How much does The West Endowment give?

The West Endowment reported 16 grants totaling $578,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The West Endowment fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (39%), Education (20%), Human Services (13%).

Who are The West Endowment's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Methodist Hospital Foundation ($295k), TIRR Foundation ($150k), Coastal Prairie Conservancy ($125k).

Does The West Endowment fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The West Endowment accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The West Endowment?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation.

Where is The West Endowment based?

The West Endowment is based in TX.

Foundation Dossiers

Texas · Private foundation

The West Endowment

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$578k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 16
Grants FY2025: 13
Organizations funded FY2024: 62%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $100,000
Organizations funded a year: 13 to 21; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $11M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 62% of the organizations The West Endowment funded were first-time grantees, receiving 74% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $403k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	16	$578k	56%
FY2024	13	$548k	62%
FY2023	20	$566k	45%
FY2022	19	$619k	74%
FY2021	21	$581k	100%
FY2020	14	$571k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$1.3MEducation$705kHuman Services$457kArts & Culture$278kEnvironment$265kYouth Development$115kHousing & Shelter$55kScience & Tech$50kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Methodist Hospital Foundation	$295,000	3	0%
TIRR Foundation	$150,000	2	8%
Coastal Prairie Conservancy	$125,000	3	1%
Annunciation Orthodox School	$100,000	1	n/a
Camp For All Foundation	$100,000	1	0%
Lone Star Flight Museum	$100,000	2	1%
Houston's Amazing Place Inc	$95,000	3	1%
Trinity School of Midland Texas	$90,000	1	0%
The Brookwood Community Inc	$85,000	1	0%
Houston Hospice	$85,000	4	0%

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All grantees of The West Endowment by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Methodist Hospital Foundation	$295,000	3	0%
TIRR Foundation	$150,000	2	8%
Coastal Prairie Conservancy	$125,000	3	1%
Annunciation Orthodox School	$100,000	1	n/a
Camp For All Foundation	$100,000	1	0%
Lone Star Flight Museum	$100,000	2	1%
Houston's Amazing Place Inc	$95,000	3	1%
Trinity School of Midland Texas	$90,000	1	0%
The Brookwood Community Inc	$85,000	1	0%
Houston Hospice	$85,000	4	0%
Episcopal High School	$75,000	1	n/a
Joy Development School	$75,000	1	1%
Covenant House Texas	$75,000	1	1%
Trinity University	$75,000	1	0%
The Will Erwin Headache Research Foundation	$60,000	2	7%
Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas	$55,000	1	0%
Houston Area Women's Center	$50,000	1	0%
Epilepsy Foundation of Texas	$50,000	3	1%
Manned Space Flight Education Foundation Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Memorial Park Conservancy Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Battleship Texas Foundation	$50,000	1	0%
Heart of Texas Foundation College of Ministry	$50,000	2	4%
Ronald McDonald House Charities Greater Houston Inc	$46,000	2	0%
Palacios Medical Foundation	$45,000	1	n/a
Remind	$44,000	3	1%
CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare	$40,000	1	1%
Chinquapin Preparatory School	$35,000	2	1%
Nature Discovery Center	$35,000	2	3%
Outreach Center of West Houston Inc	$35,000	1	6%
Bolivar Point Lighthouse Foundation Inc	$33,000	1	17%
Gracewood Inc	$30,000	2	1%
New Hope Housing Inc	$30,000	1	0%
The Matagorda Bay Foundation	$30,000	1	2%
Communities in Schools of Houston Inc	$30,000	2	0%
Hope and Healing Center & Institute	$25,000	1	1%
St Andrews Church & School Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Star of Hope Mission	$25,000	1	0%
Harris County Hospital District Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
Homemade Hope for Homeless Children	$25,000	1	7%
Archway Academy	$25,000	1	2%
Houston Area Parkinson Society	$25,000	1	n/a
Cypress Creek Fine Art Association	$25,000	1	3%
Houston Christian High School	$25,000	1	n/a
Glenwood Cemetery Historic Preservation Foundation	$25,000	1	2%
Bellville Medical Center	$25,000	1	0%
Houston Eye Associates Foundation	$25,000	1	9%
Texas Rice Industry Coalition for T Environment	$20,000	1	5%
Making It Better dba Literacy Now	$20,000	1	1%
Cypress Woodlands Junior Forum	$20,000	1	8%
Casa de Esperanza de Los Ninos Inc	$20,000	2	0%
P4L dba Lemonade Day	$15,000	1	1%
Guide Dogs of Texas Inc	$15,000	1	1%
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation	$15,000	1	0%
Christ Church Cathedral	$10,000	1	n/a
Cherish Our Children Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Neuro Assistance Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
Child Advocates Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Da Camera Society of Texas	$10,000	1	0%
KIPP Texas Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Cinco Charities Inc	$8,000	1	1%
Volunteer Interfaith Caregivers SW	$5,600	1	2%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($591k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The West Endowment supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 54.

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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.

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Open a dossier: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Strake Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · MD Anderson Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Sterling-Turner Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · The Junior League of Houston Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The West Endowment

How much does The West Endowment give?: The West Endowment reported 16 grants totaling $578,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The West Endowment fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (39%), Education (20%), Human Services (13%).
Who are The West Endowment's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Methodist Hospital Foundation ($295k), TIRR Foundation ($150k), Coastal Prairie Conservancy ($125k).
Does The West Endowment fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The West Endowment accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The West Endowment?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation.
Where is The West Endowment based?: The West Endowment is based in TX.