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Abernathy Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON ADVANCEMENT | $25,000 |
| HUGH M HEFNER FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,791 |
| SUGAR LAND METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| CAMP KESEM | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| PARKS YOUTH RANCH | $2,500 |
| FAMILY SERVICE CENTER | $2,068 |
| STEM BRIDGES HOUSTON | $2,000 |
| WHITE RIBBON PROJECT | $2,000 |
| TEXAS EQUUSEARCH | $2,000 |
| ROSENBERG-RICHMOND HELPING HANDS INC | $2,000 |
| PROJECT HOPE RECOVERY CENTER | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +16%
- CKCamp Kesem National2× · 2023–2024 · $7k · revenue +4%
- TETEXAS EQUUSEARCH MOUNTED SEARCH AND RECOVERY6× · 2018–2024 · $6k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- WFWHEELCHAIRS FOR WARRIORSone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +3%
- FMFIRST METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $10k
- ACA Cause to Give Us Pawsone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -76%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Animal Rescue
Rescue dogs and other small domestic animals, care for them until they are healthy and adopt them to loving families.
Pippys Pals Rescue is dedicated to saving the lives of dogs facing euthanasia in Houston. Our mission is to provide a second chance to these beloved companions by rescuing them from shelters, providing them with necessary medical care, and…
Paws need people strive to rescue pets from shelters and provide a place they can stay until they are adopted. they provide pets to veterans through its therapy pet program.
Paws Animal Rescue Inc rescues rehabilitates and rehomes abandoned injured and at risk animals in the Alvin and Greater Houston region providing medical care safe foster placement community education and adoption services to promote humane…
Provide veterinary and shelter services for displaced and wayward animals in the township and outlying area of port aransas, texas.
RED COLLAR RESCUE is an all-volunteer 501 (c) (3) animal welfare charity dedicated to rescuing and providing extensive medical care, foster care, training, rehabilitation, and adoptive placement to stray, abandoned, and abused dogs in…
Animal Rescue
PAWS' purpose is to provide refuge to stray and unwanted animals. PAWS' mission is to prevent cruelty to all animals by promoting humane standards through education and example, to provide care and shelter for homeless animals, aid in the…
The mission of PAWS Houston is to help sustain relationships between pet owners and their pets through a period of the owner's terminal and/or chronic illness in the hospital, hospice and at home.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of Fort Bend County and the most unlike its peers is Hugh M Hefner Foundation Co Amanda Warren. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HUGH M HEFNER FOUNDATION CO AMANDA WARREN ↗
- Who funds WHEELCHAIRS FOR WARRIORS ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Kesem National ↗
- Who funds TEXAS EQUUSEARCH MOUNTED SEARCH AND RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds A Cause to Give Us Paws ↗
- Who funds PARKS YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds ROSENBERG RICHMOND HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WHITE RIBBON PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Fort Bend Paws ↗
- Who funds SUGAR LAND LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF FORT BEND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds A PLACE FOR PEANUT INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE DREAMS OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI GREATER HOUSTON ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation · The George Foundation · Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Abernathy Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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