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The Boyd Foundation Charitable Trust

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.

$69k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2024
25
Organizations funded FY2023
12%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 25
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$1.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 12% of the organizations The Boyd Foundation Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
HealthHousing & ShelterEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving26$69k19%
FY202325$64k12%
FY202224$63k33%
FY202117$52k18%
FY202017$46kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$112kFood & Nutrition$77kHousing & Shelter$45kHealth$14kReligion$13kScience & Tech$10kCrime & Legal$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VA
TN
NC
DC
LA
MS
AL
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Houston Food Bank$43,00050%
Star of Hope Mission$23,00050%
Kids' Meals Inc$17,00050%
Meals on Wheels$17,00053%
Search Homeless Services$17,0005n/a
Lsu Foundation$12,50050%
Children At Risk$9,50050%
St Lukes United Methodist Church$6,0002n/a
Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston$6,00030%
Citizens for Animals of Midland Odessa Inc$5,00050%
Show all 18 grantees
All grantees of The Boyd Foundation Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Houston Food Bank$43,00050%
Star of Hope Mission$23,00050%
Kids' Meals Inc$17,00050%
Meals on Wheels$17,00053%
Search Homeless Services$17,0005n/a
Lsu Foundation$12,50050%
Children At Risk$9,50050%
St Lukes United Methodist Church$6,0002n/a
Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston$6,00030%
Citizens for Animals of Midland Odessa Inc$5,00050%
Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc$4,50030%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Texas Gulf Coast & Louisiana Inc$4,50030%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$3,50030%
Mississippi State University$3,0002n/a
University of Mobile$3,00020%
Lsu Alumni Association$3,00050%
University of Louisiana Lafayette Alumni Association$2,00011%
Temple Beth El$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($112k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Boyd Foundation Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $43,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetStar of Hope Mission: $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKids' Meals Inc: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels: $17,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetLsu Foundation: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChildren At Risk: $9,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens for Animals of Midland Odessa Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Habitat for Humanity Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of the Texas Gulf Coast & Louisiana Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Mobile: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLsu Alumni Association: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Louisiana Lafayette Alumni Association: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Shell USA Company FoundationTX12.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Boyd Foundation Charitable Trust

How much does The Boyd Foundation Charitable Trust give?
The Boyd Foundation Charitable Trust reported 26 grants totaling $68,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Boyd Foundation Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (38%), Food & Nutrition (26%), Housing & Shelter (15%).
Who are The Boyd Foundation Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Houston Food Bank ($43k), Star of Hope Mission ($23k), Kids' Meals Inc ($17k).
Does The Boyd Foundation Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Boyd Foundation Charitable Trust 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 The Boyd Foundation Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is The Boyd Foundation Charitable Trust based?
The Boyd Foundation Charitable Trust is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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