Texas · Private foundation
The Ralph H and Ruth J McCullough 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.
- $600k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 58
- Grants FY2025
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 49 to 56
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations The Ralph H and Ruth J McCullough Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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 | 57 | $600k | 35% |
| FY2024 | 54 | $600k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 56 | $630k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $535k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $535k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 51 | $570k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 49 | $510k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 49 | $510k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phi Delta Theta Foundation | $317,500 | 8 | 2% |
| The Council on Recovery | $200,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Texas Heart Institute | $195,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Inc | $145,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Houston Maritime Museum | $145,000 | 6 | 11% |
| Children's Cancer Fund of Dallas inc | $95,000 | 8 | 2% |
| The Museum of Fine Arts Houston | $95,000 | 5 | 0% |
| New Key School Inc | $91,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Baylor University | $90,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Atascocita Methodist Church | $90,000 | 5 | n/a |
Show all 103 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($792k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ralph H and Ruth J McCullough Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 79 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: The William a and Madeline Welder Smith Foundation Attn Kay Parker · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Strake Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · Sterling-Turner Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Ralph H and Ruth J McCullough Foundation
- How much does The Ralph H and Ruth J McCullough Foundation give?
- The Ralph H and Ruth J McCullough Foundation reported 58 grants totaling $600,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 56 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Ralph H and Ruth J McCullough Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Health (24%), Arts & Culture (17%).
- Who are The Ralph H and Ruth J McCullough Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Phi Delta Theta Foundation ($318k), The Council on Recovery ($200k), Texas Heart Institute ($195k).
- Does The Ralph H and Ruth J McCullough Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ralph H and Ruth J McCullough 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 Ralph H and Ruth J McCullough Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William a and Madeline Welder Smith Foundation Attn Kay Parker, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Ralph H and Ruth J McCullough Foundation based?
- The Ralph H and Ruth J McCullough Foundation is based in TX.
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