Texas · Private foundation
Kws 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.
- $270k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $160,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 6
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Kws Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $270k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $202k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $180k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $11k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $285k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $285k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $1.0M | 50% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $175k | 50% |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Religion$1.3MHealth$770kHuman Services$387kEducation$205kPhilanthropy$145kRecreation & Sports$68kYouth Development$20kArts & Culture$10kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Lukes United Methodist Church | $1,256,200 | 9 | n/a |
| Christian Community Service Center Inc | $387,000 | 5 | 2% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $210,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Texas Tech Foundation Inc | $170,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United Way of Odessa Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 2% |
| San Angelo Stock Show & Rodeo Syndicate | $20,000 | 2 | 5% |
| St Luke's United Methodist Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Methodist Hospital Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater Houston | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| YES Prep Public Schools Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Lukes United Methodist Church | $1,256,200 | 9 | n/a |
| Christian Community Service Center Inc | $387,000 | 5 | 2% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $210,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Texas Tech Foundation Inc | $170,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United Way of Odessa Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 2% |
| San Angelo Stock Show & Rodeo Syndicate | $20,000 | 2 | 5% |
| St Luke's United Methodist Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Methodist Hospital Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater Houston | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| YES Prep Public Schools Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Search Homeless Services | $9,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Texas Public Policy Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($653k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kws Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.
About Kws Foundation
- How much does Kws Foundation give?
- Kws Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $270,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Kws Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (44%), Health (27%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Kws Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Lukes United Methodist Church ($1.3M), Christian Community Service Center Inc ($387k), American Cancer Society Inc ($210k).
- Does Kws Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kws 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.
- Where is Kws Foundation based?
- Kws Foundation is based in TX.
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