Texas · Private foundation
Huffington 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.
- $9.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2024
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,350,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 43
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $143M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations Huffington Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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 | 33 | $6.8M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $9.4M | 7% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $8.9M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $8.0M | 13% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $8.1M | 30% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $7.8M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Children's Hospital | $10,000,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $6,012,000 | 6 | 0% |
| William Marsh Rice University | $4,000,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Camp For All Foundation | $1,500,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Houston Area Women's Center | $1,010,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Houston's Amazing Place Inc | $1,000,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Harris County Hospital District Foundation | $1,000,000 | 3 | 8% |
| EMERGE Fellowship | $1,000,000 | 4 | 6% |
| The Madeira School | $1,000,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Houston Botanic Garden | $825,000 | 6 | 6% |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($14M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Huffington 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 · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Marek Family Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · The Methodist Hospital
How this is measured
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About Huffington Foundation
- How much does Huffington Foundation give?
- Huffington Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $9,139,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 43 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Huffington Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (41%), Education (26%), Environment (12%).
- Who are Huffington Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Texas Children's Hospital ($10M), Baylor College of Medicine ($6.0M), William Marsh Rice University ($4.0M).
- Does Huffington Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Huffington 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 Huffington Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Strake Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Huffington Foundation based?
- Huffington Foundation is based in TX.
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