Texas · Private foundation
Nelson Puett Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2024
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,100
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $510,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 49 to 67
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $17M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Nelson Puett Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $634k 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 | 54 | $1.3M | 28% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $1.3M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 62 | $1.4M | 31% |
| FY2021 | 67 | $1.2M | 37% |
| FY2020 | 52 | $1.2M | 31% |
| FY2019 | 58 | $1.2M | 38% |
| FY2018 | 61 | $1.2M | 43% |
| FY2017 | 63 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Remember the Alamo Foundation | $1,050,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Helping Hand Home for Children Inc | $557,200 | 8 | 3% |
| The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation | $518,000 | 8 | 7% |
| Shikar-Safari Club International | $452,375 | 5 | 46% |
| The Junior League of Austin Inc | $250,200 | 2 | 11% |
| Patriots' Hall of Dripping Springs | $250,000 | 2 | 11% |
| The Foundation at Shield Ranch | $250,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Austin Speech Labs Inc | $201,000 | 7 | 4% |
| The Austin Boys and Girls Club Foundation | $200,000 | 3 | 57% |
| University of the South | $181,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 103 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 95 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Nelson Puett Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 91 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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Moody Foundation · St David's Foundation · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr · Mays Family Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Better Business Bureau
How this is measured
About Nelson Puett Foundation
- How much does Nelson Puett Foundation give?
- Nelson Puett Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $1,308,169 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 67 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Nelson Puett Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (17%), Health (14%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Nelson Puett Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Remember the Alamo Foundation ($1.1M), Helping Hand Home for Children Inc ($557k), The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation ($518k).
- Does Nelson Puett Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nelson Puett Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Nelson Puett Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800, Greater Houston Community Foundation.
- Where is Nelson Puett Foundation based?
- Nelson Puett Foundation is based in TX.
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