Texas · Private foundation
Dan L Duncan 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.
- $40M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 79
- Grants FY2024
- 64
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
50% of Dan L Duncan Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Greater Houston Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 63 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $19,759,772
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 64
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $701M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Dan L Duncan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M 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 | 78 | $20M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 64 | $20M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 54 | $20M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $17M | 23% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $15M | 42% |
| FY2018 | 38 | $3.2M | 26% |
| FY2017 | 43 | $11M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Texas Health Science Center Houston | $11,714,077 | 6 | n/a |
| Houston Museum of Natural Science | $11,036,896 | 7 | 5% |
| Houston Zoo Inc | $7,458,070 | 7 | 2% |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $3,806,443 | 6 | 0% |
| Camp Aranzazu Foundation | $3,510,000 | 3 | 14% |
| Galveston Bay Foundation Inc | $3,400,000 | 5 | 13% |
| William Marsh Rice University | $2,925,008 | 6 | 0% |
| Yellowstone Academy Inc Dba Yellowstone Schools | $2,729,000 | 3 | 15% |
| Memorial Hermann Foundation | $2,650,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Houston Arboretum & Nature Center | $2,650,000 | 5 | 31% |
Show all 118 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($17M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dan L Duncan Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 104 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 · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Strake Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Baker Hughes Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Houston Endowment Inc · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Houston Petset
How this is measured
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About Dan L Duncan Foundation
- How much does Dan L Duncan Foundation give?
- Dan L Duncan Foundation reported 79 grants totaling $39,519,544 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 64 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Dan L Duncan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (51%), Education (14%), Health (11%).
- Who are Dan L Duncan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Texas Health Science Center Houston ($12M), Houston Museum of Natural Science ($11M), Houston Zoo Inc ($7.5M).
- Does Dan L Duncan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dan L Duncan 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 Dan L Duncan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc.
- Where is Dan L Duncan Foundation based?
- Dan L Duncan Foundation is based in TX.
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