Texas · Private foundation
The Armstrong Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 62
- Grants FY2024
- 57
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 57 to 88
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 16
- Total assets, FY2024
- $24M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations The Armstrong Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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 | 59 | $1.1M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $1.2M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $1.2M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 59 | $1.2M | 12% |
| FY2020 | 64 | $1.0M | 13% |
| FY2019 | 86 | $1.0M | 21% |
| FY2018 | 88 | $1.0M | 23% |
| FY2017 | 71 | $905k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Heritage Foundation | $435,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Bill of Rights Institute | $320,000 | 8 | 1% |
| State Policy Network | $264,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Intercollegiate Studies Institute Inc | $250,000 | 8 | 1% |
| The Reason Foundation | $250,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Fund for American Studies | $240,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Institute for Justice | $235,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Texas Public Policy Foundation | $225,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Institute for Humane Studies | $202,500 | 8 | 0% |
| The Independent Institute | $200,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 96 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Armstrong Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 90 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: Donors Trust Inc · Charles Koch Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Adolph Coors Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Charles Koch Institute · Ken W Davis Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · Triad Foundation Inc · Woodford Foundation · The Dunn Foundation
How this is measured
About The Armstrong Foundation
- How much does The Armstrong Foundation give?
- The Armstrong Foundation reported 62 grants totaling $1,191,140 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 88 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Armstrong Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (30%), Education (24%), Social Science (13%).
- Who are The Armstrong Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Heritage Foundation ($435k), Bill of Rights Institute ($320k), State Policy Network ($265k).
- Does The Armstrong Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Armstrong Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Armstrong Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, Charles Koch Foundation, Bradley Impact Fund Inc.
- Where is The Armstrong Foundation based?
- The Armstrong Foundation is based in TX.
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