Texas · Public charity
Fort Bend Forward Inc
The mission of fort bend forward is to provide resources to meet the literary, cultural, educational and health needs of the greater fort bend community.
- $222k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $103k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $19,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $38,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 52
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $622k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Fort Bend Forward Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 6 | $103k | 83% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $81k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $94k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $21k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $114k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $121k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $119k | 17% |
| FY2017 | 52 | $189k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Houston Foundation | $101,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Texas A&M University 12th Man Foundation | $72,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The University of Texas Foundation Inc | $67,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Texas | $61,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Texas at Austin | $38,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Houston Community College Foundation | $34,250 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Houston | $24,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Houston | $21,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Texas A & M University | $19,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Texas State University | $17,500 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 41 grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($252k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fort Bend Forward Inc 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.
Open a dossier: The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation · The George Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · The Houston Food Bank · Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation · Madison Charitable Foundation Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Roberta K Randall Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Fort Bend Forward Inc
- How much does Fort Bend Forward Inc give?
- Fort Bend Forward Inc reported 6 itemized grants totaling $102,500, out of $221,750 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 52 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Fort Bend Forward Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (87%), Recreation & Sports (9%), Youth Development (1%).
- Who are Fort Bend Forward Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Houston Foundation ($102k), Texas A&M University 12th Man Foundation ($72k), The University of Texas Foundation Inc ($67k).
- Does Fort Bend Forward Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fort Bend Forward Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation, The George Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation.
- Where is Fort Bend Forward Inc based?
- Fort Bend Forward Inc is based in TX.
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