Texas · Private foundation
Hobby Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $441k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $107,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 71
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Hobby Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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 | 26 | $431k | 42% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $400k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 71 | $13M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $706k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 59 | $667k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 61 | $769k | 54% |
| FY2019 | 65 | $776k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 64 | $622k | 58% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Park Conservancy Inc | $661,000 | 8 | 5% |
| The University of Texas Law School Foundation | $403,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Menil Foundation Inc | $310,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $297,000 | 7 | 0% |
| St John's School | $231,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Houston Parks Board | $112,500 | 5 | 0% |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $107,500 | 2 | n/a |
| The Hobby Center Foundation | $105,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The University of Texas Foundation Inc | $101,250 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Virginia Alumni Association | $101,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 152 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 101 recipients with no EIN on record ($15M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Hobby Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 125 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 · Houston Endowment Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Sterling-Turner Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Strake Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Alvin & Lucy Owsley Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Hobby Family Foundation
- How much does Hobby Family Foundation give?
- Hobby Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $440,933 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 71 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Hobby Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (63%), Education (13%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are Hobby Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ($661k), The University of Texas Law School Foundation ($403k), Menil Foundation Inc ($310k).
- Does Hobby Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hobby 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 Hobby Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc, Houston Endowment Inc.
- Where is Hobby Family Foundation based?
- Hobby Family Foundation is based in TX.
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