Texas · Private foundation
Penland Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $892k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 83
- Grants FY2025
- 67
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,100
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $112,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 69
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Penland Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k 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 | 78 | $890k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 67 | $684k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 69 | $773k | 41% |
| FY2022 | 58 | $685k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $688k | 51% |
| FY2020 | 48 | $609k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program | $589,490 | 5 | 12% |
| Texas Children's Hospital | $387,900 | 6 | 0% |
| C3 Foundation | $210,000 | 2 | 9% |
| The 100 Club of Southeast Texas | $196,495 | 6 | 24% |
| Girls' Haven Inc | $146,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Hardin County Youth Project Show | $96,799 | 6 | n/a |
| In Touch Ministries Inc | $71,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Public Knowledge | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 68 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 99 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Penland 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: Mechia Foundation · The Bob and Karen Wortham Charitable Fou · Gay D and William F Scott Family Foundation · Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc · He and Kate Dishman Charitable Trust · The Morgan Charitable Foundation · Young Mens Business League of Beaumont · Wilton and Effie Hebert Foundation · Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation · B a and E W Steinhagen Benevolent Trust · Sidney and Charline Dauphin Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About Penland Foundation
- How much does Penland Foundation give?
- Penland Foundation reported 83 grants totaling $892,072 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 69 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Penland Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (53%), Youth Development (8%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are Penland Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program ($589k), Texas Children's Hospital ($388k), C3 Foundation ($210k).
- Does Penland Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Penland Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Penland Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mechia Foundation, The Bob and Karen Wortham Charitable Fou, Gay D and William F Scott Family Foundation.
- Where is Penland Foundation based?
- Penland Foundation is based in TX.
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