Texas · Private foundation
The Kayser Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $199k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2024
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 37
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations The Kayser Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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 | 35 | $197k | 49% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $204k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $341k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $160k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $132k | 48% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $206k | 59% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $132k | 63% |
| FY2017 | 30 | $106k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Astros Foundation | $58,250 | 4 | 0% |
| The Children's Fund Inc | $51,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Performing Arts Houston | $47,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Memorial Hermann Foundation | $46,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Will Erwin Headache Research Foundation | $35,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Texas Children's Hospital | $28,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Trinity Park Conservancy | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Covenant House Texas | $19,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Cenikor Foundation | $17,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Greater Houston Partnership Foundation | $16,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 76 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 67 recipients with no EIN on record ($776k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Kayser Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Strake Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Brown Foundation Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Hobby Family Foundation · Mechia Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund
How this is measured
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About The Kayser Foundation
- How much does The Kayser Foundation give?
- The Kayser Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $198,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Kayser Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (46%), Arts & Culture (10%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are The Kayser Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Astros Foundation ($58k), The Children's Fund Inc ($51k), Performing Arts Houston ($48k).
- Does The Kayser Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kayser Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Kayser Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Strake Foundation.
- Where is The Kayser Foundation based?
- The Kayser Foundation is based in TX.
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