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Webber Foundation

Houston, TX · EIN 75-6036145. Reported 64 grants totalling $881,400 to 38 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$881,400granted, 2021-2024
38organizations funded
62%of grantees funded again the next year
$195,084assets, 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. Webber 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 $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $200 and $5,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $750,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
26 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
22 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
14 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant
$100,000 and Up
1 grant

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
Greater Houston Community Foundation-Webber Family FdHouston, TX$750,000112024
St John Divine ChurchHouston, TX$21,200332023
Museum of Fine ArtsHouston, TX$21,000442024
Methodist Hospital FoundationHouston, TX$15,700332023
Episcopal High SchoolBellaire, TX$11,500332023
Houston Arboretum & NautreHouston, TX$7,750222023
Glenwood Cemetery FoundationHouston, TX$6,100332023
Depelchin Childrens CenterHouston, TX$5,700332023
George Washington's Mount VernonMount Vernon, VA$5,500332023
Houston Botanic GardenHouston, TX$5,250112024
St Martins ChurchHouston, TX$5,200112021
St Pauls ChurchHouston, TX$5,000112024
Chesapeake AcademyIrvington, VA$3,500332023
The Hub HoustonHouston, TX$2,500112023
Newhaus Education CenterBellaire, TX$2,100112022
Neuhaus Education CenterBellaire, TX$2,000112023
Forge for FamiliesHouston, TX$1,600112021
Texas Children's HospitalHouston, TX$1,200332023
Boys & Girls Country of HoustonHockley, TX$1,100222023
Boys & Girls ClubAtlanta, GA$1,000112022
Kickstart KidsHouston, TX$1,000112021
Mt Vernon Ladies AccociationMount Vernon, VA$1,000112022
River Oaks Garden ClubHouston, TX$900332023
Star of HopeHouston, TX$600332023
Sweet Briar FundSweet Briar, VA$500112023
Sweet BriarSweet Briar, VA$400222022
International Justice MissionWashington, DC$250112022
Bayou Bend Garden EndowmentHouston, TX$200112023
Brookwood CommunityBrookshire, TX$200112022
Houston HospiceHouston, TX$200112024
Museum of Natural ScienceHouston, TX$200112023
St Martin's ChurchHouston, TX$200112023
The Nick Finnegan Counceling CenterHouston, TX$200112021
University of Houston Law FoundationHouston, TX$200112023
Nick Finnigan Counseling CenterHouston, TX$150112023
Forum of Civics FoundationHouston, TX$100112023
Greater Houston Community FoundationHouston, TX$100112022
Houston Food BankHouston, TX$100112022

14 of 38 (37%) 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 62%, 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 kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 33 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
8 grants
Arts & Culture
7 grants
Human Services
5 grants
Environment
4 grants
Health Care
3 grants
Housing & Shelter
3 grants
Medical Research
1 grant
Crime & Legal
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202116$34,900$1,000
202221$43,300$1,000
202322$37,750$500
20245$765,450$5,000

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. 99% 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
$869K
Virginia
$11K
Georgia
$1K
District of Columbia
$250

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund18 shared recipientsGreater Houston Community Foundation16 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc15 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc15 shared recipientsThe Brown Foundation Inc13 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust13 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. 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 Webber 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: 5615 Kirby Suite 360, Houston, TX, 77005. 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 75-6036145 · 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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