Texas · Private foundation
Still Water 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.
- $20M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 91
- Grants FY2024
- 68
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $60,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 66 to 70
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $147M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 34% of the organizations Still Water Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 | 77 | $19M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 68 | $11M | 34% |
| FY2022 | 70 | $12M | 36% |
| FY2021 | 66 | $6.1M | 53% |
| FY2020 | 67 | $13M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Stephens Episcopal School | $12,361,640 | 5 | n/a |
| San Francisco Zen Center | $5,816,612 | 5 | n/a |
| Abilene Heritage Square Inc | $2,500,000 | 4 | 21% |
| St Johns College in Santa Fe | $2,500,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Waterloo Greenway Conservancy | $1,575,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Hardin-Simmons University | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Hill Country Conservancy | $707,000 | 5 | 12% |
| Foundation Communities Inc | $700,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Texas Agricultural Land Trust | $625,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Mindpop | $620,000 | 5 | 21% |
Show all 99 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 69 recipients with no EIN on record ($20M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Still Water Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 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 · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation · The Summerlee Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Better Business Bureau · The Moody Foundation · Dian Graves Owen Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · The Legett Foundation · Greater Austin Performing Arts Center Inc
How this is measured
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About Still Water Foundation
- How much does Still Water Foundation give?
- Still Water Foundation reported 91 grants totaling $19,756,834 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 66 and 70 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Still Water Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (32%), Arts & Culture (27%), Religion (10%).
- Who are Still Water Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: St Stephens Episcopal School ($12M), San Francisco Zen Center ($5.8M), Abilene Heritage Square Inc ($2.5M).
- Does Still Water Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Still Water 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 Still Water Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, Shield-Ayres Foundation, Meadows Foundation Inc.
- Where is Still Water Foundation based?
- Still Water Foundation is based in TX.
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