Texas · Private foundation
Prometheus Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $400k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2024
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 57
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Prometheus Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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 | 37 | $399k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $427k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $378k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $400k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $326k | 12% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $298k | 34% |
| FY2018 | 51 | $273k | 29% |
| FY2017 | 57 | $254k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mendcenter Foundation | $539,875 | 6 | 30% |
| Shanti Bhavan Children's Project Inc | $205,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Houston Area Women's Center | $140,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Music Health Alliance Inc | $124,500 | 8 | 2% |
| The Innocence Project Inc | $88,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Council of Americana Roots Music | $64,000 | 6 | 31% |
| Healthcare for the Homeless-Houston | $63,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Ishida Dance Company Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Wo Smith Nashville Community Music School | $58,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Kipp Nashville | $56,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 78 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($828k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Prometheus Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 68 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · One Valley Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Yellowstone Club Community Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation
How this is measured
About Prometheus Charitable Trust
- How much does Prometheus Charitable Trust give?
- Prometheus Charitable Trust reported 38 grants totaling $399,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 57 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Prometheus Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (32%), Arts & Culture (16%), Education (13%).
- Who are Prometheus Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mendcenter Foundation ($540k), Shanti Bhavan Children's Project Inc ($205k), Houston Area Women's Center ($140k).
- Does Prometheus Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Prometheus Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Prometheus Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc, Shell USA Company Foundation.
- Where is Prometheus Charitable Trust based?
- Prometheus Charitable Trust is based in TX.
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