Texas · Private foundation
Chance Comes Once Foundation
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.
- $32k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,037
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,061
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 19
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $441k
- 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 Chance Comes Once Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 19 | $30k | 37% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $22k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $20k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $23k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $22k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $15k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $15k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Africa New Life Ministries International | $63,750 | 7 | 0% |
| Pelotonu Inc | $6,725 | 6 | 0% |
| The Refuge for Dmst | $6,139 | 4 | 0% |
| Free Wheelchair Mission | $4,080 | 7 | 0% |
| Austin Zoo Inc | $4,032 | 7 | 0% |
| Foster Angels of Central Texas Foundation | $3,579 | 6 | 0% |
| The Women's Bakery Inc | $3,558 | 6 | 0% |
| Austin Pets Alive Inc | $3,115 | 5 | 0% |
| Austin Explore Inc | $2,604 | 4 | 0% |
| Shoal Creek Conservancy | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($23k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Chance Comes Once 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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Better Business Bureau · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · The Powell Foundation · St David's Foundation · Impact Austin Foundation · The Webber Family Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Moody Foundation · One Skye Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Chance Comes Once Foundation
- How much does Chance Comes Once Foundation give?
- Chance Comes Once Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $31,743 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 19 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Chance Comes Once Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (47%), Human Services (10%), Community Improvement (10%).
- Who are Chance Comes Once Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Africa New Life Ministries International ($64k), Pelotonu Inc ($7k), The Refuge for Dmst ($6k).
- Does Chance Comes Once Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Chance Comes Once 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 Chance Comes Once Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, Shield-Ayres Foundation, Better Business Bureau.
- Where is Chance Comes Once Foundation based?
- Chance Comes Once Foundation is based in TX.
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