Texas · Private foundation
Booker Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $619k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $406,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Booker Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 | 12 | $619k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $351k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $289k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $290k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $332k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $210k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $224k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $165k | 20% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Golf Association Youth Program Inc dba First Tee of Greater Houston | $1,038,000 | 9 | 16% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $155,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Texas Golf Hall of Fame & Museum (Audit) | $114,500 | 7 | 44% |
| Luke's Wings | $35,000 | 3 | 1% |
| St Joseph Center | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Share Our Strength | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Seymour Pinkinc | $17,000 | 4 | 4% |
| The Pulmonary Hypertension Association Inc | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Impact Melanoma Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bravo Colorado at Beaver Creek-Vail Inc Dba Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 16 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Golf Association Youth Program Inc dba First Tee of Greater Houston | $1,038,000 | 9 | 16% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $155,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Texas Golf Hall of Fame & Museum (Audit) | $114,500 | 7 | 44% |
| Luke's Wings | $35,000 | 3 | 1% |
| St Joseph Center | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Share Our Strength | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Seymour Pinkinc | $17,000 | 4 | 4% |
| The Pulmonary Hypertension Association Inc | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Impact Melanoma Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bravo Colorado at Beaver Creek-Vail Inc Dba Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Memorial Park Conservancy Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Vail Jazz Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Houston Golf Association Inc | $7,250 | 3 | 5% |
| Navy Seal Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The John Cooper School | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Cancare Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Booker Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 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: Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good
How this is measured
About Booker Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Booker Family Foundation Inc give?
- Booker Family Foundation Inc reported 12 grants totaling $618,880 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Booker Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (37%), Education (26%), Recreation & Sports (11%).
- Who are Booker Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Houston Golf Association Youth Program Inc dba First Tee of Greater Houston ($1.0M), The Houston Food Bank ($155k), Texas Golf Hall of Fame & Museum (Audit) ($115k).
- Does Booker Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Booker Family Foundation Inc 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 Booker Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Ge Aerospace Foundation.
- Where is Booker Family Foundation Inc based?
- Booker Family Foundation Inc is based in TX.
Play a game based on Booker Family’s filings →