Texas · Private foundation
The Drake Bettner Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $89k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 22
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations The Drake Bettner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 | 7 | $89k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $70k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $296k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $228k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $243k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $408k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $218k | 64% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $153k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The North Texas Family Health Foundation | $400,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Sundance Institute | $150,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Texas Tribune Inc | $130,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $112,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The 19th News | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Redford Center Inc | $65,000 | 4 | 1% |
| State Democracy Project | $40,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Harmony Foundation Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Women Make Movies Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Equality Utah Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($279k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Drake Bettner 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: Prism Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Harvest Seed Project Foundation · Ruthanna B Snow Charitable Foundation · Episcopal Health Foundation Of Dallas · North Texas Food Bank · Coserv Charitable Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Ford Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation
How this is measured
About The Drake Bettner Foundation
- How much does The Drake Bettner Foundation give?
- The Drake Bettner Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $89,239 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Drake Bettner Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (32%), Health (30%), Civil Rights (10%).
- Who are The Drake Bettner Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The North Texas Family Health Foundation ($400k), Sundance Institute ($150k), Texas Tribune Inc ($130k).
- Does The Drake Bettner Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Drake Bettner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Drake Bettner Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Prism Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Texas Instruments Foundation.
- Where is The Drake Bettner Foundation based?
- The Drake Bettner Foundation is based in TX.
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