Texas · Private foundation
The Alkek and Williams Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2024
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 45
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations The Alkek and Williams Foundation 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; $82k 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 | 34 | $1.2M | 26% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $1.0M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $1.4M | 42% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $926k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Symphony Society | $1,537,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Houston Ballet Foundation | $1,500,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Houston Grand Opera Association Inc | $842,500 | 5 | 1% |
| The Museum of Fine Arts Houston | $370,000 | 5 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $310,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Theatre Under the Stars Inc | $162,650 | 5 | 0% |
| Alley Theatre | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Houston's Charity for Children Inc | $89,600 | 5 | 1% |
| Performing Arts Houston | $86,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Knowledge Arts Foundation (Teach) | $60,000 | 3 | 1% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($175k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Alkek and Williams 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Mechia Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Memorial Hermann Health System · Strake Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · The Weingarten Schnitzer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Alkek and Williams Foundation
- How much does The Alkek and Williams Foundation give?
- The Alkek and Williams Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $1,173,525 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 45 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Alkek and Williams Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (85%), International (6%), Community Improvement (3%).
- Who are The Alkek and Williams Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Houston Symphony Society ($1.5M), Houston Ballet Foundation ($1.5M), Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ($843k).
- Does The Alkek and Williams Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Alkek and Williams Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Alkek and Williams Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Mechia Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation.
- Where is The Alkek and Williams Foundation based?
- The Alkek and Williams Foundation is based in TX.
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