Baxter Trust
Committed to helping people from underserved communities improve their station in life.
About Baxter Trust
Established in 1986, Baxter Trust is a Texas-based private foundation focused on grantmaking to smaller and newer nonprofit organizations. The foundation's stated purpose is to support groups that lack major fundraising capabilities but are committed to helping people from underserved communities improve themselves and their station in life. Baxter Trust operates as a grantmaker (filing Form 990-PF) and maintains a public website with its trustees, governance information and 990 reports. In recent filings the foundation has carried substantial assets and made multi-million-dollar disbursements to charitable organizations serving local and regional needs. The foundation emphasizes support for grassroots and emerging nonprofits rather than large institutional grants, directing resources to organizations that serve low-income and underserved populations in the Houston area and beyond.
Notable achievements
Longstanding private foundation
Continuously tax-exempt and operating since 1986, providing multi-decade grantmaking support to smaller nonprofit organizations.
Substantial asset base
Maintains a multi-million dollar endowment (reported net assets in the tens of millions) enabling multi-year grantmaking capacity.
Significant recent grantmaking
Reported charitable disbursements of approximately $2.68 million in the most recent fiscal year, supporting multiple nonprofit partners focused on underserved communities.
At a glance
- Total assets
- $48.3M
- Tax status
- 501(c)(3)Private non-operating foundation
- EIN
- 76-0174893
- Location
- Houston, TX
- Website
- baxtertrust.org
- On Mahalo since
- September 2026
Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.
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