Texas · Private foundation
Jerry C Dearing 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.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2024
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 43
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $50M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Jerry C Dearing Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k 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 | 41 | $2.5M | 37% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $2.3M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $3.0M | 37% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $2.9M | 33% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $3.2M | 40% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $2.1M | 51% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $3.5M | 81% |
| FY2017 | 11 | $694k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Methodist Hospital Foundation | $1,436,730 | 6 | 0% |
| Lamar University Foundation Inc | $1,002,500 | 1 | 10% |
| Discoveru | $950,000 | 7 | 53% |
| Houston Symphony Society | $875,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Bridgeyear | $740,685 | 7 | 15% |
| St Thomas High School | $671,666 | 2 | n/a |
| Kids' Meals Inc | $510,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Hermann Park Conservancy | $500,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Arbor School | $385,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Inprint Inc | $378,000 | 5 | 6% |
Show all 73 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Jerry C Dearing Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 65 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Strake Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · The Elkins Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Marek Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company
How this is measured
About Jerry C Dearing Family Foundation
- How much does Jerry C Dearing Family Foundation give?
- Jerry C Dearing Family Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $2,626,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 43 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Jerry C Dearing Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (28%), Arts & Culture (18%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are Jerry C Dearing Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Methodist Hospital Foundation ($1.4M), Lamar University Foundation Inc ($1.0M), Discoveru ($950k).
- Does Jerry C Dearing Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jerry C Dearing 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 Jerry C Dearing Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Houston Endowment Inc, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Jerry C Dearing Family Foundation based?
- Jerry C Dearing Family Foundation is based in TX.
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