Texas · Private foundation
Gordon a Cain Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 52
- Grants FY2024
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 40 to 46
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $69M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Gordon a Cain Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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 | $2.8M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $2.5M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $1.3M | 9% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $990k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $977k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Infantry Museum Foundationinc | $2,500,000 | 5 | 14% |
| The Museum of Fine Arts Houston | $1,049,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Houston Museum of Natural Science | $1,031,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Alley Theatre | $680,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Media Research Center | $325,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Rector Wardens & Vestrymen of St Matthews Parish | $270,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Houston Botanic Garden | $258,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research | $195,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Good Samaritan Foundation of Texas Inc | $160,000 | 5 | 6% |
| National Rifle Association of America | $145,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 52 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($547k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gordon a Cain 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.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · MD Anderson Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Strake Foundation · Alvin & Lucy Owsley Foundation · Mechia Foundation
How this is measured
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About Gordon a Cain Foundation
- How much does Gordon a Cain Foundation give?
- Gordon a Cain Foundation reported 52 grants totaling $2,822,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 46 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Gordon a Cain Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (57%), Science & Tech (12%), Civil Rights (5%).
- Who are Gordon a Cain Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: National Infantry Museum Foundationinc ($2.5M), The Museum of Fine Arts Houston ($1.0M), Houston Museum of Natural Science ($1.0M).
- Does Gordon a Cain Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gordon a Cain Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gordon a Cain Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, John P McGovern Foundation.
- Where is Gordon a Cain Foundation based?
- Gordon a Cain Foundation is based in TX.
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