Texas · Private foundation
Discovery 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.
- $637k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2024
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $40,285
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $66,265
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 17
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 53% of the organizations Discovery Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $328k 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 | 16 | $637k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $610k | 53% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $791k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $518k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $591k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $563k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $599k | 40% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $735k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austin College | $703,083 | 8 | 0% |
| Baylor Health Care System Foundation | $626,715 | 6 | 0% |
| Irving Healthcare Foundation | $564,827 | 5 | 5% |
| New Friends New Life | $370,231 | 7 | 3% |
| Baylor University | $245,066 | 6 | 0% |
| Texas A&M Foundation | $217,196 | 3 | 0% |
| Helps International | $200,000 | 3 | 2% |
| The Family Place | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
| North Dallas Shared Ministries Inc | $145,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Lifesavers Foundation | $130,010 | 3 | 7% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austin College | $703,083 | 8 | 0% |
| Baylor Health Care System Foundation | $626,715 | 6 | 0% |
| Irving Healthcare Foundation | $564,827 | 5 | 5% |
| New Friends New Life | $370,231 | 7 | 3% |
| Baylor University | $245,066 | 6 | 0% |
| Texas A&M Foundation | $217,196 | 3 | 0% |
| Helps International | $200,000 | 3 | 2% |
| The Family Place | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
| North Dallas Shared Ministries Inc | $145,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Lifesavers Foundation | $130,010 | 3 | 7% |
| The Magdalen House | $85,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Los Barrios Unidos Community Clinic Inc | $80,010 | 2 | 0% |
| Salood inc | $45,000 | 2 | 34% |
| A Soldiers Child Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Shared Christian Ministries | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Twelfth Step Ministry Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Clayton Dabney for Kids With Cancer | $32,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Simply Grace | $27,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Hope Supply Co | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wings of a Butterfly | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Discovery Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Reuter Family Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Discovery Foundation
- How much does Discovery Foundation give?
- Discovery Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $636,522 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Discovery Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (47%), Education (27%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Discovery Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Austin College ($703k), Baylor Health Care System Foundation ($627k), Irving Healthcare Foundation ($565k).
- Does Discovery Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Discovery 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 Discovery Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, W P & Bulah Luse Foundation, Hillcrest Foundation.
- Where is Discovery Foundation based?
- Discovery Foundation is based in TX.
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