· Private foundation
Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k135 grants · $696k
- $10k–50k173 grants · $2.5M
- $50k–250k9 grants · $925k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC | $1,000,000 |
| TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| THE EMERYWEINER CENTER FOR JEWISH EDUCATION | $300,000 |
| THE IRVIN M SHLENKER SCHOOL OF CONGREGATION BETH ISREAL | $150,000 |
| CAMP YOUNG JUDAEA INC | $100,000 |
| REMEMBER THE ALAMO FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SAM HOUSTON AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $100,000 |
| ST THOMAS HIGH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HOUSTON | $100,000 |
| CHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| THE BETA FOUNDATION DBA BETA ACADEMY | $75,000 |
| STRAKE JESUIT COLLEGE PREPARATORY INC | $35,000 |
| KIDS' MEALS INC | $35,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $30,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
336 repeat relationships — 237 still active in FY2024, 99 since wound down; 74 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
- TMTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON4× · 2020–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +51%
- TPTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $708k · revenue +62%
- CPCHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $464k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- BTBATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $450k · revenue -7%
- HPHOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $160k · revenue -15%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESone grant, 2023 · $120k · revenue -33%
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.
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…
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.
Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…
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…
As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
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…
American Leadership Forum (ALF) brings together, in classes, leaders with diverse perspectives so they can build relationships, learn to dialogue and respectfully differ, and work together for the good of our community.
Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…
The mission of Collaborative for Children is to meaningfully improve the quality of early childhood education and care for Greater Houston's children through those most influential in their lives.
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Loving Houston Inc and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum 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 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.2% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
492 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. 492 of the 573 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston ↗
- Who funds CHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNION COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN HEALTH COALITION OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA ↗
- Who funds The EmeryWeiner Center for Jewish Education ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEVEN ACRES JEWISH SENIOR CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Work Texas Training Center ↗
- Who funds PRO-VISION INC ↗
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- Who funds HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MANNED SPACE FLIGHT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAILING ANGELS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Boy Scouts of America Sam Houston Area Council ↗
- Who funds Hermann Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Camp Young Judaea Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds Houston Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds Houston's Amazing Place Inc ↗
- Who funds Crime Stoppers of Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds WONDERLAND EDUCATIONAL ESTATE DBA BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SpringSpirit Inc ↗
- Who funds Remember the Alamo Foundation ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association ↗
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: Strake Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Brown Foundation Inc · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Elkins Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · MD Anderson Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc
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 Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable 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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