Precinct4Forward
Houston, TX
$1.5MTax year 2025
Grant purpose
Conservation: Connecting People to Nature
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The Powell Foundation Grants
Private foundation · EIN 74-6104592 · IRS 990-PF filings through tax year 2025
How to apply
This foundation publishes application instructions on its latest 990-PF and does not report restricting giving to preselected organizations. See more foundations that accept applications.
- Contact
- httpspowellfoundationorgapplication
- Phone
- (713) 523-7557
- Deadlines
- Refer to the website for the application process and deadlines.
- Application materials
- Organizations interested in applying for a Powell Foundation grant must submit an online pre-application form. If the pre-application is advanced, the organization will be invited to submit a full application via the Powell Foundation's online Grant Portal. The Powell Foundation Board of Directors makes all final decisions about grant requests during the Spring (May) and Fall (November) Board Meetings. Organizations approved for funding must sign and return a grant agreement for disbursement. Refer to the website for grant guidelines.
- Restrictions
- The Powell Foundation is dedicated to catalyzing progress in public education, the arts, conservation, and human services. Funding is focused on the Foundation's geographic areas of interest in Harris, Travis, or Walker Counties, Texas. Requesting organizations must be tax-exempt under IRC 501(c)(3). This includes public charities, government organizations, and eligible supporting organizations. No grants are made to individuals, endowments, scholarship funds, private foundations, fundraising/marketing events, debt retirement/past operating deficits, candidates for political office or to influence specific legislation, or for realizing religious or doctrinal purpose. 2025 Giving: Education $12.3M (65%) and Supportive Communities: the Arts $2.2M (11%), Conservation $3M (16%), and Human Services $1.6M (8%).
Original filing text
- Contact
- httpspowellfoundationorgapplication
- Address
- 2001 Kirby Drive Suite 1011 Houston, TX, 77019
- Phone
- 7135237557
- grants@powellfoundation.org
- Deadlines
- Refer to the website for the application process and deadlines.
- Application materials
- Organizations interested in applying for a Powell Foundation grant must submit an online pre-application form. If the pre-application is advanced, the organization will be invited to submit a full application via the Powell Foundation's online Grant Portal. The Powell Foundation Board of Directors makes all final decisions about grant requests during the Spring (May) and Fall (November) Board Meetings. Organizations approved for funding must sign and return a grant agreement for disbursement. Refer to the website for grant guidelines.
- Restrictions
- The Powell Foundation is dedicated to catalyzing progress in public education, the arts, conservation, and human services. Funding is focused on the Foundation's geographic areas of interest in Harris, Travis, or Walker Counties, Texas. Requesting organizations must be tax-exempt under IRC 501(c)(3). This includes public charities, government organizations, and eligible supporting organizations. No grants are made to individuals, endowments, scholarship funds, private foundations, fundraising/marketing events, debt retirement/past operating deficits, candidates for political office or to influence specific legislation, or for realizing religious or doctrinal purpose. 2025 Giving: Education $12.3M (65%) and Supportive Communities: the Arts $2.2M (11%), Conservation $3M (16%), and Human Services $1.6M (8%).
Reported organization name: The Powell Foundation
Current grant programs
Opportunities and giving programs published on The Powell Foundation's website. Confirm details with the foundation before applying.
Giving by tax year
Year-level totals across every reported grant in this profile — a summary, not a filter. The awards further down are the largest individual grants across all years, not each year's complete list.
| Tax year | Grants paid | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 271 | $20.4M |
| 2024 | 276 | $18.5M |
Where The Powell Foundation gives
States of grant recipients reported on the foundation's 990-PF filings, by dollars received.
Largest reported grants
Historical awards reported to the IRS. These are examples of past giving, not open opportunities.
Boys & Girls Club of Walker County
Huntsville, TX
$1.3MTax year 2025
Grant purpose
Post-Secondary Pathways: Post-Secondary Access and Success
Austin Ed Fund
Austin, TX
$1.2MTax year 2024
Grant purpose
Post-Secondary Pathways: Post-Secondary Access and Success
The Holdsworth Center
Austin, TX
$981.2KTax year 2025
Grant purpose
Quality Public K-12 Schools: Excellent Educators
BridgeYear
Houston, TX
$949.8KTax year 2025
Grant purpose
Post-Secondary Pathways: Post-Secondary Access and Success
Showing 5 of the 25 largest grants (547 reported in all).
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Figures are aggregated from The Powell Foundation's IRS Form 990-PF electronic filings (2 filings on file, most recent tax year 2025). Totals reflect grants the foundation reported as paid, and can lag the current year because foundations file annually and often on extension. Source: IRS 990-PF filing on ProPublica. Raw e-file archive (ZIP) — a large IRS yearly archive download.
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