Texas · Private foundation
The Blackwell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $26k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 12
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $497k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Blackwell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 8 | $26k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $14k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $26k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $20k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $28k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Methodist Hospital Foundation | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Austin Pets Alive Inc | $11,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Arthritis National Research Foundation | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $9,500 | 4 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $6,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Shriners' Hospital for Children | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Citizens For Animal Protection Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Street Youth Ministry of Austin | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Children's Cancer Research Fund | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Methodist Hospital Foundation | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Austin Pets Alive Inc | $11,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Arthritis National Research Foundation | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $9,500 | 4 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $6,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Shriners' Hospital for Children | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Citizens For Animal Protection Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Street Youth Ministry of Austin | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Children's Cancer Research Fund | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Wildlife Center of Texas Inc | $500 | 2 | 0% |
| Austin Wildlife Rescue | $500 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($38k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Blackwell 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: Shell USA Company Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Blackwell Foundation
- How much does The Blackwell Foundation give?
- The Blackwell Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $26,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 12 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Blackwell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (69%), Animals (22%), Food & Nutrition (3%).
- Who are The Blackwell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: The Methodist Hospital Foundation ($25k), Austin Pets Alive Inc ($12k), Arthritis National Research Foundation ($11k).
- Does The Blackwell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Blackwell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Blackwell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund.
- Where is The Blackwell Foundation based?
- The Blackwell Foundation is based in TX.
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