· Private foundation
Albert and Margaret Alkek 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $538k
- $50k–250k29 grants · $2.6M
- $250k+6 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $8,093,300 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $1,000,000 |
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $564,500 |
| TMI - THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF TEXAS | $500,000 |
| HOUSTON SYMPHONY SOCIETY | $400,000 |
| AMAZING PLACE | $300,000 |
| TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| TMI - THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF TEXAS | $190,000 |
| TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER HOUSTON INC | $125,000 |
| SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $125,000 |
| STAR OF HOPE | $125,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $100,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S ASSESSMENT CENTER | $100,000 |
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, $485k) 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 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 +26% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 9 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $440k 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
- BCBaylor College of Medicine5× · 2020–2024 · $38M · revenue +47%
- TMTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON4× · 2020–2023 · $4.8M · revenue +51%
- HSHouston Symphony Society3× · 2022–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +26%
Funded once
- SLST LUKES UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $150k
- TSTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INCone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -25%
- DCDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTERone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +13%
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.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…
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…
To advance the conservation of birds and their habitats in the Greater Houston Gulf Coast region by acquiring and maintaining critical habitat as bird sanctuaries, providing education programs and nature experiences, and advocating policy…
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
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.
The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…
See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation and the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. 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 35 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 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 84 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 Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Houston Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds St Mary's University ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOMEBODY CARES AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds River Oaks Chamber Orchestra ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BANDERA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Mental Health America of Greater Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds PRO-VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Witte Museum ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ARTHUR NAGEL COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Community Service Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Golf Association Youth Program Inc dba First Tee of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds THE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds REMIND ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Children's Assessment Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE AUSTIN CENTER FOR GRIEF AND LOSS ↗
- Who funds Nehemiah Center Inc ↗
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 · Strake Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Sterling-Turner Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Powell Foundation · J Squared Family Foundation · MD Anderson 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 Albert and Margaret Alkek 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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