Texas · Private foundation
BetsWest 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.
- $93k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2024
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 29
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations BetsWest Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 15 | $93k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $110k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $359k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $373k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $120k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $103k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $109k | 4% |
| FY2017 | 28 | $116k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blinn College Foundation | $500,000 | 2 | 12% |
| Camp For All Foundation | $192,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Washington County Inc | $80,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Brenham Heritage Museum | $45,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Washington on the Brazos Historical Foundation | $39,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Animal Friends of Washington County | $29,753 | 8 | 1% |
| Oregon Humane Society | $29,000 | 5 | 0% |
| True Blue Animal Rescue | $27,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Denver Dumb Friends League | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Oregon Museum of Science and Industry | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($224k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget BetsWest 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: The Bob & Cathleen Davis Foundation · Kolkhorst Family Foundation · Christ Lutheran Foundation Inc · The Andras Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About BetsWest Foundation
- How much does BetsWest Foundation give?
- BetsWest Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $92,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does BetsWest Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (36%), Youth Development (20%), Animals (17%).
- Who are BetsWest Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Blinn College Foundation ($500k), Camp For All Foundation ($193k), Boys & Girls Club of Washington County Inc ($80k).
- Does BetsWest Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does BetsWest 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 BetsWest Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bob & Cathleen Davis Foundation, Kolkhorst Family Foundation, Christ Lutheran Foundation Inc.
- Where is BetsWest Foundation based?
- BetsWest Foundation is based in TX.
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