Texas · Private foundation
Milton & Betty Holcombe 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.
- $328k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $247k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Milton & Betty Holcombe Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 | 24 | $328k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $264k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $237k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $246k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $186k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $142k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $120k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $108k | 48% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Heritage Society | $670,000 | 9 | 100% |
| Winthrop University Foundation | $223,000 | 9 | 1% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $77,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St Josephs Indian School | $57,000 | 9 | n/a |
| St Labre Indian School | $33,000 | 9 | n/a |
| James F Byrnes Foundation | $29,000 | 9 | 2% |
| American Battlefield Trust | $25,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Central First Baptist Church | $24,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Pickens County Historical Society | $22,000 | 9 | 8% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Heritage Society | $670,000 | 9 | 100% |
| Winthrop University Foundation | $223,000 | 9 | 1% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $77,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St Josephs Indian School | $57,000 | 9 | n/a |
| St Labre Indian School | $33,000 | 9 | n/a |
| James F Byrnes Foundation | $29,000 | 9 | 2% |
| American Battlefield Trust | $25,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Central First Baptist Church | $24,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Pickens County Historical Society | $22,000 | 9 | 8% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Morgan Family Cemetery Association | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Historic Old Pickens Foundation | $17,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Richardson Womans Club | $14,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Smithsonian Institution | $14,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Bethel Presbyterian Church | $9,000 | 6 | n/a |
| United Daughters of the Confederacy | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greenhill School | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Pinnacle Partners of the Carolinas Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Parish Episcopal School | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| PEO Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($461k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Milton & Betty Holcombe Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 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.
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How this is measured
Compare Milton & Betty Holcombe Foundation with peer funders
About Milton & Betty Holcombe Foundation
- How much does Milton & Betty Holcombe Foundation give?
- Milton & Betty Holcombe Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $328,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Milton & Betty Holcombe Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (49%), Education (19%), Religion (15%).
- Who are Milton & Betty Holcombe Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Central Heritage Society ($670k), Winthrop University Foundation ($223k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($77k).
- Does Milton & Betty Holcombe Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Milton & Betty Holcombe 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 Milton & Betty Holcombe Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Milton & Betty Holcombe Foundation based?
- Milton & Betty Holcombe Foundation is based in TX.
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