Texas · Private foundation
The Credence 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.
- $167k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 52%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,088
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $81,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 27
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $856k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 52% of the organizations The Credence Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 95% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $257k 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 | 26 | $167k | 46% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $271k | 52% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $67k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $91k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $49k | 59% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $38k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cross Catholic Outreach Inc | $157,577 | 5 | n/a |
| Moving Waters | $29,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Catholic Charities USA | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Catherine's House | $13,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Center of Family Love | $11,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Dalit Solidarity | $9,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Gospel of Life Association | $8,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Catholic Relief Services | $6,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $2,540 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cross Catholic Outreach Inc | $157,577 | 5 | n/a |
| Moving Waters | $29,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Catholic Charities USA | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Catherine's House | $13,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Center of Family Love | $11,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Dalit Solidarity | $9,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Gospel of Life Association | $8,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Catholic Relief Services | $6,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $2,540 | 3 | 0% |
| Angelmiras Center for Women With Advanced Cancer | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Casa de Esperanza de Los Ninos Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
Plus 75 recipients with no EIN on record ($418k), not named here.
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Credence Foundation
- How much does The Credence Foundation give?
- The Credence Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $166,687 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Credence Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (66%), Religion (17%), Membership Benefit (8%).
- Who are The Credence Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Cross Catholic Outreach Inc ($158k), Moving Waters ($29k), Catholic Charities USA ($20k).
- Does The Credence Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Credence 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 Credence Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is The Credence Foundation based?
- The Credence Foundation is based in TX.
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