Comiskey Foundation

Greater Houston Community Foundation

Houston, TX

The Foundation makes grants through donor-advised and other donor-established funds for public benefit, human services, education, and health, including initiatives addressing economic mobility and poverty in Harris County. In 2024, its median grant was $25,000; it serves Greater Houston, while grants also go to recipients elsewhere in Texas and beyond. It does not accept proposals for the upcoming High-Impact Grantmaking cycle and plans to invite selected organizations or collaboratives to apply.

Enterprise Holdings Foundation

Saint Louis, MO

Enterprise Holdings Foundation supports nonprofits in health, education, arts, disaster relief, reforestation, hunger relief, and community equity, with an emphasis on organizations actively supported by Enterprise employees and their families. Its reported grants range widely: 2024 giving averaged about $7,700 across 9,499 grants, while the foundation also offers awards of up to $40,000; it supports communities where Enterprise operates worldwide. Unsolicited requests are accepted at any time, but eligible applications must be submitted by an Enterprise team member or their spouse or domestic partner on behalf of a nonprofit they actively support.

Dallas Jewish Community Foundation

Dallas, TX

The Dallas Jewish Community Foundation supports charitable, educational, healthcare, social-service, and community initiatives, including Jewish institutions and organizations. Its 2025 grants had a median of $19,240, with 51% of grant dollars going to Texas recipients, though it also funds elsewhere. The profile does not state whether it accepts unsolicited grant requests.

The Planetary Trust

Dallas, TX

The Planetary Trust supports energy research and electric transportation, environmental conservation, education, volunteerism, and community arts, with most 2024 funding going to organizations in Texas and Colorado. Its 20 grants totaled about $469,000, with a median award of $10,000 and grants ranging from $20 to $130,000. It funds only preselected charities and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Meadows Foundation Inc

Dallas, TX

The Meadows Foundation funds Texas organizations working in areas such as education, arts and culture, the environment, homelessness, health, and mental health. Its 2024 grants ranged from $500 to nearly $4.93 million, with a median grant of $75,000. It accepts proposals, allowing one proposal every 12 months.

The Brown Foundation Inc

Houston, TX

The Brown Foundation funds education, arts and culture, healthcare, human services, and civic assets, with education and the arts as top priorities and public education giving focused almost exclusively on greater Houston. Its 2025 grants ranged from $20,000 to $11 million, with a median of $50,000; it primarily supports Houston organizations and selectively funds distinctive opportunities elsewhere in Texas and beyond.

The Powell Foundation

Houston, TX

The Powell Foundation funds public education, the arts, conservation, and human services, with a focus on Harris, Travis, and Walker Counties, Texas. Its 2025 grants ranged from $50 to $1.5 million, with a median grant of $15,000. Organizations can submit an online pre-application; full applications are by invitation.

Communities Foundation of Texas Inc

Dallas, TX

Communities Foundation of Texas funds charitable work in health, wealth, living, and learning, with much of its grantmaking supporting North Texas nonprofits; its 2025 grants had a median of $18,779, though award sizes varied widely. Nearly all opportunities are by invitation, and its Nonprofit Gateway profile is not a grant application.

BNSF Railway Foundation

Fort Worth, TX

The BNSF Railway Foundation supports civic, cultural, educational, health and human services, environmental, and youth programs, as well as general operating costs, in communities served by BNSF across its 28-state network. Its 2025 median grant was $2,500; its current grants program lists awards of $1,000–$10,000.

Baker Hughes Foundation

Houston, TX

Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax

Fort Worth, TX

The Community Foundation of North Texas supports nonprofits through grants for areas including animal welfare, conservation, community development, nonprofit capacity, and opportunity, primarily in North Texas, including seven listed counties. Its 2024 grants had a median amount of $14,250, with awards ranging from $5,100 to $1.5 million. It offers competitive grants through application cycles; nonprofits cannot apply for donor-advised grants.