Grants awarded
Who does Kinder Foundation fund?
Kinder Foundation has awarded $338 million across 470 grants to 103 organizations between 2020 and 2025. Its giving concentrates in arts & culture. Its typical grant is $100,000, with most between $25,000 and $315,000.
Total awarded
$337.9M
Typical grant
$100K
Grantees
103
Grants
470
Years
2020–2025
Organizations this funder supports
Each grantee's funding from this organization, summed across all reported years. Largest first — click any column to re-sort.
| Grantee | Total received | Grants | Years | Latest | State | Follow |
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| R Rice University | $58.4M | 33 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
Buffalo Bayou Partnership INC
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$50.5M | 20 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | TX | |
Memorial Park Conservancy INC
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$34.6M | 27 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | TX | |
| U University of Missouri | $25.2M | 13 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| B Buffalo Bayou Partnership | $20.2M | 3 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
Good Reason Houston INC
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$15.9M | 22 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | TX | |
| M Memorial Park | $14.1M | 4 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
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$14.0M | 10 | 2020 | 2020 | MA | |
Houston Local Information Initiative INC
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$7.5M | 3 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | TX | |
Discovery Green Conservancy
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$7.0M | 17 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | TX | |
| U United Way | $6.1M | 12 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| S Spark Parks | $5.7M | 6 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| M Memorial Park Conservancy | $5.7M | 4 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
Houston Parks Board
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$5.5M | 11 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | TX | |
| H Houston Parks Board | $5.5M | 3 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
Project Row Houses
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$4.8M | 10 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | TX | |
| W Willow Waterhole Conservancy | $4.0M | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| B Buffalo Soldiers Museum | $3.6M | 8 | 2021–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
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$3.5M | 7 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | TX | |
| E Emancipation Park Conservancy | $3.5M | 4 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| K Kipp | $2.9M | 18 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston
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$2.5M | 16 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | TX | |
| U University of Virginia | $2.5M | 2 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
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$2.0M | 8 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | TX | |
The Houston Food Bank
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$2.0M | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | TX | |
Emancipation Park Conservancy
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$1.9M | 9 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | TX | |
| G Greater Houston Community Foundation | $1.8M | 18 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| C Cristo Rey Jesuit | $1.8M | 4 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| D Discovery Green Conservancy | $1.6M | 6 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| D Depelchin Children's Center | $1.6M | 3 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| C Coalition for the Homeless of Houstonharris County | $1.5M | 2 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| C Catholic Charities | $1.5M | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| A Archdiocese of Galveston Houston | $1.3M | 9 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| L Lucille's 1913 | $1.3M | 5 | 2021–2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| H Hisd Foundation | $1.3M | 7 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| H Houston Methodist Hospital Foundation | $1.0M | 7 | 2022–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| C Cristo Rey Jesuit School | $1.0M | 9 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| D Discovery Green | $1.0M | 7 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| H Harris Health Strategic Fund | $1.0M | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
Houston Arts Alliance
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$1.0M | 3 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | TX | |
The Montrose Center
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$1.0M | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | TX | |
| B Baker Ripley | $994K | 2 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
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$750K | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | TX | |
| G Good Reason Houston | $685K | 2 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| H Houston Parks and Recreation Dept | $550K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| M Museum of Fine Arts Houston | $501K | 4 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
Prounitas INC
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$500K | 3 | 2021–2022 | 2022 | TX | |
Depelchin Children's Center
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$500K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | TX | |
| M MD Anderson | $429K | 10 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| Y Yes Prep Public Schools | $420K | 2 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
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$351K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | TX | |
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$350K | 6 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | TX | |
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$316K | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
| B Blue Triangle Multi-Cultural Association | $300K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
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$255K | 6 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | TX | |
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$250K | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | TX | |
| T Teach for America | $202K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| U University of Houston Research Center | $194K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
The Philanthropy Roundtable INC
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$100K | 3 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | DC | |
| H Houston Grand Opera | $100K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| T Texans by Nature | $100K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| C Central Houston Civic Improvement INC | $100K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | TX | |
Hspva Friends
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$100K | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | TX | |
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$100K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | TX | |
| H Houston Center for Contemporary Craft | $75K | 2 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| U University of Texas at Austin | $50K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| R Rho Chapter Sigma Nu Educational Fund | $50K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| T (the) Rise School | $50K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
Houston Area Urban League INC
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$50K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | TX | |
| T The Menil Collection | $50K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
Houston Botanic Garden
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$50K | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | TX | |
Urban Harvest INC
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$41K | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | TX | |
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$40K | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | TX | |
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$30K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | TX | |
| A Aldine Education Foundation | $30K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| P Project Row Houses | $30K | 2 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| K Khspva Friends | $25K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| B Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens | $25K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
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$25K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | TX | |
| H Houston Botanic Garden | $25K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| T Trees for Houston | $25K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| T Texas Business Hall of Fame | $25K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| H Hspva Friends | $25K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
Jewish Federation of Greater Houston
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$25K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | TX | |
| H Houston Children's Chorus | $20K | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| C Central Houston Civic Improvement INC | $20K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
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$15K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | TX | |
| H Houston Cinema Arts Society | $10K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| H Houston Cinema Arts | $10K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| T Texas Mission of Mercy INC | $10K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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$10K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | TX | |
| T The Lyford Cay Club Charitable Trust INC | $5K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | FL | |
Houston Museum of Natural Science
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$5K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | TX | |
| T Texas Legislative Internship Program | $2K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
Texas Heart Institute
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$2K | 2 | 2020 | 2020 | TX | |
| K Kinder Institute for Constitutional Democracy | $2K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| K Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care | $1K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| U Uofh Gerald D Hines College of Architecture and Design | $1K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| U University of Texas Health Science Center of Houston | $1K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| S St John Berchman's Academy | $1K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
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