our four strategic priorities:
Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice
We support a range of strategies to advance RHRJ. This includes access to reproductive healthcare and information, including contraception and abortion; building the pipeline of healthcare providers; advocacy and power building; research; and strategic litigation.
Democracy
We seek to strengthen a free, inclusive, and transparent democracy through responsive policy, fair processes, empowered citizens, and fact-based journalism. This work includes support for public policy, strategic litigation, civil rights, election infrastructure and protection, and voting.
Dallas-Area Human Services
We support our local community through a variety of organizations addressing challenges such as homelessness, food insecurity, and physical and mental health.
Medical Research
In partnership with UT Southwestern Medical Center, we invest in innovative and promising medical research projects to advance science and healthcare.
Just as systemic racism and other structural inequities permeate all areas of society, we seek to further equity through all areas of our grantmaking. Applicants should be prepared to share how racial equity informs their program development and implementation. We are committed to listening, learning, collaborating, and deepening our work to combat racism and injustice in each of our stated priority areas.
We prioritize organizations working nationwide, statewide in Texas, and locally in Dallas.
| Total Granted 2015-2024 |
Number of Grants |
Average Grant Size |
Median Grant Size |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice | $20,305,840 | 124 | $163,757 | $50,000 |
| Democracy | $11,884,000 | 165 | $75,024 | $50,000 |
| Dallas-Area Human Services | $11,955,843 | 184 | $64,977 | $40,000 |
| Health and Medicine, including medical research | $16,608,500 | 78 | $212,930 | $50,000 |
| Total Granted | $60,754,183 | 551 | $110,261 | $50,000 |