How do I find funders for a science nonprofit in Texas?

Start with the funders already giving to science in Texas, currently Johns Hopkins University, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Endowment for Regional Sustainability Science. Then look at who funds the science organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Texas from out of state.

Who is the largest science funder in Texas?

Johns Hopkins University gives the most to science organizations in Texas, $102M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to science in Texas?

$434M reached 180 science organizations in Texas, from 673 funders. 43% came from funders also based in Texas.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Texas · Science

Who funds science in Texas

$434M reached 180 science organizations in Texas, from 673 funders, with no single one dominating.

$434M

granted

180

organizations

43%

from in-state

The short version

673 funders gave $434M to 180 science organizations in Texas across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
43% of that came from funders also based in Texas; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of science in Texas is Johns Hopkins University, at $102M.
The science organization drawing the most is Southwest Research Institute, at $112M.

Largest funders of science in Texas

The funders giving the most to science organizations in Texas, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Johns Hopkins University$102M 2Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$28M 3Endowment for Regional Sustainability Science$27M 4Brit Foundation$19M 5Silicon Valley Community Foundation$13M 6Mitchell Family Foundation$12M 7The Cockrell Foundation$12M 8Dan L Duncan Foundation$11M 9Emerging Light Foundation Inc$8M 10Gates Foundation$8M

Science organizations in Texas that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

Southwest Research Institute$112M Houston Museum of Natural Science$83M

170 other science organizations$82M

Houston Advanced Research Center$31M William Marsh Rice University$24M

How to find science funders in Texas

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Start with the funders already active in Texas
The funders giving the most to science in Texas are Johns Hopkins University, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Endowment for Regional Sustainability Science. A funder already writing science checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the science organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
57% of science money in Texas comes from funders elsewhere, so national science funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Texas.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a science nonprofit in Texas?: Start with the funders already giving to science in Texas, currently Johns Hopkins University, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Endowment for Regional Sustainability Science. Then look at who funds the science organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Texas from out of state.
Who is the largest science funder in Texas?: Johns Hopkins University gives the most to science organizations in Texas, $102M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to science in Texas?: $434M reached 180 science organizations in Texas, from 673 funders. 43% came from funders also based in Texas.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.