Texas · Private foundation
Arnold 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.
- $396k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 71
- Grants FY2025
- 68
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 69
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Arnold Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 71 | $397k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 68 | $382k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 69 | $394k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 64 | $304k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 57 | $247k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $248k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 64 | $299k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 67 | $228k | 4% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foundation Communities Inc | $237,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Central Texas Food Bank Inc | $231,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Volunteer Healthcare Clinic Inc | $140,000 | 8 | 3% |
| The Safe Alliance | $138,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $83,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $65,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Project H O P E Inc | $61,000 | 9 | n/a |
| The Settlement Club | $57,800 | 9 | 0% |
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | $45,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Family Eldercare Inc | $44,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 69 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($988k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Arnold 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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · St David's Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · The Moody Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · Better Business Bureau · Rwh Foundation · Donald D Hammill Foundation · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800
How this is measured
About Arnold Foundation
- How much does Arnold Foundation give?
- Arnold Foundation reported 71 grants totaling $396,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 69 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Arnold Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Housing & Shelter (13%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
- Who are Arnold Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Foundation Communities Inc ($237k), Central Texas Food Bank Inc ($232k), Volunteer Healthcare Clinic Inc ($140k).
- Does Arnold Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Arnold 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 Arnold Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, St David's Foundation, United Way for Greater Austin.
- Where is Arnold Foundation based?
- Arnold Foundation is based in TX.
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