Texas · Private foundation
Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 147
- Grants FY2025
- 127
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 91 to 127
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $43M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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 | 138 | $2.2M | 10% |
| FY2024 | 127 | $2.0M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 107 | $1.5M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 114 | $1.9M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 92 | $1.5M | 49% |
| FY2020 | 91 | $1.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc | $745,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Parks Youth Ranch Inc | $400,000 | 5 | 7% |
| South Texas College of Law Houston Inc | $350,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Diabetes Research Institute Foundation Inc | $300,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Texas Children's Hospital | $275,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Lsu Foundation | $225,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Curepsp Inc | $220,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Holocaust Museum Houston | $216,875 | 6 | 1% |
| Galveston Historical Foundation | $195,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Blessed Be Hope for Three Inc | $155,000 | 6 | 6% |
Show all 122 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 85 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 104 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: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The George Foundation · Strake Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Brown Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation
- How much does Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation give?
- Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation reported 147 grants totaling $2,187,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 91 and 127 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (27%), Education (15%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc ($745k), Parks Youth Ranch Inc ($400k), South Texas College of Law Houston Inc ($350k).
- Does Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company, The George Foundation.
- Where is Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation based?
- Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation is based in TX.
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