Texas · Private foundation
Musk Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $474M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 51
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $94M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 40
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 20
- Total assets, FY2024
- $463M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Musk Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.9M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 49 | $68M | 69% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $109M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $68M | 75% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $156M | 97% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $10M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| X Prize Foundation Inc | $121,450,000 | 4 | 43% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $55,000,000 | 1 | 4% |
| The Foundation | $54,808,757 | 2 | 35% |
| Khan Academy Inc | $19,500,000 | 3 | 26% |
| The Hack Foundation D/B/A Hack Club | $9,290,000 | 4 | 50% |
| Brownsville Independent School District | $6,696,056 | 2 | n/a |
| The St Bernard Project Inc | $5,750,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Windward School | $5,100,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Creative Visions Foundation | $5,000,000 | 1 | 33% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $5,000,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 82 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($40M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Musk Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 16 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 69 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Rio Grande Valley Philanthropic Foundation · Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation · Brownsville Foundation for Health and Education · Serafy Foundation · Raul Tijerina Jr Foundation · Share Our Strength · The Moody Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Project Lead the Way Inc · Rotary Club of Brownsville Sunrise Texas USA Inc · Jules D Gosseaux Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Musk Foundation
- How much does Musk Foundation give?
- Musk Foundation reported 51 itemized grants totaling $94,367,057, out of $474,325,312 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 40 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Musk Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (59%), Science & Tech (15%), Health (8%).
- Who are Musk Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: X Prize Foundation Inc ($121M), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($55M), The Foundation ($55M).
- Does Musk Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Musk 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 Musk Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Rio Grande Valley Philanthropic Foundation, Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation.
- Where is Musk Foundation based?
- Musk Foundation is based in TX.
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