· Private foundation
Estill Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $215k
Largely a single collection: about 94% of reported assets are Mineral Interests.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COASTAL BEND FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE GOLDEN CRESCENT | $30,000 |
| TEXSAR | $25,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN RESCUE MISSION | $20,000 |
| CORPUS CHRISTI PREGNANCY CENTER | $20,000 |
| CORPUS CHRISTI HOPE HOUSE | $20,000 |
| COMPASSIONATE CARE | $15,000 |
| FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE | $15,000 |
| SCOUTING AMERICA - SO TEX COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| COASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL BEND | $10,000 |
| CAMP ARANZAZU | $10,000 |
| CORPUS CHRISTI EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CORPUS CHRISTI SAILING FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ART MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CBCOASTAL BEND FOOD BANK7× · 2018–2025 · $258k · revenue +47%
- TCTHE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF VICTORIA DBA FOOD BANK OF THE GOLDEN CRESCENT6× · 2018–2025 · $243k · revenue +97%
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL BEND INC6× · 2020–2025 · $133k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLSone grant, 2023 · $30k
- RWROCKPORT WARRIORS UNITEDone grant, 2020 · $25k
- TMTIMON'S MINISTRIESone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +12%
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.
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.
To provide service to people in need and to address social ills that undermind the dignity of the person. the ultimate goal of catholic charities is to create positive life changing opportunities for those in need without regard to color,…
The united corpus christi chamber of commerce is a member-driven organization whose principal mission is to foster business growth by advocating business issues, enhancing the business climate, and providing services to its members.
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
To provide emergency/supplemental assistance in the form of food, clothing, household items, utility, rent and mortgage aid to people in need in the waco community.also provides case management assistance to people wanting to become…
To provide a home away from home for the thousands of foreign and domestic seafarers who call on the port of corpus christi.
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
Ywca corpus christi is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
To serve as a clerainghouse for salvage and surplus food that otherwise might be wasted.
Texas Christian Foundations mission is to mobilize resources by inspiring biblical generosity and educating Texans on ways their generosity can impact their community, Texas and the world.
Rescue neglected, unwanted homeless dogs and cats nurture and provide shelter until they are placed with a forever family strive to reduce animal overpopulation prevent cruelty to animals teach responsible pet ownership through an outreach…
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COASTAL BEND FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF VICTORIA DBA FOOD BANK OF THE GOLDEN CRESCENT ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL BEND INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds COASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHER TERESA SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Camp Aranzazu Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT WARRIORS UNITED ↗
- Who funds TEXSAR INC ↗
- Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TIMON'S MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI SAILING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATTERY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds RISE SCHOOL OF CORPUS CHRISTI ↗
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: Ed Rachal Foundation · Coastal Bend Community Foundation · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · Behmann Brothers Foundation · Puente de Maravillas Foundation · Allen Lovelace Moore and Blanche Davis Moore Foundation · Laverne & Thomas Howell Foundation · Susser Family Foundation · United Way of the Coastal Bend Inc · Tres Grace Family Foundation · James R Dougherty Jr Foundation Inc · Gil and Dody Weaver Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Estill Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Estill Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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