Funder Standing / Musk Foundation

Musk Foundation

TX · EIN 852133087 · 100M+ · data as of FY2024
Adds new grantees regularly

34 of 53 organizations Musk Foundation funded in FY2024 had not been funded in the prior 3 years.

Across all compared years the rate is 59.1%. Foundations of a similar size sit at 31.9%.

The numbers

New-grantee rate
59.1%
Pooled across compared years
Median grant
$1,000,000
Range $10,000 – $205,784,489
Repeat-dollar share
74.5%
Dollars to prior-year grantees
Accepts unsolicited
No
Inferred from the filing — see below
Match rate
100.0%
Grant lines resolved to an organization
Filing years used
5
Consecutive returns on file

Who they funded in FY2024

RecipientAmount
THE FOUNDATION - SEE ATTACHMENT A$369,954,612
FIDELITY CHARITABLE$25,000,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE - SEE ATTACHMENT A$10,003,643
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE HEALTHCAREnew$7,157,000
X PRIZE FOUNDATION INC$5,450,000
WINDWARD SCHOOL$5,000,000
AUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITYnew$5,000,000
THE SETON FUNDnew$5,000,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$3,250,000
DIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATIONnew$3,250,000
THE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC$2,400,000
CODEORG$2,130,000
SCROLL PRIZE INCnew$2,084,000
TEAM RUBICON$2,000,000
OPERATION BBQ RELIEFnew$1,975,000
HACK FOUNDATION$1,810,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$1,500,000
GIVEDIRECTLY INC$1,400,000
MERCY CHEFS INCnew$1,260,000
FEEDING AMERICAnew$1,250,000
THE TRAIL FOUNDATION$1,100,000
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCnew$1,083,000
AMERICA INSTITUTE FOR ROMAN CULTURE INCnew$1,000,000
EUROPEAN JEWISH ASSOCIATIONnew$1,000,000
HEALTHCARE READYnew$1,000,000

Showing the 25 largest of 53 grants.

How to read this

Every US private foundation files Form 990-PF, and Part XV of that return itemises each grant it paid, with the recipient's name. Lining those lists up across filing years shows which organizations were funded for the first time.

That does work the application checkbox cannot. Whether a foundation says it accepts unsolicited proposals is self-reported and never audited. The grant ledger is behaviour.

What this page does not tell you. Whether your work fits what Musk Foundation funds — no tax return contains that. Whether anyone on your board already knows a trustee, which is how a great deal of foundation money actually moves. Or anything that has changed since the last filing, which runs twelve to twenty-four months behind.
Flagged for review. A high share of this funder's recipients appear in only one year. That is what genuine turnover looks like, and also what a renamed grantee looks like, so the figure above may be overstated. Match rate cannot distinguish the two.
Source. IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV line 3a (grants paid during the year), tax years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Excludes. Grants approved for future payment, which the return lists separately
Computed. 2026-08-03 · Next recompute. 2026-11-01
Distribution. GivingTuesday Data Lake mirror of the IRS e-file corpus

If this is your foundation.

Every figure here comes from your own filings. If one looks wrong I would rather hear it than keep publishing it — write to me and I will show you the filings and the arithmetic behind it, and correct it if it is off.