· Private foundation
Apache 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k52 grants · $175k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $132k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Houston Wilderness | $37,002 |
| Texas Longleaf Team Texas A&M Forest Service | $21,200 |
| City of Houston | $17,761 |
| TreeFOLKS | $16,282 |
| Harris County Precinct 3 | $14,801 |
| Harris County Precinct 4 | $14,209 |
| Scenic Texas | $10,657 |
| Keep Midland Beautiful | $8,940 |
| Big Bend Conservation Alliance | $8,880 |
| NOLA Tree Project | $6,603 |
| CRCL Coalition to Restsore Coastal Louisiana | $5,920 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,920 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,920 |
| Keep Laredo Beautiful | $5,920 |
| Tree New Mexico | $5,329 |
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 (FY21–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 89% of those 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Apache Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 82% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 78% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
53 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 26 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k 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
- HWHOUSTON WILDERNESS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $83k · revenue +83%
- TITreeFolks Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $83k · revenue +148%
- TNTree New Mexico Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $32k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- COCity of Houston Parks and Recreatioone grant, 2023 · $63k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $55k
- TFTrees For Houstonone grant, 2021 · $22k · revenue -50%
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.
The Big Thicket Biosphere Reserve's mission is community-based conservation to reconnect people with the natural and cultural environment while promoting sustainable economic growth in Southeast Texas.
The Houston Parks Board mission is to expand, improve, and protect parks and greenspace in the Houston region.
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…
The mission of Bexar Land Trust (Green Spaces) is to sustain the natural environment and enhance urban spaces through land conservation, community engagement, and education.
The mission of the Houston Arboretum & Nature Center is to provide education about the natural environment to people of all ages and to protect and enhance the Arboretum as a haven and sanctuary for native plants and animals.
We acquire properties to be donated to the National Park Service and state entities and advocate for protection of Big Thicket natural resources.
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…
Natural Resource Stewardship
Ecology Action's mission is to protect, reclaim, and connect communities to neglected or damaged remnants of the urban wilderness. We work to accelerate ecosystem recovery through biodiversity enhancement, water quality improvements,…
Sustaining Our Urban Landscape's mission is to drive a resilient and environmentally equitable New Orleans through reforesting our city.
Guadalupe River Park Conservancy provides community leadership for the development and active use of Guadalupe River Park & Garden through education, advocacy and stewardship.
Barton Springs Conservancy honors, preserves, and enhances the experience of Barton Springs for everyone through education and park improvements.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston Wilderness Inc and the most unlike its peers is El Salvador Foundation. 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 23 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 188 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 HOUSTON WILDERNESS INC ↗
- Who funds TreeFolks Inc ↗
- Who funds NOLA Tree Project ↗
- Who funds KEEP ODESSA BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WILDLIFE CORRIDOR ↗
- Who funds Tree New Mexico Inc ↗
- Who funds KEEP MIDLAND BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds KEEP SAN ANGELO BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds Big Bend Conservation Alliance ↗
- Who funds SCENIC TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Trees For Houston ↗
- Who funds Keep Brazos Beautiful ↗
- Who funds WOODLANDS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON ISLAND TREE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Houston Botanic Garden ↗
- Who funds PONTCHARTRAIN CONSERVANCY ↗
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: Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Tc Energy Foundation · Coypu Foundation Trust Xxxxx3002 · Baker Hughes Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · American Forests
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 Apache 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.