Texas · Private foundation
John P McGovern Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $24M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 244
- Grants FY2024
- 180
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 180 to 197
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $138M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 6% of the organizations John P McGovern Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $271k 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 | 189 | $24M | 5% |
| FY2023 | 180 | $6.5M | 6% |
| FY2022 | 197 | $8.1M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 190 | $7.3M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 195 | $7.1M | 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hermann Park Conservancy | $2,200,000 | 3 | 15% |
| Children's Museum Inc | $1,800,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Houston Zoo Inc | $1,773,500 | 4 | 2% |
| 1894 Inc | $1,500,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Houston Museum of Natural Science | $1,077,500 | 5 | 1% |
| John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science | $850,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $753,000 | 5 | 0% |
| New Hope Housing Inc | $750,000 | 4 | 3% |
| The Council on Recovery | $655,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Institute for Behavior and Health Inc | $625,000 | 5 | 80% |
Show all 182 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 92 recipients with no EIN on record ($23M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
John P McGovern Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 166 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: The Brown Foundation Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Strake Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund Inc · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Shell USA Company Foundation
How this is measured
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About John P McGovern Foundation
- How much does John P McGovern Foundation give?
- John P McGovern Foundation reported 244 grants totaling $23,553,258 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 180 and 197 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does John P McGovern Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (28%), Arts & Culture (11%), Education (10%).
- Who are John P McGovern Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Hermann Park Conservancy ($2.2M), Children's Museum Inc ($1.8M), Houston Zoo Inc ($1.8M).
- Does John P McGovern Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John P McGovern Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John P McGovern Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Brown Foundation Inc, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Strake Foundation.
- Where is John P McGovern Foundation based?
- John P McGovern Foundation is based in TX.
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