Texas · Public charity
Houston Marathon Foundation
Houston Marathon Foundation supports the advancement of running as an element of a balanced, healthy life in the Houston community and nationally.
- $189k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 74%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $75k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $444k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 74% of the organizations Houston Marathon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 73% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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 | 3 | $75k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $275k | 74% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $100k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $100k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $95k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $120k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $133k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Arbor School | $85,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Houston Area Parkinson Society | $85,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Fyims Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Houston Haven Ministry | $60,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Steel Magnolia Moms | $50,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Living Water International | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cancare Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Girls on the Run Greater Houston | $42,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Bo's Place | $35,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Dress for Success Houston | $35,000 | 2 | 1% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Houston Marathon 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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Baker Hughes Foundation · The Junior League of Houston Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Strake Foundation · Midway Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation · Sterling-Turner Foundation · Halliburton Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Houston Marathon Foundation
- How much does Houston Marathon Foundation give?
- Houston Marathon Foundation reported 3 itemized grants totaling $75,000, out of $189,265 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Houston Marathon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Human Services (16%), Recreation & Sports (10%).
- Who are Houston Marathon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Arbor School ($85k), Houston Area Parkinson Society ($85k), Fyims Inc ($75k).
- Does Houston Marathon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 74% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Houston Marathon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Baker Hughes Foundation.
- Where is Houston Marathon Foundation based?
- Houston Marathon Foundation is based in TX.
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