· Private foundation
Ability to Succeed Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LETTING EVERYONE ACHIEVE DREAMS | $3,000 |
| J'S HOUSE | $2,000 |
| KIDS' MEALS INC | $2,000 |
| WORLD VISION INC | $2,000 |
| HOPE SPEAKS INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF KINGWOOD BASEBALL | $1,500 |
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 (FY24–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Ability to Succeed Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SSSoftball Sisters2× · 2020–2021 · $8k · 32% of their budget
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area4× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue +12%
- LLIFT-UP2× · 2023–2024 · $7k
Funded once
- HIHOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2022 · $3k
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIOgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +90%
- PMPROBE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONALone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +14%
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.
Communities in schools of central texas (cisct) ensures students have holistic support, removing academic and nonacademic barriers to their success in school.
Our mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
Kids Hope USA connects churches and organizations with neighborhood elementary schools to operate a proven, established school-based mentoring program. Through these partnerships, Kids Hope USA mobilizes Christ-followers as trained…
The mission of Girls Incorporated of Greater Houston is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold.
To meet the needs of students in at-risk situations by improving academics, marketable skills, attendance, and behavior through the partnership of school, home, and community so that young people stay in school, learn successfully and…
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…
Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
YES Prep Public Schools, Inc. prepares low-income youth to enter a four-year college or university by implementing an innovative and rigorous academic program which also emphasizes community service.
The mission of the Lutheran Education Association of Houston (LEAH) is to operate and champion exemplary Lutheran schools in the Houston area to expand Christ's Kingdom.
Christian pre-school from age 3-months to school-age, and school from
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 14 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 WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Softball Sisters ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area ↗
- Who funds JS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SERVE HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LETTING EVERYONE ACHIEVE DREAMS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE SPEAKS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KINGWOOD BASEBALL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds PROBE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Ability to Succeed Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ability to Succeed Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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