Texas · Private foundation
Harriet & Joe Foster Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $218k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $732k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Harriet & Joe Foster Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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 | 18 | $218k | 39% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $194k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $163k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $122k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $106k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $94k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $499k | 16% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $533k | 21% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area | $295,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Texas A&M Foundation | $102,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $97,500 | 9 | 0% |
| CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare | $65,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Houston Achievement Place | $65,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Home Run Hitters International Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 21% |
| Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council | $55,000 | 8 | 0% |
| San Jose Clinic | $55,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Down Syndrome Association of Houston Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 11% |
| Trees For Houston | $38,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harriet & Joe Foster 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: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Strake Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · John P McGovern Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Robert W Knox & Pearl Wallis Knox Charitable · Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund
How this is measured
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About Harriet & Joe Foster Foundation
- How much does Harriet & Joe Foster Foundation give?
- Harriet & Joe Foster Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $217,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Harriet & Joe Foster Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (43%), Education (23%), Human Services (19%).
- Who are Harriet & Joe Foster Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area ($295k), Texas A&M Foundation ($103k), The Houston Food Bank ($98k).
- Does Harriet & Joe Foster Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harriet & Joe Foster Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Harriet & Joe Foster Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, Strake Foundation.
- Where is Harriet & Joe Foster Foundation based?
- Harriet & Joe Foster Foundation is based in TX.
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