Texas · Private foundation
Hood-Barrow 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.
- $700k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 64%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 64% of the organizations Hood-Barrow Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $426k 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 | 29 | $700k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $700k | 64% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $120k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $120k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $120k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $120k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $120k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $120k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hope Housing Inc | $155,000 | 7 | 1% |
| St Francis Episcopal Church | $150,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Hill Country Montessori School Inc | $103,500 | 5 | 4% |
| National Jewish Health | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Francis Episcopal School | $94,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Zoological Society of San Diego | $83,000 | 4 | 0% |
| San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association | $59,000 | 8 | 1% |
| The Methodist Hospital Foundation | $58,750 | 7 | 0% |
| High Line Canal Conservancy | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Park Horse Project | $40,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 57 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($697k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hood-Barrow 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 · The Elkins Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · The Sarofim Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Strake Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Powell Foundation
How this is measured
About Hood-Barrow Foundation
- How much does Hood-Barrow Foundation give?
- Hood-Barrow Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $700,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Hood-Barrow Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Health (20%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are Hood-Barrow Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: New Hope Housing Inc ($155k), St Francis Episcopal Church ($150k), Hill Country Montessori School Inc ($104k).
- Does Hood-Barrow Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hood-Barrow 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 Hood-Barrow Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Elkins Foundation, MD Anderson Foundation.
- Where is Hood-Barrow Foundation based?
- Hood-Barrow Foundation is based in TX.
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