Texas · Private foundation
Fenner Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $227k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $72,479
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Fenner Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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 | 15 | $227k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $167k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $140k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $139k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $173k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $148k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $121k | 8% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $110k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Episcopal Church of the Ascension | $482,479 | 9 | n/a |
| North Texas Food Bank | $180,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest | $170,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Austin Street Center | $100,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Citysquare | $97,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Our Friends Place | $40,000 | 1 | 3% |
| St Simon's After-School | $21,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Sunday Supper Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Youth 180 Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Take Me Home Pet Rescue Inc | $10,500 | 9 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Episcopal Church of the Ascension | $482,479 | 9 | n/a |
| North Texas Food Bank | $180,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest | $170,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Austin Street Center | $100,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Citysquare | $97,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Our Friends Place | $40,000 | 1 | 3% |
| St Simon's After-School | $21,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Sunday Supper Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Youth 180 Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Take Me Home Pet Rescue Inc | $10,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Grant Halliburton Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Insync Exotic Inc | $5,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Senior Citizens of Greater Dallas Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ok2bx Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Educational First Steps | $4,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Dallas Zoological Society | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($187k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fenner Family Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About Fenner Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does Fenner Family Charitable Foundation give?
- Fenner Family Charitable Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $227,479 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Fenner Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (51%), Food & Nutrition (13%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
- Who are Fenner Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Episcopal Church of the Ascension ($482k), North Texas Food Bank ($180k), Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest ($170k).
- Does Fenner Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fenner Family Charitable 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 Fenner Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Texas Instruments Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Dallas Foundation.
- Where is Fenner Family Charitable Foundation based?
- Fenner Family Charitable Foundation is based in TX.
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