Texas · Private foundation
Kinder Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $67M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 78
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $98,762
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $19,433,012
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 42
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $213M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Kinder Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $455k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 31 | $66M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $58M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $56M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $54M | 23% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $52M | 39% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $50M | 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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo Bayou Partnership Inc | $70,628,534 | 6 | 53% |
| William Marsh Rice University | $58,376,950 | 6 | 1% |
| Memorial Park Conservancy Inc | $40,231,074 | 5 | 81% |
| Good Reason Houston Inc | $16,631,635 | 6 | 78% |
| Houston Parks Board | $11,008,560 | 6 | 15% |
| Discovery Green Conservancy | $8,645,672 | 5 | 35% |
| Houston Local Information Initiative Inc | $7,500,000 | 3 | 77% |
| The United Way Inc | $6,123,381 | 6 | 23% |
| Emancipation Park Conservancy | $5,387,611 | 5 | 72% |
| Project Row Houses | $4,810,000 | 6 | 25% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($81M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Kinder Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 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: Houston Endowment Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · The Powell Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · Baker Hughes Foundation · The Sarofim Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The Elkins Foundation
How this is measured
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About Kinder Foundation
- How much does Kinder Foundation give?
- Kinder Foundation reported 78 grants totaling $66,876,693 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 42 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Kinder Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Recreation & Sports (24%), Community Improvement (21%).
- Who are Kinder Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Buffalo Bayou Partnership Inc ($71M), William Marsh Rice University ($58M), Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ($40M).
- Does Kinder Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kinder 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 Kinder Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Houston Endowment Inc, The Brown Foundation Inc, Greater Houston Community Foundation.
- Where is Kinder Foundation based?
- Kinder Foundation is based in TX.
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