Funder Standing / The Powell Foundation

The Powell Foundation

TX · EIN 746104592 · 100M+ · data as of FY2024
Adds new grantees regularly

59 of 220 organizations The Powell Foundation funded in FY2024 had not been funded in the prior 3 years.

Across all compared years the rate is 35.4%. Foundations of a similar size sit at 31.9%.

The numbers

New-grantee rate
35.4%
Pooled across compared years
Median grant
$30,000
Range $100 – $1,207,779
Repeat-dollar share
64.1%
Dollars to prior-year grantees
Accepts unsolicited
Yes
Inferred from the filing — see below
Match rate
99.9%
Grant lines resolved to an organization
Filing years used
5
Consecutive returns on file

Who they funded in FY2024

RecipientAmount
Austin Ed Fund$1,364,779
MINDPOP$998,032
CollegeSpring$752,115
The Bridgespan Groupnew$717,895
Breakthrough Houston$703,151
The Center for First-generation Student Success DBA FirstGen Forward co NASnew$497,541
Children's Museum Houston$417,925
Greater Houston Community Foundation$302,000
Communities In Schools of Houston Inc$300,000
DiscoverU$300,000
Texas Children's Hospital$300,000
United Way for Greater Austin$300,000
Neuhaus Education Center$250,000
Texans Care for Children$250,000
The Woods Project$250,000
SEARCH Homeless Services$225,000
AVANCE - Austin$200,000
National Wildlife Federation$200,000
United Way of Greater Houston$200,000
Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute$200,000
Texas 2036$200,000
UTHealth Houstonnew$200,000
Brighter Bites$175,000
Huntsville Independent School Districtnew$175,000
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc$155,516

Showing the 25 largest of 220 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 The Powell 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.
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.