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Community Foundation of Brazoria County
The charitable purpose of the Community Foundation of Brazoria County cfbc is to build permanent funds for the benefit of the community, to respond to change needs through effective grantmaking and to encourage philanthropy.
- $485k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 73%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $374k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $16,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $38,750
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 40
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 73% of the organizations Community Foundation of Brazoria County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $451k 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 | 22 | $374k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $637k | 73% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $450k | 49% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $285k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $267k | 52% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $300k | 63% |
| FY2017 | 21 | $255k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University Baptist Church | $125,475 | 4 | n/a |
| Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic School Incorporated | $119,300 | 4 | 3% |
| Brazosport College Foundation | $105,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Brazosport Cares | $101,950 | 6 | 3% |
| Adult Reading Center Inc | $81,500 | 5 | 5% |
| Salvation Army National Corp | $80,456 | 4 | n/a |
| Brazoria County Dream Center Inc | $64,238 | 4 | 1% |
| Special Olympics of Texas Inc | $63,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Brazoria County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $50,613 | 5 | 2% |
| The Rose | $45,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 71 grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($731k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Community Foundation of Brazoria County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 54 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: United Way of Brazoria County · Shell USA Company Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Houston Food Bank · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Tdecu Cares Foundation Inc · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Ancient Free & Accepted Masons of Texas · Epd Inc · Baker Hughes Foundation · Celanese Foundation
How this is measured
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About Community Foundation of Brazoria County
- How much does Community Foundation of Brazoria County give?
- Community Foundation of Brazoria County reported 22 itemized grants totaling $374,215, out of $485,498 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 40 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Community Foundation of Brazoria County fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (21%), Education (20%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are Community Foundation of Brazoria County's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University Baptist Church ($125k), Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic School Incorporated ($119k), Brazosport College Foundation ($106k).
- Does Community Foundation of Brazoria County fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 73% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation of Brazoria County?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Brazoria County, Shell USA Company Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Community Foundation of Brazoria County based?
- Community Foundation of Brazoria County is based in TX.
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