Texas · Private foundation
Chesmar Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 65
- Grants FY2025
- 66
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 76%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,731
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $510,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 66
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $32M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 76% of the organizations Chesmar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 74% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M 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 | 65 | $3.7M | 58% |
| FY2024 | 66 | $4.3M | 76% |
| FY2023 | 58 | $1.8M | 57% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $321k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $162k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $90k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $93k | 61% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $74k | 74% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Harris Montgomery Community College District | $1,058,971 | 3 | 5% |
| Alamo Colleges Foundation Inc | $1,050,000 | 2 | 6% |
| New Hope Housing Inc | $500,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Dallas College Foundation Inc | $445,500 | 1 | n/a |
| San Jacinto Community College Foundation Inc | $302,683 | 1 | 5% |
| Wharton Co Jr College Foundation | $251,619 | 2 | 26% |
| Breakthrough Houston | $200,000 | 2 | 8% |
| CASA Child Advocates of Montgomery County Inc | $195,104 | 4 | 6% |
| HomeAid Austin Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Donorschooseorg | $111,725 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 60 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 195 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Chesmar Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Texas Foundation · The Woodforest Charitable Foundation · Astros Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · United Way of Greater Houston · Baker Hughes Foundation · The Arena Energy Foundation
How this is measured
About Chesmar Foundation
- How much does Chesmar Foundation give?
- Chesmar Foundation reported 65 grants totaling $3,656,061 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 66 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Chesmar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (66%), Housing & Shelter (16%), Health (5%).
- Who are Chesmar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: North Harris Montgomery Community College District ($1.1M), Alamo Colleges Foundation Inc ($1.1M), New Hope Housing Inc ($500k).
- Does Chesmar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 76% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Chesmar Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Chesmar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, Marek Family Foundation.
- Where is Chesmar Foundation based?
- Chesmar Foundation is based in TX.
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