· Private foundation
Andrew Delaney 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k33 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+1 grant · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON COLLEGE OF NURSING | $275,000 |
| EMANCIPET | $160,000 |
| BOOKSPRING | $150,000 |
| HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE | $150,000 |
| FAMILY ELDERCARE INC | $145,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $145,000 |
| WILDLIFE RESCUE OF CENTRAL TEXAS | $135,000 |
| AUSTIN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| HOSPICE AUSTIN | $125,000 |
| THE WOODS PROJECT | $120,000 |
| HOUSTON ARTS ALLIANCE | $120,000 |
| ARTS FOR RURAL TEXAS | $100,000 |
| EVES FUND | $100,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD GULF COAST | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY17–25, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +51% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 6 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $248k 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
- EIEMANCIPET INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +114%
- BBookSpring8× · 2018–2025 · $915k · revenue +158%
- MLMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $850k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON - UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENTENERGY RESEARCH PARKone grant, 2018 · $25k
- GRGHETTO RESCUE FOUNDATION LOVING TEXAS PET ASSISTANCEone grant, 2021 · $15k
- NNNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUNDone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -53%
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.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
Community information now (cinow) provides data, tools, analysis, and training to inform decisions to improve texas communities. cinow's vision is improved lives and decreased disparities through democratized data.
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…
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
Houston Pets Alive!s (HPA!) mission is to save the lives of at-risk companion cats and dogs and find them loving homes.
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…
Laurel's House strengthens the human animal bond improves public health decreases the number of companion animal euthanasia due to overpopulation and diminishes human impact on native wildlife species by providing unprecedented access to…
See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Eight Million Stories 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 41 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
76 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. 76 of the 109 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 EMANCIPET INC ↗
- Who funds BookSpring ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Heroes Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOODS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GENAUSTIN ↗
- Who funds Houston Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ELDERCARE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR ↗
- Who funds BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Guide Dogs of Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ART GUILD OF FAYETTEVILLE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PURSUIT ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds LOW VISION RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Hospice ↗
- Who funds ETOSHA RESCUE & ADOPTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE RESCUE OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL BALANCE ↗
- Who funds Austin Wildlife Rescue ↗
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 · Shell USA Company Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · The Moody Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · St David's Foundation · The Brown Foundation 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 Andrew Delaney 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.
- Lasell University — 4% of income from government
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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