Texas · Private foundation
Astros Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 88
- Grants FY2024
- 100
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 72%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 63 to 114
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $25M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 72% of the organizations Astros Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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 | 87 | $2.5M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 100 | $2.1M | 72% |
| FY2022 | 114 | $4.5M | 90% |
| FY2021 | 63 | $1.6M | 76% |
| FY2020 | 83 | $6.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Houston | $3,423,583 | 1 | n/a |
| Hermann Park Conservancy | $1,512,950 | 2 | 8% |
| New Hope Housing Inc | $1,255,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Avondale House Inc | $400,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Texas Medical Center | $400,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Sunshine Kids Foundation | $400,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Houston Area Women's Center | $371,129 | 3 | 1% |
| Bread of Life Inc | $339,083 | 2 | 2% |
| Texas Children's Hospital | $325,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Precinct2gether Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 20% |
Show all 209 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 105 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Astros Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 194 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Texas Council on Family Violence Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · Houston Endowment Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Texas Association Against Sexual Assault Inc · The Methodist Hospital · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Houston Food Bank · The Brown Foundation Inc · Baker Hughes Foundation
How this is measured
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About Astros Foundation
- How much does Astros Foundation give?
- Astros Foundation reported 88 grants totaling $2,582,549 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 63 and 114 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Astros Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (20%), Health (18%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are Astros Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: City of Houston ($3.4M), Hermann Park Conservancy ($1.5M), New Hope Housing Inc ($1.3M).
- Does Astros Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 72% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Astros 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 Astros Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Texas Council on Family Violence Inc, Greater Houston Community Foundation, United Way of Greater Houston.
- Where is Astros Foundation based?
- Astros Foundation is based in TX.
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