Texas · Private foundation
Effie and Wofford Cain Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $6.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 58
- Grants FY2025
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 46 to 52
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $109M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Effie and Wofford Cain Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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 | 54 | $6.0M | 33% |
| FY2024 | 46 | $5.1M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $5.5M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $6.1M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $5.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Methodist University | $1,150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Trinity Valley Community College Foundation | $300,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children | $281,088 | 5 | 0% |
| Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas | $250,000 | 1 | 2% |
| East Texas Arboretum and Botanical Society Inc | $210,000 | 4 | 16% |
| Good Shepherd Episcopal Church | $200,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Word of Honor Fund | $185,000 | 5 | 12% |
| Health Alliance for Austin Musicians | $150,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Seal Future Foundation Inc | $130,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Austin Classical Guitar Society | $115,000 | 2 | 4% |
Show all 75 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($23M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Effie and Wofford Cain Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 58 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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · East Texas Communities Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Better Business Bureau · Ginger Murchison Foundation · Athens Thrift Store Inc · St David's Foundation · Henderson County United Way · United Way for Greater Austin · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation
How this is measured
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About Effie and Wofford Cain Foundation
- How much does Effie and Wofford Cain Foundation give?
- Effie and Wofford Cain Foundation reported 58 grants totaling $6,027,910 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 52 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Effie and Wofford Cain Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (42%), Health (26%), Education (18%).
- Who are Effie and Wofford Cain Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Southern Methodist University ($1.1M), Trinity Valley Community College Foundation ($300k), Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children ($281k).
- Does Effie and Wofford Cain Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Effie and Wofford Cain Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Effie and Wofford Cain Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, East Texas Communities Foundation, The Moody Foundation.
- Where is Effie and Wofford Cain Foundation based?
- Effie and Wofford Cain Foundation is based in TX.
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