Texas · Private foundation
Helmle-Shaw Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $226k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Helmle-Shaw Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 37 | $221k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $156k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $139k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $168k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $139k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $147k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $148k | 58% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $119k | 5% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Thomas Episcopal Church & School | $130,168 | 7 | n/a |
| William Marsh Rice University | $125,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Galveston Historical Foundation | $95,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Bo's Place | $87,750 | 9 | 1% |
| The Museum of Fine Arts Houston | $75,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Lake Fork Valley Conservancy | $55,500 | 5 | 16% |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Texas Children's Hospital | $35,500 | 8 | 0% |
| 1894 Inc | $29,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Southern Methodist University | $25,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($515k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Helmle-Shaw 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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund Inc · Strake Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About Helmle-Shaw Foundation
- How much does Helmle-Shaw Foundation give?
- Helmle-Shaw Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $226,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Helmle-Shaw Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Health (26%), Education (18%).
- Who are Helmle-Shaw Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Thomas Episcopal Church & School ($130k), William Marsh Rice University ($126k), Galveston Historical Foundation ($95k).
- Does Helmle-Shaw Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Helmle-Shaw Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Helmle-Shaw Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Helmle-Shaw Foundation based?
- Helmle-Shaw Foundation is based in TX.
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