Texas · Private foundation
Alice Gist Dunaway Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $220k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 24
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $351k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Alice Gist Dunaway Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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 | 19 | $220k | 63% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $30k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $190k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $18k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $330 | 100% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $302k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $20k | 17% |
| FY2017 | 11 | $20k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Launch Global | $69,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $61,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Fellowship Bible Church | $47,500 | 5 | n/a |
| The Austin Stone Community Church | $38,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rise Resource Consortium | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Team Kiwi Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 12% |
| Meals on Wheels | $26,500 | 5 | 8% |
| Austin Disaster Relief Network | $23,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Downtown Women's Center Inc | $16,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Houston Area Women's Center | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Launch Global | $69,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $61,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Fellowship Bible Church | $47,500 | 5 | n/a |
| The Austin Stone Community Church | $38,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rise Resource Consortium | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Team Kiwi Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 12% |
| Meals on Wheels | $26,500 | 5 | 8% |
| Austin Disaster Relief Network | $23,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Downtown Women's Center Inc | $16,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Houston Area Women's Center | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Hope Heals Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| High Plains Food Bank | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Flying Horse Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Casa of the South Plains Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Faith City Inc | $10,700 | 4 | 0% |
| Tessa | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Alpine Autism Center | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Eveline's Sunshine Cottage | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Texsar Inc | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City Church | $7,000 | 3 | n/a |
| His Fathers Heart Ministries | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Jewish Health | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Texas Bow | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| CASA of the Pikes Peak Region | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Martha's Home Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($296k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alice Gist Dunaway 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: Xcel Energy Foundation · William & Louise Mullins Foundation · Merrick Foundation · Amarillo Business Foundation · The United Way Inc · Mays Foundation · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · The Ware Foundation · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation · Mary E Bivins Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation
How this is measured
About Alice Gist Dunaway Foundation
- How much does Alice Gist Dunaway Foundation give?
- Alice Gist Dunaway Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $219,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Alice Gist Dunaway Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (34%), Food & Nutrition (24%), Human Services (17%).
- Who are Alice Gist Dunaway Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Launch Global ($69k), The Houston Food Bank ($61k), Fellowship Bible Church ($48k).
- Does Alice Gist Dunaway Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Alice Gist Dunaway Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Alice Gist Dunaway Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Xcel Energy Foundation, William & Louise Mullins Foundation, Merrick Foundation.
- Where is Alice Gist Dunaway Foundation based?
- Alice Gist Dunaway Foundation is based in TX.
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