Texas · Private foundation
Rowling 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.
- $10M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 70
- Grants FY2024
- 69
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,850,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 69
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $52M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 42% of the organizations Rowling Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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 | 69 | $10M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 69 | $6.3M | 42% |
| FY2022 | 61 | $4.7M | 75% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $1.0M | 88% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $3.8M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Life | $5,412,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Omni Hotels Charitable Foundation | $2,650,000 | 2 | 93% |
| Behind Every Door Ministries Inc | $1,207,378 | 4 | 15% |
| Highland Park Isd Education Foundation | $1,000,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Highlands College | $838,333 | 2 | n/a |
| East-West Ministries International | $796,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Alliance Defending Freedom | $750,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Park Cities Presbyterian Church | $680,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Kershaw's Challenge | $600,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Consumers' Research Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 6% |
Show all 83 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Rowling Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 73 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 · The Dallas Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Independent Charitable Gift Fund · Servant Foundation · The David B Miller Family Foundation · Lee Ann and Steven Van Amburgh Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Signatry Charitable Trust · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Lawrence B Dale Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Rowling Foundation
- How much does Rowling Foundation give?
- Rowling Foundation reported 70 grants totaling $10,233,833 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 69 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Rowling Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (22%), Religion (19%), Education (11%).
- Who are Rowling Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Young Life ($5.4M), Omni Hotels Charitable Foundation ($2.6M), Behind Every Door Ministries Inc ($1.2M).
- Does Rowling Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rowling 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 Rowling Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Dallas Foundation, Christian Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Rowling Foundation based?
- Rowling Foundation is based in TX.
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