Texas · Private foundation
Belmont 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.
- $235k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2024
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $18,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $95,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 26
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $50k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Belmont Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 7 | $207k | 57% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $3k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $84k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $193k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $148k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $62k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $700k | 22% |
| FY2017 | 26 | $912k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lyric Stage Inc | $650,000 | 5 | 31% |
| Irving Schools Foundation | $328,000 | 4 | 15% |
| Texas A&M University 12th Man Foundation | $253,080 | 5 | 0% |
| The Onestar Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Dallas | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Irving Cares Inc | $68,750 | 2 | 2% |
| Irving Police Athletic League | $50,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Brighter Tomorrows Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Catholic Foundation | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Irving Family Advocacy Cntr Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 8% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lyric Stage Inc | $650,000 | 5 | 31% |
| Irving Schools Foundation | $328,000 | 4 | 15% |
| Texas A&M University 12th Man Foundation | $253,080 | 5 | 0% |
| The Onestar Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Dallas | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Irving Cares Inc | $68,750 | 2 | 2% |
| Irving Police Athletic League | $50,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Brighter Tomorrows Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Catholic Foundation | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Irving Family Advocacy Cntr Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 8% |
| The Independence Fund Inc | $32,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Mary's Cathedral School | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Texas A&M Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Teaching Trust | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Church of the Incarnation | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Carrollton-Farmers Branch Isd | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Pat Mathers Scholarship Foundation | $15,000 | 3 | 13% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Good Shepherd Catholic School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Durham Academy Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Lifespace Foundation | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Great Flag Caper | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Edgemere Chapel | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Dallas Morning News Charities | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($427k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Belmont Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · The Aileen and Jack Pratt Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About Belmont Foundation
- How much does Belmont Foundation give?
- Belmont Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $235,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Belmont Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (28%), Education (26%), Recreation & Sports (15%).
- Who are Belmont Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Lyric Stage Inc ($650k), Irving Schools Foundation ($328k), Texas A&M University 12th Man Foundation ($253k).
- Does Belmont Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Belmont 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 Belmont Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Dallas Foundation, The Aileen and Jack Pratt Foundation.
- Where is Belmont Foundation based?
- Belmont Foundation is based in TX.
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