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Kathleen Cailloux Family Foundation

Kerrville, TX · EIN 74-2857513. Reported 55 grants totalling $4,096,763 to 29 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$15,000median grant
$4,096,763granted, 2021-2024
29organizations funded
56%of grantees funded again the next year
$21.3Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Kathleen Cailloux Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $15,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $6,000 and $70,000; the smallest was $2,500 and the largest $499,878. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
3 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
13 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
18 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
5 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
4 grants
$100,000 and Up
12 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Schreiner UniversityKerrville, TX$1,651,461442024
Shriners Hospitals for ChildrenTampa, FL$825,732442024
University Texas SystemAustin, TX$825,731442024
Saint Gabriels Catholic SchoolAustin, TX$266,615442024
Galveston County Fair & RodeoSanta Fe, TX$90,000332023
Smart Family Literacy IncGalveston, TX$77,500442024
Santa Fe Texas Education FoundationSanta Fe, TX$53,000222022
Sante Fe Fire & Rescue IncSante Fe, TX$35,169112024
Southwest Austin Catholic SchoolAustin, TX$32,978112022
Grace ChurchHouston, TX$30,000222024
Apm Outreach Inc (anchor Point Grant)League City, TX$25,000222023
Backpack Buddy - Santa Fe TexasSanta Fe, TX$25,000222024
Santa Fe Texas Citizens PoliceSanta Fe, TX$20,000112022
Grace Community ChurchHouston, TX$15,000112023
Grace Leadership CollegeHouston, TX$15,000112021
The Sanctuary Foster CareHouston, TX$13,500332024
Communities in School Bay Area IncHouston, TX$12,500332024
Anchor PointBoulder, CO$11,000112021
Anchor PointHouston, TX$10,000112024
Santa Fe Area Historical FoundationSanta Fe, TX$10,000112021
Higher Up TexasLeague City, TX$7,500222024
Santa Fe Family ServicesSanta Fe, TX$7,500112023
College of the Mainland FoundationTexas City, TX$6,577112021
Communitites in School Bay Area IncHouston, TX$5,000112021
Galveston-Houston Families Exploring Down SyndromeHouston, TX$5,000112021
Go Forth Elementary Gears Booster ClubLeague City, TX$5,000112022
Saint Paul of the Apostle Catholic ChurchHouston, TX$5,000112022
Santa Fe Senior Citizens Council IncSanta Fe, TX$5,000112021
Second Chance PetsLeague City, TX$5,000112023

13 of 29 (45%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 56%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
12 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Youth Development
2 grants
Animal Welfare
1 grant
Arts & Culture
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202114$900,958$15,000
202216$1,249,697$20,000
202313$979,739$15,000
202412$966,369$18,750

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 80% of this one's giving went to organizations in Texas. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Texas
$3.3M
Florida
$826K
Colorado
$11K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $15,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Texas.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Kathleen Cailloux Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 1145 Junction Hwy, Kerrville, TX, 78028. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 74-2857513 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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