· Private foundation
Walter Connally Powell Jr 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Samaritan's Purse | $25,000 |
| US Space Rocket Center | $20,000 |
| Billy Graham Evangelistic Associati | $19,000 |
| Master Brewers Assn of America | $17,312 |
| The Independence Fund | $16,000 |
| Young America Foundation | $15,000 |
| Leadership Institute | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,000 |
| The NRA Foundation | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| People Attempting to Help | $7,000 |
| Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $5,000 |
| Accuracy in Media Inc | $5,000 |
| The Fisher House | $5,000 |
| Judicial Watch | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against -21% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE8× · 2017–2024 · $186k · revenue +134%
- TIThe Independence Fund Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $135k · revenue +13%
- YAYoung America's Foundation7× · 2018–2024 · $73k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +23%
- RSRobb School Memorial Fundone grant, 2022 · $5k
- TOTHE ONESTAR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -94%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.
Advancing the art and science of navigation, positioning, and timing. the institute of navigation (ion) is a membership organization incorporated in january 1967 for the purpose of advancing the art and science of navigation through…
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
To educate the membership and the general public about the american revolution and its patriots and to foster patriotism and appreciation of american freedoms
The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds The Independence Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds MASTER BREWERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS INC ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds NRA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHOIR SCHOOL OF EAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Mercury One Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACCURACY IN MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds K9 PARTNERS FOR PATRIOTS ↗
- Who funds THE ONESTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Paso del Norte Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ANIMAL INTEREST ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SMITH COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Walter Connally Powell Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walter Connally Powell Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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