Woodforest Charitable Foundation
ActivePhilanthropy & Voluntarism
The Woodlands, TXWebsite
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About Woodforest Charitable Foundation
The Woodforest Charitable Foundation concentrates large grants on health care and child-focused services in the Houston/The Woodlands area, with a strong emphasis on major hospital foundations and child welfare organizations. Most awards are multi-hundred-thousand to multi-million dollar gifts supporting general operations, and the foundation shows willingness to make repeat, sizable investments in a small set of institutional partners. A single large outlier to youth civic organizing appears among otherwise health- and child-centered giving.
Focus Areas
Pediatric healthcare and hospital system support in Houston area (Texas Children’s Hospital)General hospital philanthropy (The Methodist Hospital Foundation)Child welfare and safety services (Children’s Safe Harbor / child placement and protective services)Regional (Houston/The Woodlands) institutional philanthropy
Who They Fund
unspecified
Giving Approach
Highly concentrated: very few grants but large dollar amounts, including repeat multi-million-dollar gifts to the same major hospital; primarily unrestricted/general support to institutional grantees rather than many small or grassroots grants.
About Woodforest Charitable Foundation
The Woodforest Charitable Foundation’s recent giving is marked by very large support for Houston-area hospitals and child welfare organizations, including a $2,759,526 grant to Dan and Jan Duncan NRI Texas Childrens Hospital and a $1,855,886 grant to Childrens' Safe Harbor in Conroe. Those awards sit alongside other six- and seven-figure gifts, showing a pattern of substantial general-program support rather than narrow project-only funding. The foundation also made a $1,000,000 grant to Turning Point USA in 2025, an outlier compared with its more consistent health, family, and community-serving awards. Across the recent list, the foundation’s support reaches hospital philanthropy, child advocacy, food security, and community enrichment, with many grants structured as support of general programs. Repeat awards appear in the recent record, including multiple years of funding to the same organizations, which suggests ongoing relationships with select grantees. In the Houston/The Woodlands area, its giving often centers on institutions serving children, families, and public-serving nonprofits, while still extending to a broader set of community organizations.
What Woodforest Charitable Foundation Funds
Child and family services are a clear throughline. The foundation gave $500,000 to Childrens Safe Harbor in 2023 and later $125,000 to Boy's and Girl's Country in 2025, both for support of general programs. Food access is another recurring area: it awarded $100,000 to Houston Food Bank in 2025 and another $100,000 to Montgomery County Food Bank in 2025. Health-related philanthropy also appears in the recent record, including $706,253 to The Methodist Hospital Foundation in 2024 and $250,000 to The Arbor School in 2024 for support of general programs. The foundation also backed community and civic groups, such as $100,000 to Youth Reach Houston in 2023 and $350,000 to Texas Community New Alliance in 2024.
How Woodforest Charitable Foundation Gives
The typical gift size is modest relative to the foundation’s largest awards: p25 is $1,390, median is $3,440, and p75 is $10,000. Recent grant records show a mix of very small awards and multi-million-dollar outliers, with repeated support to some organizations across multiple years. The foundation is a private charitable foundation and does not fund individuals. Its recent awards are mainly described as support of general programs, general operating support, or general program support, with competitive grantmaking and unsolicited applications accepted in some of its community-grant programs.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$3.9M
Total Assets
$146.6M
Total Revenue
$21.3M
Total Expenses
$4.8M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $1K and $10K, with a median of $3K.
25th Percentile
$1K
Median
$3K
75th Percentile
$10K
Geographic Reach
National24 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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