Texas · Private foundation
The George Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $19M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 163
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 87
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $16M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,555,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 84 to 112
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $304M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations The George Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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 | 101 | $16M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 87 | $16M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 95 | $12M | 25% |
| FY2021 | 84 | $15M | 40% |
| FY2020 | 112 | $16M | 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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Tstc Foundation | $9,015,331 | 5 | 50% |
| Oakbend Medical Center | $5,690,000 | 5 | n/a |
| University of Houston | $4,819,180 | 5 | n/a |
| Fort Bend County Women's Center Inc Sos/Shelter-Outreach-Solutions | $3,528,300 | 5 | 17% |
| Fort Bend History Association | $2,910,690 | 5 | 51% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc | $2,427,500 | 5 | 5% |
| Edison Arts Foundation Inc | $2,000,000 | 3 | 68% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area | $1,856,900 | 5 | 0% |
| Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc | $1,584,031 | 5 | 13% |
| Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston - Houston | $1,342,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 150 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($15M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The George Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 18 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 136 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: The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation · Fort Bend Junior Service League · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Houston Endowment Inc · United Way of Greater Houston · Shell USA Company Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Madison Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The George Foundation
- How much does The George Foundation give?
- The George Foundation reported 163 itemized grants totaling $15,688,047, out of $18,606,592 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 84 and 112 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The George Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (23%), Health (22%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are The George Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Tstc Foundation ($9.0M), Oakbend Medical Center ($5.7M), University of Houston ($4.8M).
- Does The George Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The George Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The George Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company.
- Where is The George Foundation based?
- The George Foundation is based in TX.
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