Texas · Private foundation
Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 73
- Grants FY2024
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $430,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 83
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $52M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k 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 | 73 | $3.2M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $2.9M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 76 | $3.4M | 36% |
| FY2021 | 83 | $3.3M | 54% |
| FY2020 | 55 | $2.9M | 64% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $2.8M | 60% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $991k | 79% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $441k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Biomedical Research Institute | $4,118,221 | 8 | 3% |
| The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc | $1,290,000 | 8 | 21% |
| University of the Incarnate Word | $1,179,488 | 5 | 0% |
| San Antonio Museum of Art | $724,000 | 8 | 2% |
| The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation | $600,000 | 4 | 11% |
| Texas Military Institute | $600,000 | 2 | n/a |
| San Antonio Zoological Society | $415,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The University of Texas Foundation Inc | $325,000 | 4 | 0% |
| San Antonio Food Bank | $295,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Trinity University | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 132 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Betty Stieren Kelso 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: San Antonio Area Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Mays Family Foundation · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324 · The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc
How this is measured
About Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation
- How much does Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation give?
- Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation reported 73 grants totaling $3,174,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 83 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (27%), Education (20%), Recreation & Sports (11%).
- Who are Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Texas Biomedical Research Institute ($4.1M), The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc ($1.3M), University of the Incarnate Word ($1.2M).
- Does Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992, Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation based?
- Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation is based in TX.
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