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.

Discovery Foundation

Discovery Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$66k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$2.4MEducation$1.4MHuman Services$651kCrime & Legal$370kInternational$200kPhilanthropy$41kReligion$35k

02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k9 grants · $243k
$50k–250k7 grants · $394k

$40,285

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
AUSTIN COLLEGE	$66,265
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH	$60,000
TO CURE A ROSE	$57,000
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY LHSON	$55,472
BAYLOR SCOTT AND WHITE IRVING FOUNDATION	$55,000
THE MAGDALEN HOUSE	$50,000
HELPS INTERNATIONAL INC	$50,000
Individual grant recipient	$40,285
NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE	$40,000
A SOLDIERS CHILD FOUNDATION	$40,000
CHRIST FAMILY CLINIC	$30,000
NORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES	$30,000
SALOOD	$20,000
CLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER	$15,000
HOPE SUPPLY CO	$15,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $513k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.3M · 21 repeat orgs$746k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.3M

$691k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

Still filing today

71%

30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthEducationCrime & LegalInternationalPhilanthropyOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

AC
AUSTIN COLLEGE
8× · 2017–2024 · $703k · revenue +12%
BH
Baylor Health Care System Foundation
6× · 2017–2023 · $627k · revenue +80%
IH
Irving Healthcare Foundation
5× · 2017–2021 · $565k · revenue +10%

Funded once

BS
BAYLOR SCOTT AND WHITE HEALTH FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $250k
TA
TEXAS A&M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $180k
MC
MARY CROWLEY CANCER RESEARCH CENTERS
one grant, 2020 · $50k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Baylor University Medical Center