How much does Fant Foundation give?

Fant Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $2,727,333 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

What does Fant Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (55%), Human Services (17%), Housing & Shelter (9%).

Who are Fant Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Houston's Charity for Children Inc ($2.2M), Upbring ($687k), United Way of Greater Houston ($200k).

Does Fant 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 Fant Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.

Where is Fant Foundation based?

Fant Foundation is based in TX.

Foundation Dossiers

Texas · Private foundation

Fant 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.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 10
Grants FY2024: 9
Organizations funded FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $150,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $1,700,000
States reached, FY2024: 4
Total assets, FY2024: $33M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Community Improvement$2.2MHuman Services$697kHousing & Shelter$350kPhilanthropy$230kHealth$185kEnvironment$100kInternational$100kPublic Benefit$85kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Houston's Charity for Children Inc	$2,200,000	2	31%
Upbring	$686,666	2	n/a
United Way of Greater Houston	$200,000	1	0%
The Other Ones Foundation	$150,000	1	1%
Baylor College of Medicine	$100,000	1	0%
Trees For Houston	$100,000	1	4%
Power for Parkinsons	$50,000	1	10%
Wounded Warrior Outdoors Inc	$50,000	1	9%
American Diabetes Association	$25,000	1	0%
Sojourn Landing DBA The Landing	$10,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($339k), not named here.

Fant Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Greater Houston Community FoundationTX12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Fant Foundation

How much does Fant Foundation give?: Fant Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $2,727,333 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Fant Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (55%), Human Services (17%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
Who are Fant Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Houston's Charity for Children Inc ($2.2M), Upbring ($687k), United Way of Greater Houston ($200k).
Does Fant 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 Fant Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
Where is Fant Foundation based?: Fant Foundation is based in TX.