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.

The Krist Foundation

The Krist Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

The Krist Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$76k

Granted FY2026still arriving

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$20k

Largest

01What it funds

0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.1MEducation$457kCrime & Legal$178kAnimals$100kArts & Culture$58kHuman Services$54kYouth Development$47kFood & Nutrition$40kOther$0

02FY2026 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

Under $10k8 grants · $41k
$10k–50k2 grants · $35k

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$2.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY	$20,000
STTHOMASTHEAPOSTLE EPISCOPALCHURCH	$15,000
THE BEACON	$8,000
BAY AREA TURNING POINT	$8,000
DREME SCIENCE LITERACY FOUNDATION	$7,500
INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF TRIAL LAWYERS	$5,000
PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN	$5,000
CARITAS OF AUSTIN	$5,000
CHANGING HEARTS AND MIND PROGRAM INC (CHAMP)	$1,000
PEOPLES COMMUNITY CLINIC	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–26, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.0M · 35 repeat orgs$290k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2026, 31 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.0M

$263k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+10%

Still filing today

54%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

BC
Baylor College of Medicine
4× · 2018–2021 · $325k · revenue +49%
IA
INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF TRIAL LAWYERS FOUNDATION
3× · 2017–2020 · $107k · revenue +5%
TU
The University of Texas Law School Foundation
2× · 2017–2018 · $106k · revenue +146%

Funded once

UO
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS WEATHERFORD PET CENTER
one grant, 2017 · $100k
PF
PARTNERSHIPS FOR PERMANENCE
one grant, 2025 · $25k · revenue 0%
Central Texas Food Bank Inc
one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -12%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Texas Children's Hospital

Texas children's hospital, headquartered in houston, texas, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and…

Health

Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…

Civil Rights

Texas Trust Gives

Philanthropy

Baylor Research Institute

To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health

Texans for Lawsuit Reform Foundation

Philanthropy

Greater Texas Foundation

Education

Texas Bar Foundation

The Foundation solicits charitable contributions and provides funding to enhance the rule of law and the system of justice in Texas, especially for programs that relate to the administration of justice; ethics in the legal profession;…

Crime & Legal

American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

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William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education

Forty First Foundation

The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…

Education

Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

—

Texas Bankers Foundation

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Methodist Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Astros Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 73 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

37/40

Grantees still filing

27/40

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,318,164Education$517,000Health$201,400International$107,000Human Services$77,000Philanthropy$44,700Arts & Culture$35,080

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Greater Houston Community FoundationTX18× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Krist Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Krist Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home