Texas · Community foundation
Wharton County Community Foundation
To help meet the needs and enhance the quality of life in wharton county through grants to charitable organizations to fund educational opportunities.
- $188k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $130k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $21,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 4
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Wharton County Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 3 | $130k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $163k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $166k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $127k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $119k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $141k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $109k | 33% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $65k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hesed House of Wharton Inc | $400,000 | 4 | 38% |
| Wharton Isd | $332,592 | 6 | n/a |
| Texas A&M University | $164,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Wharton Recovery Team | $53,655 | 1 | 3% |
| Wharton County A&M Club | $26,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Horton Foote Legacy Inc | $20,402 | 1 | n/a |
| Little League Baseball Inc | $16,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sam Houston State University | $7,300 | 1 | n/a |
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About Wharton County Community Foundation
- How much does Wharton County Community Foundation give?
- Wharton County Community Foundation reported 3 itemized grants totaling $129,640, out of $187,540 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Wharton County Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (54%), Human Services (39%), Public Safety & Disaster (5%).
- Who are Wharton County Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hesed House of Wharton Inc ($400k), Wharton Isd ($333k), Texas A&M University ($164k).
- Does Wharton County Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Wharton County Community Foundation based?
- Wharton County Community Foundation is based in TX.
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