Texas · Private foundation
The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $14M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 68
- Grants FY2024
- 59
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,004,392
- Organizations funded a year
- 59 to 138
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $331M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $497k 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 | 42 | $14M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 59 | $13M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 70 | $12M | 24% |
| FY2021 | 89 | $14M | 22% |
| FY2020 | 95 | $14M | 34% |
| FY2018 | 129 | $17M | 45% |
| FY2017 | 138 | $18M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor College of Medicine | $12,460,311 | 4 | 0% |
| Houston Zoo Inc | $5,000,000 | 7 | 2% |
| University of South Carolina Educational Foundation | $4,568,892 | 3 | 2% |
| The Museum of Fine Arts Houston | $4,010,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Houston Christian University | $4,000,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Columbia College | $3,435,776 | 6 | 3% |
| United Way of Greater Houston | $2,250,000 | 7 | 1% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $1,600,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Pro-Vision Inc | $1,450,000 | 4 | 43% |
| Houston Grand Opera Association Inc | $1,250,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 154 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 126 recipients with no EIN on record ($41M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 136 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: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Mechia Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · MD Anderson Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation with peer funders
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About The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation
- How much does The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation give?
- The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation reported 68 grants totaling $13,813,073 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 59 and 138 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (33%), Education (33%), Arts & Culture (6%).
- Who are The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Baylor College of Medicine ($12M), Houston Zoo Inc ($5.0M), University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ($4.6M).
- Does The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Robert and Janice McNair 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 Robert and Janice McNair Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Strake Foundation.
- Where is The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation based?
- The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation is based in TX.
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