Texas · Private foundation
Horse Creek Trust
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $149k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2026
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 23
- FY2021 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 7
- Total assets, FY2026
- $3.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 14% of the organizations Horse Creek Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 21 | $146k | 5% |
| FY2025 | 21 | $156k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $144k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $115k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $87k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $132k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| McNay Art Museum | $163,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Glass-Glen Burnie Museum Inc | $104,000 | 6 | 1% |
| St Paul's School | $70,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Texas Biomedical Research Institute | $53,850 | 6 | 0% |
| Witte Museum | $47,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Washington and Lee University | $46,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Saint Marys Hall Inc | $36,800 | 6 | 0% |
| Duke University | $32,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Hotchkiss School | $25,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Horse Creek Trust supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Brown Foundation Inc · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · San Antonio Area Foundation · Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation · Amy Shelton McNutt Charitable Trust · Muriel F Siebert Foundation Inc · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Roger L and Laura D Zeller Charitable Foundation · The Jesse H and Susan R Oppenheimer Foundation · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324 · Mays Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Horse Creek Trust
- How much does Horse Creek Trust give?
- Horse Creek Trust reported 22 grants totaling $148,750 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 23 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
- What does Horse Creek Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (58%), Education (28%), Health (8%).
- Who are Horse Creek Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: McNay Art Museum ($163k), The Glass-Glen Burnie Museum Inc ($104k), St Paul's School ($70k).
- Does Horse Creek Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Horse Creek Trust 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 Horse Creek Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Brown Foundation Inc, Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation, Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992.
- Where is Horse Creek Trust based?
- Horse Creek Trust is based in TX.
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