Texas · Private foundation
Joan and Herb Kelleher Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2023
- 35
- Itemized grants FY2023
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2023
- $2.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2023
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 32
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 5
- Total assets, FY2023
- $86M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Joan and Herb Kelleher Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $845k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 32 | $2.2M | 44% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $1.9M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $1.1M | 27% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Remember the Alamo Foundation | $600,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Trinity University | $418,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Magik Childrens Theatre of San Antonio Dba the Magik Theatre | $205,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Pathways to Aviation | $185,000 | 4 | 78% |
| Diocese of West Texas | $150,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Texas Agricultural Land Trust | $145,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Texas A&M Foundation | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Alamo Heights School Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Blood & Tissue Center Foundation | $50,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Meta Church Inc | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Joan and Herb Kelleher Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 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: San Antonio Area Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · McCombs Foundation Inc · Amy Shelton McNutt Charitable Trust · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Mays Family Foundation · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Alfred S Gage Foundation · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Joan and Herb Kelleher Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About Joan and Herb Kelleher Charitable Foundation
- How much does Joan and Herb Kelleher Charitable Foundation give?
- Joan and Herb Kelleher Charitable Foundation reported 35 itemized grants totaling $2,198,500, out of $2,329,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Joan and Herb Kelleher Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (15%), Philanthropy (11%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are Joan and Herb Kelleher Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Remember the Alamo Foundation ($600k), Trinity University ($418k), Magik Childrens Theatre of San Antonio Dba the Magik Theatre ($205k).
- Does Joan and Herb Kelleher Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joan and Herb Kelleher Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Joan and Herb Kelleher Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992, Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation.
- Where is Joan and Herb Kelleher Charitable Foundation based?
- Joan and Herb Kelleher Charitable Foundation is based in TX.
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