· Private foundation
Ann Lents and J David Heaney 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 $10k16 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $7,500 |
| TELLURIDE ARTS | $5,000 |
| ST JOHN'S SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $5,000 |
| HOUSTON WILDERNESS | $5,000 |
| THE TELLURIDE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| UT LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| NEW HOPE HOUSING INC | $3,000 |
| MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $2,500 |
| LONE STAR FLIGHT MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| BAYOU PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC | $2,500 |
| TREES FOR HOUSTON | $2,500 |
| ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 79% of your 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 +27% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- LSLone Star Flight Museum7× · 2018–2025 · $125k · revenue +27%
- TCTexas Children's Hospital4× · 2017–2020 · $82k · revenue +78%
- TMTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- MRMotorcycle Relief Projectone grant, 2018 · $26k · revenue +6%
- BCBAYOU COLLEGE OF MEDICINEone grant, 2023 · $10k
- TKThe Kinkaid School Incone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +18%
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.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
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…
The Houston Parks Board Foundation provides the Houston Parks Board with financial assistance to support operations and park projects.
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…
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
The Willow Waterhole Greenspace Conservancy ("Willow Waterhole") serves as the leading advocate for public greenspace improvements and nature preservation at the 291-acre Willow Waterhole Greenway. (See Schedule O)Willow Waterhole partners…
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 completely restore Houston Freedmen's Town as a heritage district that provides America with its only Freedmen's Town.
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…
Trinity Park Conservancy champions the transformation of the Trinity River to become the heart of Dallas. With the community, the Conservancy will design public spaces that unite us, enrich people's lives through access to nature, create…
The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Motorcycle Relief Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 34 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 Lone Star Flight Museum ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Motorcycle Relief Project ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS ↗
- Who funds The University of Texas Law School Foundation ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON WILDERNESS INC ↗
- Who funds St John's School ↗
- Who funds BAYOU PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds New Hope Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds Trees For Houston ↗
- Who funds THE TELLURIDE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Kinkaid School Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Parks Board ↗
- Who funds SCENIC HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Hermann Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Coastal Prairie Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Houston Public Media Foundation ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
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 · Houston Endowment Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · John P McGovern Foundation · Strake Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Garver Black Hilyard Family Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · The Tapeats Fund · Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company
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 Ann Lents and J David Heaney 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.