Texas · Private foundation
Mary B & James K Jennings Charitable 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.
- $12k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $900
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $290k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Mary B & James K Jennings Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 88% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 7 | $12k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $4k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $5k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $14k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $17k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $15k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $14k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $31k | 56% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Grand Opera Association Inc | $24,090 | 5 | 0% |
| The Museum of Fine Arts Houston | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Bayou Bend Gardens Endowment | $14,650 | 3 | n/a |
| The Methodist Hospital Foundation | $12,000 | 8 | 0% |
| William Marsh Rice University | $4,650 | 3 | 0% |
| Texas Children's Hospital | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Episcopal High School | $3,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Kinkaid School Inc | $3,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Remind | $2,700 | 4 | 0% |
| Houston's Amazing Place Inc | $2,490 | 4 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($33k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mary B & James K Jennings Charitable 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.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · Marek Family Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Strake Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
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About Mary B & James K Jennings Charitable Foundation
- How much does Mary B & James K Jennings Charitable Foundation give?
- Mary B & James K Jennings Charitable Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $11,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mary B & James K Jennings Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (35%), Education (17%), Health (17%).
- Who are Mary B & James K Jennings Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ($24k), The Museum of Fine Arts Houston ($15k), Bayou Bend Gardens Endowment ($15k).
- Does Mary B & James K Jennings Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mary B & James K Jennings Charitable 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 Mary B & James K Jennings Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, The William Stamps Farish Fund, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Mary B & James K Jennings Charitable Foundation based?
- Mary B & James K Jennings Charitable Foundation is based in TX.
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