· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| CAMP KESEM | $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 |
| ROSENBERG-RICHMOND HELPING HANDS INC | $2,000 |
| PROJECT HOPE RECOVERY CENTER | $2,000 |
| TEXAS EQUUSEARCH | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +16%
- CKCamp Kesem National2× · 2023–2024 · $7k · revenue +25%
- 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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 THE WHITE RIBBON PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ROSENBERG RICHMOND HELPING HANDS 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Abernathy Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Abernathy Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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