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Anne Lamkin Kinder Foundation Inc at a glance

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Anne Lamkin Kinder Foundation Inc

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.

$146k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$411kEducation$137kHealth$127kReligion$72kRecreation & Sports$29kEnvironment$24kHousing & Shelter$18kScience & Tech$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k32 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$401k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR THE ARTS$54,729
THE METHODIST HOSPITAL$25,205
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE GUNNISON VALLEY$10,021
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC$5,168
TEXAS BUSINESS HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION$5,000
EASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC$5,000
ST LUKES METHODIST CHURCH FOUNDATION INC$4,949
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$3,000
MENIL FOUNDATION INC$2,500
VALLEY HOUSING FUND$2,500
HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE$2,500
BRENDA AND JOHN H DUNCAN RISE SCHOOL OF HOUSTON$2,500
CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN HERITAGE MUSEUM INC$2,500
TANZANIA EDUCATION CORPORATION$1,600
HOUSTON FOOD BANK$1,500
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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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $2k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOUSTON'S AMAZING PLACE: $1k → 16%HOLLY HALL ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $500 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MA
IN
CO
MO
NC
TX
FL
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$714k · 42 repeat orgs$136k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
19

Total granted

$714k
$114k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
0%

Still filing today

67%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationRecreation & SportsEnvironmentReligionOther
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

  • HC
    HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT
    4× · 2021–2024 · $115k · revenue +26%
  • TK
    The Kinkaid School Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue +85%
  • TM
    THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $29k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • HM
    HOUSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
    one grant, 2023 · $49k
  • SL
    ST LUKE'S UNITED METHODIST
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue +78%
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
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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3
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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4
John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
6
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

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,…

Health
7
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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8
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
9
Houston Symphony Endowment

To support the operations of the Houston Symphony Society.

Arts & Culture
10
Arts Connect Houston

Arts Connect Houston unites with the greater Houston community to ensure access to high-quality arts education in creative writing, dance, music, theater, and the visual arts for every student, beginning with Houston ISD.

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston Ballet Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Sire Inc. 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

49 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. 49 of the 75 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/49
Grantees still filing
22/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $148,862 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR THE ARTSHOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT: $114,673 · Arts & CultureHOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFTTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $28,988 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTONHouston Museum of Natural Science: $12,039 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $32,630 · Arts & Culture+12 moreUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI IN COLUMBIA: $77,568 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI IN COLUMBIAHOUSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $49,110 · OtherHOUSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTSTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL: $35,235 · OtherTHE METHODIST HOSPITALST LUKE'S UNITED METHODIST: $29,621 · OtherST LUKE'S UNITED METHODISTTHETA CHARITY EVENTS INC: $25,809 · OtherTHETA CHARITY EVENTS INCINTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $17,915 · OtherRIVER OAKS BAPTIST SCHOOL: $15,165 · OtherST LUKE'S METHODIST CHURCH: $13,804 · Other+32 more: $84,628 · Other+32 moreTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $29,263 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $15,843 · HealthTexas Children's Hospital: $10,238 · HealthEASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC: $10,000 · Health+3 more: $3,000 · HealthThe Kinkaid School Inc: $30,252 · EducationRISE SCHOOL OF DALLAS: $5,000 · EducationTHE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationThe Brenda & John H Duncan Rise School of Houston: $2,500 · EducationKAPPA ALPHA THETA FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE GUNNISON VALLEY: $20,255 · PhilanthropyTexas Cultural Trust Council: $6,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $5,168 · PhilanthropyDiscovery Green Conservancy: $28,654 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $500 · Recreation & SportsVALLEY HOUSING FUND: $17,500 · Housing & Shelter
Arts & Culture$337,192Other$348,855Health$68,344Education$42,752Philanthropy$31,423Recreation & Sports$29,154Housing & Shelter$17,500

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 budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $148,862 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetHOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT: $114,673 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetThe Kinkaid School Inc: $30,252 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $29,263 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $28,988 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDiscovery Green Conservancy: $28,654 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHETA CHARITY EVENTS INC: $25,809 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE GUNNISON VALLEY: $20,255 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVALLEY HOUSING FUND: $17,500 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $15,843 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science: $12,039 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $10,238 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTANZANIA EDUCATION CORPORATION: $7,800 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston: $6,131 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Cultural Trust Council: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Arts Alliance: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALLEY THEATRE: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMenil Foundation Inc: $5,880 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $5,168 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREMIND: $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN HERITAGE MUSEUM INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST: $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brenda & John H Duncan Rise School of Houston: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLawndale Art & Performance Center: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKAPPA ALPHA THETA FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY AT GOTHIC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Public Media Foundation: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Ballet Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHermann Park Conservancy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATERCOLOR ART SOCIETY-HOUSTON: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSIRE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetContemporary Arts Museum Houston: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN AUSTIN CHELEY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJoy Development School: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON CINEMA ARTS SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 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…The Brown Foundation …Shell USA Company Fou…Vivian L Smith Founda…The Elkins FoundationHouston Endowment IncKinder FoundationDea Family FoundationMD Anderson FoundationSterling-Turner Found…John P McGovern Found…Albert & Ethel Herzst…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX40.9× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Kinder Foundation · Dea Family Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · Sterling-Turner Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation

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 Anne Lamkin Kinder Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anne Lamkin Kinder Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 75 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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