Texas · Private foundation
The Ruth and Edward Austin 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.
- $142k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations The Ruth and Edward Austin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% 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 | 31 | $130k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $125k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $124k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $124k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $104k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $106k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $85k | 4% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $127k | 0% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eisenhower Medical Center | $228,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Familiescn2a Foundation Inc | $121,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Saint Marys Hall Inc | $41,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Texas Biomedical Research Institute | $40,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Harmon Recovery Foundation | $40,000 | 5 | 3% |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $31,000 | 8 | 0% |
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $22,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of the Incarnate Word | $18,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The United Way Inc | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
| McC Foundation Inc | $16,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($335k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ruth and Edward Austin 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: Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · The Brown Foundation Inc · Joseph & Martye Rubin Foundation · The Ewing Halsell Foundation · Mays Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ld Ormsby Charitable Foundation Inc · Fb Doane Foundation · The Jesse H and Susan R Oppenheimer Foundation · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · Amy Shelton McNutt Charitable Trust · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Ruth and Edward Austin Foundation with peer funders
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About The Ruth and Edward Austin Foundation
- How much does The Ruth and Edward Austin Foundation give?
- The Ruth and Edward Austin Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $142,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Ruth and Edward Austin Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (52%), Education (24%), Philanthropy (8%).
- Who are The Ruth and Edward Austin Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Eisenhower Medical Center ($228k), The Familiescn2a Foundation Inc ($121k), Saint Marys Hall Inc ($41k).
- Does The Ruth and Edward Austin Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ruth and Edward Austin 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 Ruth and Edward Austin Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992, The Brown Foundation Inc, Joseph & Martye Rubin Foundation.
- Where is The Ruth and Edward Austin Foundation based?
- The Ruth and Edward Austin Foundation is based in TX.
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