Texas · Private foundation
Melbern G & Susanne M Glasscock Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $325,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Melbern G & Susanne M Glasscock Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 | 21 | $1.6M | 10% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $1.7M | 5% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $1.4M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $1.5M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $1.2M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $789k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $673k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $680k | 0% |
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 Botanic Garden | $3,635,000 | 9 | 14% |
| Houston Museum of Natural Science | $1,005,000 | 9 | 1% |
| YES Prep Public Schools Inc | $500,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Museum of Fine Arts Houston | $390,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Brookwood Community Inc | $250,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Ser-Jobs for Progress of the Texas Gulf Coast Inc | $240,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Camp For All Foundation | $232,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Communities in Schools of Houston Inc | $225,756 | 6 | 0% |
| Houston Symphony Society | $175,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Lone Star Flight Museum | $170,000 | 9 | 1% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Melbern G & Susanne M Glasscock 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 Brown Foundation Inc · The Powell Foundation · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · John P McGovern Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · MD Anderson Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Melbern G & Susanne M Glasscock Foundation with peer funders
About Melbern G & Susanne M Glasscock Foundation
- How much does Melbern G & Susanne M Glasscock Foundation give?
- Melbern G & Susanne M Glasscock Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $1,705,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Melbern G & Susanne M Glasscock Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (36%), Education (17%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are Melbern G & Susanne M Glasscock Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Houston Botanic Garden ($3.6M), Houston Museum of Natural Science ($1.0M), YES Prep Public Schools Inc ($500k).
- Does Melbern G & Susanne M Glasscock Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Melbern G & Susanne M Glasscock Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Melbern G & Susanne M Glasscock Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc, The Powell Foundation.
- Where is Melbern G & Susanne M Glasscock Foundation based?
- Melbern G & Susanne M Glasscock Foundation is based in TX.
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