Texas · Public charity
Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc
The mission of the foundation for southeast texas shall be to make a positive difference in the quality of life in the area by encouraging philanthropic gifts and by assisting donors in achieving their charitable goals through the professional management and considered and caring distribution of such gifts
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 48
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 50
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $40M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M 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 | 42 | $1.0M | 45% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $4.1M | 41% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $2.4M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $483k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $591k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $582k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $252k | 42% |
| FY2018 | 50 | $1.6M | 66% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Children's Hospital | $2,000,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Memorial Hermann Foundation | $1,150,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The University of Texas System | $1,150,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Christus Health Southeast Texas Christus St Elizabeth Hospital | $1,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United Way of Beaumont & North Jefferson County | $655,739 | 9 | 7% |
| The 100 Club of Southeast Texas | $500,000 | 2 | 72% |
| Port Arthur Education Foundation Inc | $403,254 | 2 | 63% |
| HOW Center | $356,543 | 1 | 32% |
| First Presbyterian Church | $317,523 | 9 | n/a |
| Lamar University Foundation Inc | $284,845 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 123 grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($172k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 76 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: Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation · Young Mens Business League of Beaumont · United Way of Beaumont & North Jefferson County · Greater Houston Community Foundation · United Way of Mid & South Jefferson Co · He and Kate Dishman Charitable Trust · B a and E W Steinhagen Benevolent Trust · H H and Edna Houseman Charitable Tr · Penland Foundation · Mechia Foundation · Christus Health · Entergy Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc
- How much does Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc give?
- Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc reported 48 itemized grants totaling $1,064,750, out of $1,699,216 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (48%), Public Safety & Disaster (17%), Philanthropy (8%).
- Who are Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Texas Children's Hospital ($2.0M), Memorial Hermann Foundation ($1.1M), The University of Texas System ($1.1M).
- Does Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation, Young Mens Business League of Beaumont, United Way of Beaumont & North Jefferson County.
- Where is Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc based?
- Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc is based in TX.
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