Texas · Private foundation
The Callaway Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $568k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $11,625
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations The Callaway Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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 | 21 | $568k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $531k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $536k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $491k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $573k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $595k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $592k | 41% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $531k | 31% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Edwards University | $1,093,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Baylor University | $527,125 | 9 | 0% |
| Texas A&M Foundation | $310,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Mary Hardin-Baylor | $300,250 | 8 | 0% |
| Texas State Technical College | $183,130 | 9 | n/a |
| Temple Education Foundation Inc | $70,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Dallas Baptist University | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sam Houston State University | $27,225 | 7 | n/a |
| University of Mary | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| East Texas Baptist University | $21,375 | 3 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Edwards University | $1,093,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Baylor University | $527,125 | 9 | 0% |
| Texas A&M Foundation | $310,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Mary Hardin-Baylor | $300,250 | 8 | 0% |
| Texas State Technical College | $183,130 | 9 | n/a |
| Temple Education Foundation Inc | $70,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Dallas Baptist University | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sam Houston State University | $27,225 | 7 | n/a |
| University of Mary | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| East Texas Baptist University | $21,375 | 3 | 0% |
| West Texas A&M University | $20,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $16,220 | 1 | n/a |
| The Belton Educational Enrichment Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Tyler Junior College | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Texas Womans University | $5,550 | 2 | n/a |
| Brigham Young University | $4,400 | 1 | n/a |
| University of the Incarnate Word | $3,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Trinity Valley Community College | $3,475 | 1 | n/a |
| Lone Star College System | $3,325 | 1 | n/a |
| Texas Lutheran University | $3,175 | 1 | n/a |
| Wiley College | $2,750 | 1 | 0% |
| Texas Christian University | $2,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Cisco College | $2,550 | 1 | n/a |
| Alamo Colleges District | $2,125 | 1 | n/a |
| Huston-Tillotson University | $2,100 | 1 | 0% |
| Jacksonville College | $1,850 | 1 | 0% |
| Southwestern Adventist University | $1,725 | 1 | 0% |
| Concordia University Texas | $1,725 | 1 | 0% |
| Southern New Hampshire University | $1,300 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Callaway 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: San Antonio Livestock Exposition Educational Fund Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Thurman Crawford Charitable Trust · Texas Higher Education Foundation · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · The Robert A Welch Foundation · Charles & Lois Marie Bright Foundation · Council of Independent Colleges · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Richard Wallrath Educational Foundation
How this is measured
About The Callaway Foundation
- How much does The Callaway Foundation give?
- The Callaway Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $567,598 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Callaway Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
- Who are The Callaway Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Edwards University ($1.1M), Baylor University ($527k), Texas A&M Foundation ($310k).
- Does The Callaway Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Callaway 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 The Callaway Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Livestock Exposition Educational Fund Inc, Tulsa Community Foundation, Folds of Honor Foundation.
- Where is The Callaway Foundation based?
- The Callaway Foundation is based in TX.
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