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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.

$307k
Granted FY2025still arriving
59
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Environment$931kRecreation & Sports$155kCommunity Improvement$105kPublic Benefit$100kArts & Culture$54kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kEducation$22kAnimals$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k52 grants · $175k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $132k
$3,315
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Individual grant recipient$5,920
CRCL Coalition to Restsore Coastal Louisiana$5,920
Keep Laredo Beautiful$5,920
Individual grant recipient$5,920
Tree New Mexico$5,329
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Motley-Dickens Counties Old Settler: $1k → 18%La Cosecha Community Supported Agriculture: $5k → 14%Doyle School Community Center: $1k → 13%Cal Farley's Boys Ranch: $1k → 20%El Salvador Foundation: $771 → 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

WY
PA
VA
NM
SC
LA
MS
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Apache Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 82% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 78%.

Apache Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.4% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$901k · 53 repeat orgs$531k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +3% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
108

Total granted

$901k
$437k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
0%

Still filing today

47%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k 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
EnvironmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • HW
    HOUSTON WILDERNESS INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $83k · revenue +83%
  • TI
    TreeFolks Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $83k · revenue +148%
  • TN
    Tree New Mexico Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $32k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • CO
    City of Houston Parks and Recreatio
    one grant, 2023 · $63k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $55k
  • TF
    Trees For Houston
    one grant, 2021 · $22k · revenue -50%
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
Big Thicket Biosphere Reserve

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.

Environment
2
Houston Parks Board

The Houston Parks Board mission is to expand, improve, and protect parks and greenspace in the Houston region.

Philanthropy
3
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
4
Bexar Land Trust Inc dba Green Spaces Alliance of South Texas

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.

Environment
5
Houston Arboretum & Nature Center

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.

Environment
6
Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust

We acquire properties to be donated to the National Park Service and state entities and advocate for protection of Big Thicket natural resources.

Environment
7
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
8
Rio Bravo Restoration

Natural Resource Stewardship

Environment
9
Ecology Action of Texas Inc

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,…

Environment
10
Sustaining Our Urban Landscape Soul

Sustaining Our Urban Landscape's mission is to drive a resilient and environmentally equitable New Orleans through reforesting our city.

Environment
11
Guadalupe River Park Conservancy

Guadalupe River Park Conservancy provides community leadership for the development and active use of Guadalupe River Park & Garden through education, advocacy and stewardship.

Environment
12
Barton Springs Conservancy

Barton Springs Conservancy honors, preserves, and enhances the experience of Barton Springs for everyone through education and park improvements.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston Wilderness Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
23/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Harris County Precinct 3: $93,031 · OtherHarris County Precinct 3TreeFolks Inc: $83,215 · OtherTreeFolks IncCITY OF HOUSTON: $65,301 · OtherCITY OF HOUSTONCity of Houston Parks and Recreatio: $62,588 · OtherCity of Houston Parks and RecreatioIndividual grant recipient: $54,722 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+149 more: $603,404 · Other+149 moreHOUSTON WILDERNESS INC: $83,256 · EnvironmentHOUSTON WILDERNESS INCNOLA Tree Project: $56,342 · EnvironmentNOLA Tree ProjectKEEP ODESSA BEAUTIFUL INC: $47,097 · EnvironmentKEEP ODESSA BEAUTIFUL INCTree New Mexico Inc: $31,843 · EnvironmentTree New Mexico IncKEEP MIDLAND BEAUTIFUL INC: $27,729 · EnvironmentKEEP MIDLAND BEAUTIFUL INCBig Bend Conservation Alliance: $22,093 · EnvironmentBig Bend Conservation Allianc…Keep Brazos Beautiful: $14,596 · Environment+16 more: $87,459 · Environment+16 moreFRIENDS OF THE WILDLIFE CORRIDOR: $46,470 · Arts & CultureKEEP SAN ANGELO BEAUTIFUL: $23,408 · Community ImprovementWOODLANDS CONSERVANCY: $13,457 · Recreation & SportsLafayette Central Park Inc: $4,904 · Recreation & SportsPease Park Conservancy: $2,487 · Recreation & SportsLA COSECHA COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE: $5,328 · Human ServicesCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $1,390 · Human ServicesMOTLEY-DICKENS COUNTIES OLD SETTLERS REUNION INC: $1,151 · Human ServicesTHE DOYLE SCHOOL COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,080 · Human ServicesEl Salvador Foundation: $771 · Human ServicesEXPLORATION GREEN CONSERVANCY: $6,955 · Public Benefit
Other$962,261Environment$370,415Arts & Culture$46,470Community Improvement$23,408Recreation & Sports$20,848Human Services$9,720Public Benefit$6,955

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOUSTON WILDERNESS INC: $83,256 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetTreeFolks Inc: $83,215 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetNOLA Tree Project: $56,342 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetKEEP ODESSA BEAUTIFUL INC: $47,097 over 4y, 32% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WILDLIFE CORRIDOR: $46,470 over 3y, 12% of budgetTree New Mexico Inc: $31,843 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetKEEP MIDLAND BEAUTIFUL INC: $27,729 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetKEEP SAN ANGELO BEAUTIFUL: $23,408 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetBig Bend Conservation Alliance: $22,093 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetSCENIC TEXAS: $21,902 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetTrees For Houston: $21,749 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKeep Brazos Beautiful: $14,596 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetWOODLANDS CONSERVANCY: $13,457 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetGALVESTON ISLAND TREE CONSERVANCY: $9,841 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetHouston Botanic Garden: $9,701 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPONTCHARTRAIN CONSERVANCY: $8,277 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNative Plant Society of Texas: $7,693 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHermann Park Conservancy: $7,520 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEXPLORATION GREEN CONSERVANCY: $6,955 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetHermits Peak Watershed Alliance: $6,588 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOALITION TO RESTORE COASTAL LOUISIANA: $5,920 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc: $5,608 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKEEP SUGAR LAND BEAUTIFUL: $5,608 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetLafayette Central Park Inc: $4,904 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGalveston Bay Foundation Inc: $4,548 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFort Stockton Historical Society: $4,400 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPROUD LOUISIANA LLC: $4,277 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSAWMILL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $3,336 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetArboretum San Antonio: $2,699 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPease Park Conservancy: $2,487 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA LAFAYETTE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $2,296 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRAZORIA COUNTY MASTER GARDENER ASSOCIATION: $2,220 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetAbilene Zoological Society: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoastal Prairie Conservancy: $1,497 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fields Edge: $1,390 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $1,390 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNicholls State University Foundation: $1,260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTLEY-DICKENS COUNTIES OLD SETTLERS REUNION INC: $1,151 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE DOYLE SCHOOL COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,080 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPASADENA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $1,080 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSLAVONIC BENEVOLENT ORDER OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: $957 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE EXTREME INC: $765 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBAYOU LAND CONSERVANCY: $720 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJust Do It Now Inc: $643 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Jacob and Terese Hers…National Fish and Wil…Shell USA Company Fou…The Brown Foundation …The Greater New Orlea…Albert & Ethel Herzst…The Cynthia & George …Tc Energy FoundationCoypu Foundation Trus…Baker Hughes Foundati…John P McGovern Found…American Forests
Jacob and Terese Hershey FoundationTX21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 188 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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