South Dakota · Private foundation
Houston Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2024
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 49
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $58M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Houston Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $554k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 43 | $2.7M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $4.1M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $3.3M | 67% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $566k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $2.6M | 44% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $398k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food in Need of Distribution Inc | $2,305,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Palm Springs Air Museum Inc | $1,514,732 | 6 | 8% |
| Onefuture Coachella Valley | $925,000 | 3 | 13% |
| University of Washington Foundation | $700,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Vancouver Foundation | $693,800 | 6 | 18% |
| Eisenhower Medical Center | $668,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Palm Springs International Film Society | $450,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Jewish Family Service of the Desert | $425,000 | 3 | 7% |
| DAP Health Inc | $390,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Desert Arc | $350,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 65 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Houston Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 62 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: Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc · Inland Empire Community Foundation · The Champions Volunteer Foundation · The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation · HN and Frances C Berger Foundation · The Auen Foundation · Regional Access Project Foundation · Anderson Childrens Foundation · The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation · Desert Community Foundation · Impact Through Golf Foundation · Charity Works
How this is measured
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About Houston Family Foundation
- How much does Houston Family Foundation give?
- Houston Family Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $2,701,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 49 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Houston Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are Houston Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Food in Need of Distribution Inc ($2.3M), Palm Springs Air Museum Inc ($1.5M), Onefuture Coachella Valley ($925k).
- Does Houston Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Houston 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 Houston Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc, Inland Empire Community Foundation, The Champions Volunteer Foundation.
- Where is Houston Family Foundation based?
- Houston Family Foundation is based in SD.
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