· Private foundation
Waterproof Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNC-CHAPEL HILL | $200,000 |
| UATX | $100,000 |
| ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION | $10,005 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC | $10,000 |
| TEXAS WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MD ANDERSON | $10,000 |
| PROVIDENCE MONTANA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LA'ARETZ FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WONDERS & WORRIES | $5,000 |
| TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| PEASE PARK CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE SETON FUND | $4,000 |
| ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +62% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UUATX4× · 2022–2025 · $400k · revenue +401%
- SAST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $163k · revenue +91%
- LELEADERSHIP ENTERPRISE FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA6× · 2017–2022 · $80k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -4%
- CICICERO INSTITUTEone grant, 2021 · $10k
- RARED ARENA INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
Texas children's hospital, headquartered in houston, texas, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and…
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.
To provide broader recognition of the state's top achievers in medicine, engineering and science, and to build a stronger identity for texas as an important destination and center of achievement in these fields.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 48 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 UATX ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP ENTERPRISE FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEED THE HUNGRY SAN MIGUEL INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BATTEN DISEASE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wonders & Worries Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Pease Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds THE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Book Festival ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN EXPLORE INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD LAKERS INC ↗
- Who funds RED ARENA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Waterproof Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Waterproof Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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