Texas · Private foundation
Hildebrand Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $14M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 122
- Grants FY2025
- 119
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,650,501
- Organizations funded a year
- 78 to 119
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $134M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Hildebrand Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.5M 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 | 121 | $14M | 12% |
| FY2024 | 119 | $7.4M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 104 | $7.6M | 39% |
| FY2022 | 91 | $14M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 78 | $13M | 23% |
| FY2020 | 103 | $16M | 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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Episcopal High School Endowment Fund | $4,000,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The National World War II Museum Inc | $1,800,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Hermann Park Conservancy | $1,375,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Star of Hope Mission | $1,315,000 | 6 | 2% |
| University of Texas | $1,250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of St Thomas | $1,105,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Houston Parks Board | $1,000,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Houston Police Foundation | $606,166 | 4 | 6% |
| Glenwood Cemetery Inc | $600,000 | 3 | 2% |
| St Dominic Village | $500,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 148 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 91 recipients with no EIN on record ($48M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hildebrand 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 · Strake Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Shell USA Company Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · The Medallion Foundation Inc · Sterling-Turner Foundation
How this is measured
About Hildebrand Foundation
- How much does Hildebrand Foundation give?
- Hildebrand Foundation reported 122 grants totaling $13,958,123 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 78 and 119 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Hildebrand Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%), Philanthropy (19%), Religion (8%).
- Who are Hildebrand Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Episcopal High School Endowment Fund ($4.0M), The National World War II Museum Inc ($1.8M), Hermann Park Conservancy ($1.4M).
- Does Hildebrand Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hildebrand Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hildebrand Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Strake Foundation, Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company.
- Where is Hildebrand Foundation based?
- Hildebrand Foundation is based in TX.
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