Texas · Private foundation
The Elkins Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $17M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 76
- Grants FY2025
- 86
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 74 to 99
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $207M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations The Elkins Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.8M 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 | 76 | $17M | 39% |
| FY2024 | 86 | $16M | 42% |
| FY2023 | 99 | $15M | 46% |
| FY2022 | 74 | $14M | 43% |
| FY2021 | 80 | $11M | 54% |
| FY2020 | 96 | $12M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor College of Medicine | $5,250,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Texas Children's Hospital | $4,500,000 | 5 | 0% |
| William Marsh Rice University | $3,400,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Depelchin Children's Center | $2,350,000 | 3 | 2% |
| St John's School | $2,100,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Foundation for Jones Hall | $2,000,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Friends of Pumpkin Park | $1,750,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Buffalo Bayou Partnership Inc | $1,500,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area | $1,250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $1,250,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 217 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 66 recipients with no EIN on record ($22M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Elkins Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 192 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Strake Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · MD Anderson Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Powell Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · Marek Family Foundation
How this is measured
About The Elkins Foundation
- How much does The Elkins Foundation give?
- The Elkins Foundation reported 76 grants totaling $17,256,822 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 74 and 99 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Elkins Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (28%), Education (26%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are The Elkins Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Baylor College of Medicine ($5.3M), Texas Children's Hospital ($4.5M), William Marsh Rice University ($3.4M).
- Does The Elkins Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Elkins Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Elkins Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc, Vivian L Smith Foundation.
- Where is The Elkins Foundation based?
- The Elkins Foundation is based in TX.
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