Texas · Private foundation
Garver Black Hilyard Family 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.
- $2.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 52
- Grants FY2024
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $435,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 52
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $38M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Garver Black Hilyard Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k 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 | 51 | $2.4M | 8% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $2.3M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $2.5M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $2.2M | 26% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $2.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Botanic Garden | $3,107,550 | 5 | 19% |
| Buffalo Bayou Partnership Inc | $1,562,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Houston Parks Board | $900,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Texans for Clean Water Inc | $567,337 | 3 | 87% |
| Texas A&M Foundation | $543,039 | 5 | 0% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $400,000 | 5 | 0% |
| New Hope Housing Inc | $305,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Methodist Hospital Foundation | $300,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Keep Texas Beautiful Inc | $262,500 | 4 | 9% |
| Bayou Preservation Association Inc | $250,000 | 5 | 15% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Garver Black Hilyard Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Strake Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Shell USA Company Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · John P McGovern Foundation · Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation · The Tapeats Fund
How this is measured
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About Garver Black Hilyard Family Foundation
- How much does Garver Black Hilyard Family Foundation give?
- Garver Black Hilyard Family Foundation reported 52 grants totaling $2,442,790 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 52 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Garver Black Hilyard Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (44%), Community Improvement (14%), Recreation & Sports (10%).
- Who are Garver Black Hilyard Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Houston Botanic Garden ($3.1M), Buffalo Bayou Partnership Inc ($1.6M), Houston Parks Board ($900k).
- Does Garver Black Hilyard Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Garver Black Hilyard Family 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 Garver Black Hilyard Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Garver Black Hilyard Family Foundation based?
- Garver Black Hilyard Family Foundation is based in TX.
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