· Private foundation
Anne and Don Fizer 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $104k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UT HEALTH | $85,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $80,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY | $25,000 |
| THE UT LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $17,000 |
| TREES FOR HOUSTON | $15,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF HOUSTON INC | $15,000 |
| DASH NETWORK | $12,000 |
| RETINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| RICE UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS | $8,000 |
| MAGNIFICAT HOUSE | $7,875 |
| HOMEMADE HOPE FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN | $7,000 |
| THE BEACON | $5,875 |
| 4TH WALL THEATRE COMPANY | $5,000 |
| SAILING ANGELS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against +68% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MPMemorial Park Conservancy Inc6× · 2017–2023 · $424k · revenue +138%
- HAHouston Arboretum & Nature Center2× · 2018–2019 · $200k · revenue +25%
- TFTrees For Houston9× · 2017–2025 · $147k · revenue +133%
Funded once
- MAMD ANDERSONone grant, 2024 · $90k
- TSTHE SHEERAN-CROWLEY TRUSTone grant, 2023 · $60k
- TBTexas Bar Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $54k · revenue +34%
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.
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.
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…
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 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…
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 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.
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 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…
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…
Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
To completely restore Houston Freedmen's Town as a heritage district that provides America with its only Freedmen's Town.
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…
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 48 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Arboretum & Nature Center ↗
- Who funds Trees For Houston ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds RETINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds CHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Homemade Hope for Homeless Children ↗
- Who funds Texas Bar Foundation ↗
- Who funds Magnificat Houses Inc ↗
- Who funds DFW ASYLUM SEEKER HOUSING NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Advocates for Camp Able Camp Able of Buffalo Gap ↗
- Who funds Boy Scouts of America Sam Houston Area Council ↗
- Who funds SAILING ANGELS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Bar Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Area Women's Center ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds THE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON BIKE SHARE ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds 4TH WALL THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds BikeHouston Inc ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds The University of Texas Law School Foundation ↗
- Who funds ARCHWAY ACADEMY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Strake Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Elkins Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Baker Hughes Foundation · The West Endowment · The John M O'Quinn Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Anne and Don Fizer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anne and Don Fizer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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