· Private foundation
The Edaren 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k14 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION | $60,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY OF TEXAS | $50,000 |
| ART MUSEUM OF SE TEXAS | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| BIG THICKET ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| ART LEAGUE HOUSTON | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| GREEN SPACES ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| AFA AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| ARMAND BAYOU NATURE CENTER | $15,000 |
| BEAUMONT BOTANICAL GARDENS | $15,000 |
| COASTAL PRAIRIE CONSERVANCY | $15,000 |
| MAGIK THEATRE | $10,000 |
| FORT WORTH BOTANIC GARDENS | $10,000 |
| YOUNG AUDIENCES OF HOUSTON | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of The Edaren Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 93%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBeaumont Community Players Inc dba Southeast Texas Stages7× · 2017–2024 · $241k · revenue +0%
- SMSCIENCE MILL6× · 2017–2023 · $180k · revenue +58%
- AFASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS TEXAS INC4× · 2017–2023 · $140k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- MGMAGNOLIA GARDEN CLUBone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -57% · 40% of their budget
- CSCHRISTUS SE TEXAS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $75k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INCone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +21%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Big Thicket Biosphere Reserve's mission is community-based conservation to reconnect people with the natural and cultural environment while promoting sustainable economic growth in Southeast Texas.
The texas state aquarium's mission is engaging people with animals, inspiring appreciation for our seas, and supporting wildlife conservation. its vision is to be a global leader in fostering support for the conservation of the gulf of…
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
The mission of the Houston Arboretum & Nature Center is to provide education about the natural environment to people of all ages and to protect and enhance the Arboretum as a haven and sanctuary for native plants and animals.
Advancement of education and skill in the art of Landscape Architecture and the promotion of the profession of Landscape Architecture as an instrument of service in the public welfare.
To advance the conservation of birds and their habitats in the Greater Houston Gulf Coast region by acquiring and maintaining critical habitat as bird sanctuaries, providing education programs and nature experiences, and advocating policy…
TexARTS is an arts education and performance destination that builds character, professionalism, and careers. Its mission is to cultivate a thriving arts community by exposing all people to the visual and performing arts. TexARTS prepares…
The artist boat, inc. is dedicated to promoting awareness and preservation of coastal margins and the marine environment through the disciplines of the sciences and the arts.
The mission of the san antonio botanical garden is "enriching lives through plants and nature." nowhere else in the south-central texas region are people and plants brought together in such a biologically diverse museum of plants and…
To inspire and enchant lives through a variety of theatrical experiences at the highest level of artistic excellence with our Resident Acting Company at the center
How this is measured
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 54 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Beaumont Community Players Inc dba Southeast Texas Stages ↗
- Who funds Big Thicket Association ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MILL ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Da Camera Society of Texas ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA GARDEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds SYMPHONY OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Conservation Alliance ↗
- Who funds ART LEAGUE OF HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds MAGIK CHILDRENS THEATRE OF SAN ANTONIO DBA THE MAGIK THEATRE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Lone Star Coastal Alliance ↗
- Who funds Armand Bayou Nature Center Inc ↗
- Who funds The Art Studio Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BEAUMONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds Some Other Place ↗
- Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds LONGVIEW MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Coastal Prairie Conservancy ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds Urban Roots NTX ↗
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: The Brown Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Union Pacific Foundation · Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation · Mechia Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · He and Kate Dishman Charitable Trust · Strake Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Edaren Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Edaren Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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