Texas · Private foundation
Bruce and Pamela Earthman 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.
- $32k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $30k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $12,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 8
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $829k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Bruce and Pamela Earthman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 6 | $30k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $34k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $25k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $17k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $10k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $21k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Ballet Foundation | $76,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of St Thomas | $20,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Victory Houston Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Houston Museum of Natural Science | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| First Liberty Institute | $4,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Battleship Texas Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| St Thomas High School | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($12k), not named here.
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
Compare Bruce and Pamela Earthman Foundation with peer funders
About Bruce and Pamela Earthman Foundation
- How much does Bruce and Pamela Earthman Foundation give?
- Bruce and Pamela Earthman Foundation reported 6 itemized grants totaling $30,000, out of $32,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Bruce and Pamela Earthman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (43%), Education (12%), Health (5%).
- Who are Bruce and Pamela Earthman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Houston Ballet Foundation ($76k), University of St Thomas ($21k), Victory Houston Inc ($10k).
- Does Bruce and Pamela Earthman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bruce and Pamela Earthman 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 Bruce and Pamela Earthman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Bruce and Pamela Earthman Foundation based?
- Bruce and Pamela Earthman Foundation is based in TX.
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