Texas · Private foundation
The Membery Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $187k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $119,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 6
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $145k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Membery Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 | 13 | $187k | 46% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $92k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $109k | 75% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $50k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $2k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $20k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Cedars Camps Inc | $331,098 | 5 | 2% |
| The Euphrates Institute | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Charles W Moore Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Chestnut Hill Benevolent Association | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Wide Horizon Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hymnstream | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Arden Wood Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Adventure Unlimited | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Peace Haven Association Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($92k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Membery 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: Tenacre Foundation · The Isabel Foundation · Mueller Hoisel Wanger Charitable Foundation Inc · The Borch Foundation · Spaulding Family Foundation · Annie Foundation · Toledo Community Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About The Membery Foundation
- How much does The Membery Foundation give?
- The Membery Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $186,550 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Membery Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (73%), Religion (10%), Arts & Culture (2%).
- Who are The Membery Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Cedars Camps Inc ($331k), The Euphrates Institute ($10k), Charles W Moore Foundation Inc ($10k).
- Does The Membery Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Membery Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Membery Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tenacre Foundation, The Isabel Foundation, Mueller Hoisel Wanger Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Membery Foundation based?
- The Membery Foundation is based in TX.
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