Texas · Private foundation
Ruth and Ted Bauer Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $715k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $420,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 22
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $21M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Ruth and Ted Bauer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 10 | $715k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $1.2M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $1.1M | 6% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $970k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $905k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $1.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Second Baptist Church | $2,145,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Memorial Hermann Foundation | $1,087,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Small Steps Nurturing Center | $285,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Trees For Houston | $250,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Agape Development Ministries | $250,000 | 3 | 3% |
| The Roxbury Latin School | $185,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Houston Arboretum & Nature Center | $185,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Kinkaid School Inc | $155,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Harris County Hospital District Foundation | $150,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Houston Grand Opera Association Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($130k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ruth and Ted Bauer Family 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.
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How this is measured
Compare Ruth and Ted Bauer Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Ruth and Ted Bauer Family Foundation
- How much does Ruth and Ted Bauer Family Foundation give?
- Ruth and Ted Bauer Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $715,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Ruth and Ted Bauer Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (33%), Health (26%), Education (23%).
- Who are Ruth and Ted Bauer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Second Baptist Church ($2.1M), Memorial Hermann Foundation ($1.1M), Small Steps Nurturing Center ($285k).
- Does Ruth and Ted Bauer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ruth and Ted Bauer Family 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 Ruth and Ted Bauer Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Strake Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc.
- Where is Ruth and Ted Bauer Family Foundation based?
- Ruth and Ted Bauer Family Foundation is based in TX.
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