Texas · Private foundation
The Humphreys Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations The Humphreys Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k 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 | 16 | $1.8M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $1.8M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $1.7M | 5% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $1.9M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $1.9M | 17% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $1.6M | 7% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $1.6M | 17% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $1.5M | 23% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Grand Opera Association Inc | $2,450,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Alley Theatre | $2,330,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Houston Symphony Society | $1,775,000 | 9 | 1% |
| A D Players | $1,435,000 | 8 | 8% |
| Theatre Under the Stars Inc | $875,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Performing Arts Houston | $840,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Stages | $300,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Valley Players | $228,000 | 8 | n/a |
| River Oaks Chamber Orchestra | $165,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Main Street Theater Houston | $120,000 | 5 | 2% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Humphreys Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Houston Arts Alliance · The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts · The Wortham Foundation Inc · Miller Theatre Advisory Board Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Houston Endowment Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Mechia Foundation · The Powell Foundation · The Elkins Foundation
How this is measured
About The Humphreys Foundation
- How much does The Humphreys Foundation give?
- The Humphreys Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $1,832,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Humphreys Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (98%), Education (2%), Recreation & Sports (0%).
- Who are The Humphreys Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ($2.5M), Alley Theatre ($2.3M), Houston Symphony Society ($1.8M).
- Does The Humphreys Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Humphreys Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Humphreys Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Houston Arts Alliance, The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts, The Wortham Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Humphreys Foundation based?
- The Humphreys Foundation is based in TX.
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