Texas · Private foundation
The Cockrell Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $11M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $4,016,163
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 33
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $177M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 5% of the organizations The Cockrell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 14 | $11M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $11M | 5% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $11M | 25% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $9.3M | 18% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $8.8M | 27% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $7.7M | 29% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $8.4M | 36% |
| FY2017 | 31 | $7.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 University of Texas Foundation Inc | $28,841,935 | 8 | 13% |
| The Methodist Hospital Foundation | $14,471,300 | 8 | 3% |
| Houston Museum of Natural Science | $11,786,784 | 8 | 5% |
| IDEA Public Schools | $2,000,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Reasoning Mind Inc | $1,000,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Kids' Meals Inc | $580,892 | 3 | 3% |
| Second Baptist Church | $380,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Free Enterprise Institute | $210,000 | 6 | 16% |
| Youth Entrepreneurs Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Kinkaid School Inc | $132,500 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($14M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Cockrell 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 · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Elkins Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Strake Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust · MD Anderson Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The John M O'Quinn Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Cockrell Foundation
- How much does The Cockrell Foundation give?
- The Cockrell Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $10,808,776 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Cockrell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (43%), Health (37%), Science & Tech (16%).
- Who are The Cockrell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The University of Texas Foundation Inc ($29M), The Methodist Hospital Foundation ($14M), Houston Museum of Natural Science ($12M).
- Does The Cockrell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Cockrell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Cockrell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Cockrell Foundation based?
- The Cockrell Foundation is based in TX.
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