· Private foundation
Arch & Stella Rowan Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k89 grants · $168k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TCU-AHR ENDOW BUSINESS SCHOLORSHIP | $20,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS - HOUSTON | $12,300 |
| SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK | $6,000 |
| HARRIS METHODIST HOSPITAL | $6,000 |
| TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD - SAN ANTONIO | $5,000 |
| CRYSTAL CLEAR MINISTRIES | $4,500 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS INC - TARRANT CO | $4,000 |
| HOSPICE AT TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER | $4,000 |
| TARRANT AREA FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| ACE SCHOLARSHIPS | $4,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $3,500 |
| OPEN DOOR MISSION | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
127 repeat relationships — 80 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- TMTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON6× · 2019–2024 · $65k · revenue +33%
- TCTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +60%
- TATarrant Area Food Bank8× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +144%
Funded once
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INCone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -25%- EFESCAPE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF THE EXCHANGE CLUBS OF HOUSTONone grant, 2019 · $2k
- LJLADYBIRD JOHNSON WILFFLOWER CTone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
Mission: Connect communities with animals, inspiring action to save wildlife. Vision: Be a leader in the global movement to save wildlife. (Continued on Schedule O) Houston Zoo, Inc. (HZI) strives to be a zoo that practices exemplary…
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…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…
To collect and preserve significant historical materials that relate to the early history and culture of Texas and to promote the study of the history of Texas through exhibits, publications, and educational programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Haven for Hope of Bexar County and the most unlike its peers is The LifeRaft Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 157 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 THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL CLEAR MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Houston Parks Board ↗
- Who funds Open Door Mission ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood San Antonio ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Family Service Association of San Antonio Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds BLUE BEAR SCHOOL of MUSIC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTHEART ↗
- Who funds MCNAY ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BRENHAM FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund Inc · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324
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 Arch & Stella Rowan Foundation Inc 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.
- Eckerd College — 0% of income from government
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.