Texas · Private foundation
The Ewing Halsell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $6.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 45
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 44
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $160M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Ewing Halsell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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 | 41 | $6.5M | 12% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $8.0M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $7.7M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $6.3M | 6% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $6.9M | 7% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $7.0M | 19% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $6.8M | 26% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $7.8M | 31% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Choose to Succeed Inc | $6,730,000 | 9 | 58% |
| IDEA Public Schools | $6,514,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Kipp San Antonio Inc | $4,500,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Basis Texas Charter Schools Inc | $4,500,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Compass Rose Education Inc | $2,350,000 | 7 | 10% |
| San Antonio Area Foundation | $1,990,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Trinity University | $1,600,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Texas Agricultural Land Trust | $1,500,000 | 9 | 8% |
| 50can Inc | $1,500,000 | 2 | 1% |
| San Antonio Museum of Art | $1,210,000 | 9 | 3% |
Show all 64 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($20M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ewing Halsell Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 58 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: San Antonio Area Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · George W Brackenridge Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324 · San Antonio Area Foundation Group Return · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Ewing Halsell Foundation
- How much does The Ewing Halsell Foundation give?
- The Ewing Halsell Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $6,510,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Ewing Halsell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (65%), Human Services (10%), Environment (9%).
- Who are The Ewing Halsell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Choose to Succeed Inc ($6.7M), IDEA Public Schools ($6.5M), Kipp San Antonio Inc ($4.5M).
- Does The Ewing Halsell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ewing Halsell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ewing Halsell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992, Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100.
- Where is The Ewing Halsell Foundation based?
- The Ewing Halsell Foundation is based in TX.
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