Texas · Private foundation
Waterproof Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $454k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Waterproof Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 21 | $449k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $452k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $419k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $525k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $427k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $427k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $408k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $375k | 17% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $2,105,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Uatx | $400,000 | 4 | 1% |
| St Andrew's Episcopal School | $163,000 | 9 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America | $80,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Heartgift Foundation | $75,010 | 9 | 0% |
| Feed the Hungry San Miguel Inc | $70,000 | 7 | 2% |
| KIPP Texas Inc | $45,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Beyond Batten Disease Foundation | $45,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wonders & Worries Inc | $40,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($496k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Waterproof Foundation Inc 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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shepherd 5 Points Family Foundation · The Webber Family Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Moody Foundation · Better Business Bureau · United Way Worldwide · Central Texas Community Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation
How this is measured
About Waterproof Foundation Inc
- How much does Waterproof Foundation Inc give?
- Waterproof Foundation Inc reported 22 grants totaling $454,005 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Waterproof Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (74%), Health (10%), Environment (4%).
- Who are Waterproof Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($2.1M), Uatx ($400k), St Andrew's Episcopal School ($163k).
- Does Waterproof Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Waterproof Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Waterproof Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Shepherd 5 Points Family Foundation.
- Where is Waterproof Foundation Inc based?
- Waterproof Foundation Inc is based in TX.
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