Texas · Private foundation
Directors Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2024
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $762,209
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 31
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $283k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 26% of the organizations Directors Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $299k 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 | 27 | $1.9M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $1.9M | 26% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $1.4M | 15% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $923k | 74% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $817k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abilene Youth Sports Authority | $2,080,709 | 4 | 68% |
| Beltway Park Baptist Church | $928,000 | 4 | n/a |
| All Kind Animal Initiative | $400,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Pregnancy Resources of Abilene Inc | $208,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Hendrick Home for Children | $200,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Big Country Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc | $137,208 | 5 | 3% |
| Hendrick Hospice Care | $130,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Healing Hearts Connection | $100,000 | 4 | 16% |
| Hardin-Simmons University | $90,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Young Men's Christian Association | $75,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Directors Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 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: Community Foundation of Abilene · Barber Foundation · Shelton Family Foundation · Dian Graves Owen Foundation · Greathouse Foundation · The Massey Family Charitable Trust · The Legett Foundation · Kickapoo Springs Foundation · Joe Davis Foundation - Defined · Food Bank of West Central Texas · The Karakin Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation
How this is measured
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About Directors Foundation
- How much does Directors Foundation give?
- Directors Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $1,964,319 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Directors Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (37%), Religion (22%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Directors Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Abilene Youth Sports Authority ($2.1M), Beltway Park Baptist Church ($928k), All Kind Animal Initiative ($400k).
- Does Directors Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Directors Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Directors Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Abilene, Barber Foundation, Shelton Family Foundation.
- Where is Directors Foundation based?
- Directors Foundation is based in TX.
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