Texas · Private foundation
Cheniere 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.
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 119
- Grants FY2024
- 88
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $180,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 62 to 90
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $86k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Cheniere Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $980k 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 | 107 | $3.0M | 66% |
| FY2023 | 88 | $3.2M | 40% |
| FY2022 | 90 | $2.7M | 57% |
| FY2021 | 75 | $1.9M | 65% |
| FY2020 | 62 | $1.9M | 71% |
| FY2019 | 82 | $1.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thurgood Marshall College Fund | $683,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Houston Parks Board | $465,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program Inc | $400,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Port Arthur Education Foundation Inc | $352,500 | 5 | 13% |
| Coastal Bend Foundation Inc | $275,000 | 2 | 38% |
| Kids' Meals Inc | $266,351 | 6 | 1% |
| Benevolent Healthcare Foundation | $265,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Foundation | $264,950 | 3 | 4% |
| Friends of the Texas Historical Commission Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas | $250,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 155 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 177 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cheniere Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 137 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: Coastal Bend Community Foundation · Behmann Brothers Foundation · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · United Way of the Coastal Bend Inc · Ed Rachal Foundation · Baker Hughes Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Methodist Hospital
How this is measured
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About Cheniere Foundation
- How much does Cheniere Foundation give?
- Cheniere Foundation reported 119 grants totaling $2,989,654 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 62 and 90 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Cheniere Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (19%), Environment (14%), Public Safety & Disaster (11%).
- Who are Cheniere Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Thurgood Marshall College Fund ($683k), Houston Parks Board ($465k), Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program Inc ($400k).
- Does Cheniere Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cheniere 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 Cheniere Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coastal Bend Community Foundation, Behmann Brothers Foundation, The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation.
- Where is Cheniere Foundation based?
- Cheniere Foundation is based in TX.
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