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Agee Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $187k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $235k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CCSC - CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER | $70,000 |
| Summerhouse Houston | $65,000 |
| HOUSTON ACHIEVEMENT PLACE | $50,000 |
| Sharpen Recovery | $50,000 |
| ST JOHN PAUL II FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH | $30,000 |
| Our Lady of Walsingham | $20,000 |
| Little Sisters of Assumption Health Service | $20,000 |
| ST PAUL'S CHOIR SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE DOWN SYNDROME ACHIEVEMENT CENTER | $15,000 |
| Horizons at St David's School | $12,000 |
| ST AGNES ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Child Advocates | $10,000 |
| Christ The King Presbyterian Church | $9,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
44 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 5 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, 91% 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
- HGHouston Grand Opera Association Inc4× · 2017–2021 · $200k · revenue +28%
- MHMemorial Hermann Foundation4× · 2017–2021 · $150k · revenue +158%
- TJTHE JOHN PAUL II FOUNDATION FOR LIFE AND FAMILY5× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- TETEXAS EDUCATION WORKSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +26%
- HFHIS FATHERS HEART MINISTRIESone grant, 2023 · $100k
- JPJOHN PAUL II CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $84k
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.
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…
St. Peter Catholic High School empowers students to be models of faith through Catholic spiritual formation, while providing a creative and comprehensive education in career and technical pathways.
Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…
The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…
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…
See Schedule OThe purpose of Awty International School (Awty) is to create an environment where students experience excellence every day to make their mark on the world alongside their community, in a spirit of curiosity, courage and…
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…
Veritas is an independent Christian school in the classical tradition that prepares students for lives of service and learning through academic excellence character development biblical literacy and intentional engagement opportunities.
MADE Houston was formed to create a school community focused on nurturing and developing the unique academic and social needs of students with learning differences and to successfully transition students into mainstream schools.
See Schedule O. The Fay School ("the School") is a nonsectarian, not-for-profit, co-educational school in which children of diverse talents and backgrounds with strong academic abilities are offered a high-quality education in a secure,…
St. Stephen's Episcopal School - Houston ("St. Stephen's", "the School") nurtures each child's academic, creative, and spiritual potential.
To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seton Education Partners and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 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. 34 of the 73 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 HOUSTON ACHIEVEMENT PLACE ↗
- Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Memorial Hermann Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN PAUL II FOUNDATION FOR LIFE AND FAMILY ↗
- Who funds Institute for Spirituality and Health at the Texas Medical Center ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS EDUCATION WORKS ↗
- Who funds SUMMERHOUSE HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Nativity Academy ↗
- Who funds Sharpen Recovery ↗
- Who funds Institute for Girls Education Inc DBA Magnolia School ↗
- Who funds KIDSQUEST CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds Seal Legacy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
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: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Marek Family Foundation · Sterling-Turner Foundation · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Medallion Foundation Inc · MD Anderson Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund
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 Agee 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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