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Three G 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.

$645k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
24%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$159,542
Organizations funded a year
1 to 19
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$13M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Three G Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthEducationPublic BenefitCivil RightsRecreation & SportsOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving16$645k6%
FY202317$679k24%
FY202219$500k95%
FY20211$3kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$560kScience & Tech$400kHealth$345kEducation$275kPublic Benefit$205kRecreation & Sports$26kHuman Services$17k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
NJ
CA
VA
AZ
NM
TN
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Three G Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Houston Museum of Natural Science$399,73130%
The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc$250,00021%
Texas Heart Institute$110,00030%
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston$100,00030%
America First Policy Institute Inc$100,00030%
Houston Christian University$75,00030%
Texas Public Policy Foundation$75,00020%
Historic Houston$64,95015%
Prager University Foundation$50,00030%
Turning Point USA Inc$50,00030%
The Heritage Foundation$50,00030%
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum$50,00020%
Independent Women's Forum$30,00020%
Glenwood Cemetery Historic Preservation Foundation$30,00031%
United States Equestrian Team Foundation Inc$25,50030%
University of Texas Health Science Center Houston$25,0001n/a
The Salvation Army$17,0002n/a
Project Veritas$15,0001n/a
Kevin Babington Foundation$8,0002n/a
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention$7,50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($295k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Three G Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science: $399,731 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc: $250,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTexas Heart Institute: $110,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Museum of Fine Arts Houston: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerica First Policy Institute Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHouston Christian University: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Public Policy Foundation: $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHistoric Houston: $64,950 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetPrager University Foundation: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia O'Keeffe Museum: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIndependent Women's Forum: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGlenwood Cemetery Historic Preservation Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUnited States Equestrian Team Foundation Inc: $25,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Foundation for Suicide Prevention: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 16.

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.

Greater Houston Community FoundationTX16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Three G Foundation

How much does Three G Foundation give?
Three G Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $645,307 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 19 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Three G Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Science & Tech (22%), Health (19%).
Who are Three G Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Houston Museum of Natural Science ($400k), The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ($250k), Texas Heart Institute ($110k).
Does Three G Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Three G 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 Three G Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is Three G Foundation based?
Three G Foundation is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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