Texas · Private foundation
Joe B Foster Family Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $275k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2026
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 30
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 5
- Total assets, FY2026
- $7.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 13% of the organizations Joe B Foster Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 30 | $275k | 10% |
| FY2025 | 30 | $266k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $250k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $223k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $173k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $237k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $132k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $339k | 9% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area | $565,000 | 10 | 0% |
| Texas A&M Foundation | $156,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee | $70,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Snooty Giggles Dog Rescue | $65,000 | 7 | 3% |
| The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc | $64,000 | 10 | 0% |
| Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc | $55,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Coastal Mountains Land Trust | $55,000 | 10 | 1% |
| St Michaels Catholic Preparatory School | $40,000 | 10 | n/a |
| Safe in Austin Rescue Ranch | $40,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Waterfall Arts | $36,000 | 10 | 1% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($845k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joe B Foster Family 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.
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How this is measured
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About Joe B Foster Family Foundation
- How much does Joe B Foster Family Foundation give?
- Joe B Foster Family Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $275,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 30 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Joe B Foster Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Health (28%), Human Services (26%), Animals (16%).
- Who are Joe B Foster Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area ($565k), Texas A&M Foundation ($156k), The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee ($70k).
- Does Joe B Foster Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joe B Foster Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Joe B Foster Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, Maine Community Foundation Inc, Bangor Savings Bank Foundation.
- Where is Joe B Foster Family Foundation based?
- Joe B Foster Family Foundation is based in TX.
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