Texas · Private foundation
The Stanton 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.
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 85%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $59,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $800,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 20
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 85% of the organizations The Stanton Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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 | $3.0M | 82% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $187k | 85% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $170k | 71% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $70k | 83% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $128k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Marsh Rice University | $516,700 | 3 | 0% |
| Strake Jesuit College Prep | $431,673 | 1 | n/a |
| St Thomas High School | $401,677 | 1 | n/a |
| Episcopal High School | $110,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Post Oak Baseball Foundation | $65,000 | 2 | 16% |
| St Martins Episcopal Church | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Methodist Hospital Foundation | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Foundation for American Security and Freedom Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Garden Club of Houston | $20,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Little League Baseball Inc 3431607 Post Oak LL | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Stanton 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · William S & Lora Jean Kilroy Foundation · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · Sterling-Turner Foundation · Strake Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greentree Fund · Hildebrand Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation
How this is measured
About The Stanton Foundation
- How much does The Stanton Foundation give?
- The Stanton Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $2,986,081 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 20 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Stanton Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (55%), Religion (32%), Health (6%).
- Who are The Stanton Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: William Marsh Rice University ($517k), Strake Jesuit College Prep ($432k), St Thomas High School ($402k).
- Does The Stanton Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 85% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Stanton 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 Stanton Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Stanton Foundation based?
- The Stanton Foundation is based in TX.
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