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Ann Lents and J David Heaney Foundation at a glance

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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.

$64k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$170kArts & Culture$158kEducation$48kEnvironment$28kPhilanthropy$25kRecreation & Sports$12kHousing & Shelter$9kCivil Rights$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$866k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$7,500
TELLURIDE ARTS$5,000
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS$5,000
ST JOHN'S SCHOOL$5,000
HOUSTON WILDERNESS$5,000
NEW HOPE HOUSING INC$3,000
THE TELLURIDE FOUNDATION$3,000
UT LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION$3,000
BAYOU PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC$2,500
TREES FOR HOUSTON$2,500
LONE STAR FLIGHT MUSEUM$2,500
MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UT LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%TELLURIDE ARTS: $10k → 7%ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $2k → 5%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $8k → 16%TELLURIDE ARTS: $10k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%TELLURIDE ARTS: $5k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%THE TELLURIDE FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%UT LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%NEW HOPE HOUSING: $5k → 16%THE TELLURIDE FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%TELLURIDE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%NEW HOPE HOUSING INC: $3k → 16%THE TELLURIDE FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%TELLURIDE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $22k → 16%TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $20k → 16%LONE STAR FLIGHT MUSEUM: $25k → 16%ST JOHN'S SCHOOL: $5k → 16%TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $20k → 16%LONE STAR FLIGHT MUSEUM: $20k → 16%The Center Foundation-Pursuit: $5k → 16%TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $20k → 16%LONE STAR FLIGHT MUSEUM: $10k → 16%ST JOHN'S SCHOOL: $5k → 16%BAYOU COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $10k → 16%LONE STAR FLIGHT MUSEUM: $3k → 16%SCHOOL FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: $3k → 16%BAYOU COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $8k → 16%LONE STAR FLIGHT MUSEUM: $3k → 16%KINKAID SCHOOL: $5k → 16%THE RISE SCHOOL OF HOUSTON: $3k → 16%HOUSTON PARKS BOARD: $3k → 16%GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FDN: $10k → 16%BAYOU PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $5k → 16%BAYOU PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $3k → 16%BAYOU PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $2k → 16%HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA: $3k → 16%THE MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $3k → 16%MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $3k → 16%MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $3k → 16%HOUSTON WILDERNESS: $5k → 16%HOUSTON WILDERNESS: $5k → 16%TREES FOR HOUSTON: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$369k · 17 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
12

Total granted

$369k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+6%

Still filing today

88%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

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EnvironmentHealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LS
    Lone Star Flight Museum
    7× · 2018–2025 · $125k · revenue +27%
  • TC
    Texas Children's Hospital
    4× · 2017–2020 · $82k · revenue +105%
  • TM
    THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • MR
    Motorcycle Relief Project
    one grant, 2018 · $26k · revenue +6%
  • BC
    BAYOU COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • TK
    The Kinkaid School Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +18%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
2
Houston Museum of Natural Science

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…

Arts & Culture
3
The Houston Parks Board Foundation

The Houston Parks Board Foundation provides the Houston Parks Board with financial assistance to support operations and park projects.

Environment
4
The Houston Audubon Society

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…

Environment
5
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
6
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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7
Willow Waterhole Greenspace Conservancy

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…

Environment
8
Harris County Medical Society

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…

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9
Houston Freedmen's Town Conservancy Inc

To completely restore Houston Freedmen's Town as a heritage district that provides America with its only Freedmen's Town.

Community Improvement
10
Houston Independent School District Foundation

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…

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11
Trinity Park Conservancy

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…

Community Improvement
12
The Heritage Society

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
14/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Texas Children's Hospital: $82,000 · HealthTexas Children's HospitalTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONMotorcycle Relief Project: $26,000 · HealthMotorcycle Relief ProjectTHE TELLURIDE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthLone Star Flight Museum: $125,000 · Arts & CultureLone Star Flight Museum+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureTELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS: $25,000 · OtherTELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR T…UT LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $13,000 · OtherUT LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATIO…BAYOU COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $10,000 · OtherBAYOU COLLEGE OF MEDICI…St John's School: $10,000 · OtherSt John's SchoolBAYOU PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $9,500 · OtherBAYOU PRESERVATION ASSO…Trees For Houston: $6,500 · OtherTrees For HoustonMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $5,000 · OtherThe Center Foundation-Pursuit: $5,000 · Other+8 more: $12,700 · Other+8 moreThe University of Texas Law School Foundation: $15,000 · EducationBaylor College of Medicine: $15,000 · EducationThe Kinkaid School Inc: $5,000 · EducationHOUSTON WILDERNESS INC: $10,500 · EnvironmentMemorial Park Conservancy Inc: $8,500 · EnvironmentSCENIC HOUSTON INC: $1,000 · Environment+2 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,000 · PhilanthropyHouston Parks Board: $3,505 · PhilanthropyTELLURIDE FOUNDATION: $13,000 · Recreation & SportsNew Hope Housing Inc: $8,500 · Housing & Shelter
Health$143,000Arts & Culture$125,500Other$96,700Education$35,000Environment$21,000Philanthropy$15,505Recreation & Sports$13,000Housing & Shelter$8,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLone Star Flight Museum: $125,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $82,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS: $25,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe University of Texas Law School Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTELLURIDE FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON WILDERNESS INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSt John's School: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAYOU PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $9,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMemorial Park Conservancy Inc: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hope Housing Inc: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTrees For Houston: $6,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TELLURIDE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Kinkaid School Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Parks Board: $3,505 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCENIC HOUSTON INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHermann Park Conservancy: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoastal Prairie Conservancy: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Public Media Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTELLURIDE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $450 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Houston Commu…Houston Endowment IncThe Brown Foundation …John P McGovern Found…Strake FoundationCenterpoint Energy Fo…Garver Black Hilyard …Albert & Ethel Herzst…Union Pacific Foundat…The Tapeats FundJacob and Terese Hers…Harry S & Isabel C Ca…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX23.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ann Lents and J David Heaney Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ann Lents and J David Heaney Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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