Texas · Private foundation
Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $14M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 58
- Grants FY2024
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $8,093,300
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 46
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $199M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 53 | $14M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $13M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $12M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $12M | 41% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $12M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor College of Medicine | $38,096,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Museum of Fine Arts Houston | $4,800,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Houston Symphony Society | $1,200,000 | 3 | 2% |
| St Mary's University | $1,000,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Texas A&M Foundation | $600,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Somebody Cares America Inc | $575,000 | 5 | 33% |
| Southwestern University | $575,000 | 5 | 0% |
| River Oaks Chamber Orchestra | $375,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Episcopal High School | $334,800 | 5 | n/a |
| St Christophers Episcopal Church | $308,500 | 5 | n/a |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($10M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Sterling-Turner Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Powell Foundation · J Squared Family Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation with peer funders
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About Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation
- How much does Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation give?
- Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation reported 58 grants totaling $14,000,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 46 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (70%), Arts & Culture (12%), Education (10%).
- Who are Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Baylor College of Medicine ($38M), The Museum of Fine Arts Houston ($4.8M), Houston Symphony Society ($1.2M).
- Does Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Strake Foundation, The Elkins Foundation.
- Where is Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation based?
- Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation is based in TX.
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