Texas · Private foundation
The Krist Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $76k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2026
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 26
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 3
- Total assets, FY2026
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 60% of the organizations The Krist Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 10 | $76k | 60% |
| FY2025 | 5 | $80k | 60% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $33k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $78k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $70k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $182k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $372k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $484k | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carole and Ronald Krist Samaritan Counseling Center | $385,339 | 4 | 8% |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $325,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Methodist Hospital Foundation | $173,500 | 5 | 0% |
| International Academy of Trial Lawyers Foundation | $107,000 | 3 | 21% |
| The University of Texas Law School Foundation | $106,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Pepperdine University | $82,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Avda | $38,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Bay Area Turning Point Inc | $33,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Holocaust Museum Houston | $32,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($767k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Krist 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 · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Moody Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jeff B and Katherine B Love Foundation · The Kayser Foundation · Hobby Family Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
About The Krist Foundation
- How much does The Krist Foundation give?
- The Krist Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $75,500 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 26 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does The Krist Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Health (50%), Education (21%), Crime & Legal (8%).
- Who are The Krist Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Carole and Ronald Krist Samaritan Counseling Center ($385k), Baylor College of Medicine ($325k), The Methodist Hospital Foundation ($174k).
- Does The Krist Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Krist Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Krist Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Austin Community Foundation Inc, The Moody Foundation.
- Where is The Krist Foundation based?
- The Krist Foundation is based in TX.
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