Texas · Private foundation
The Riddle Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $7k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2024
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $4,444
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $4,444
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 4
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $82k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations The Riddle Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 2 | $7k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $22k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $24k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $15k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $29k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas A&M University 12th Man Foundation | $54,912 | 5 | 0% |
| Young Life | $19,700 | 3 | 0% |
| Legacy Sports Training | $12,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Texas 4-H Youth Development Foundation I | $4,444 | 1 | 0% |
| Memorial Villages Police Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($3k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation
How this is measured
About The Riddle Foundation
- How much does The Riddle Foundation give?
- The Riddle Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $6,944 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Riddle Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (57%), Youth Development (38%), Public Safety & Disaster (2%).
- Who are The Riddle Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Texas A&M University 12th Man Foundation ($55k), Young Life ($20k), Legacy Sports Training ($12k).
- Does The Riddle Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Riddle Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Riddle Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation.
- Where is The Riddle Foundation based?
- The Riddle Foundation is based in TX.
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