Texas · Private foundation
The Parten 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.
- $110k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations The Parten Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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 | 17 | $110k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $118k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $100k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $87k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $88k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $53k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $107k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $38k | 25% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Tech Foundation Inc | $72,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $61,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Madison County House of Hope Inc | $50,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Ukrainian American Cultural Club of Houston | $35,000 | 2 | 33% |
| St Stephen's Episcopal School | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Access Care of Coastal Texas Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Benevolent Missions International | $28,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $22,500 | 2 | 0% |
| ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cca Texas Fund | $15,500 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($274k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Parten Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Still Water Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About The Parten Foundation
- How much does The Parten Foundation give?
- The Parten Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $109,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Parten Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (18%), Human Services (17%), Arts & Culture (16%).
- Who are The Parten Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Texas Tech Foundation Inc ($72k), The Houston Food Bank ($61k), Madison County House of Hope Inc ($50k).
- Does The Parten Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Parten 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 Parten Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, Still Water Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation.
- Where is The Parten Foundation based?
- The Parten Foundation is based in TX.
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