· Private foundation
Arch & Stella Rowan Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD - SAN ANTONIO | $5,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 |
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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +46% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
63 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. 63 of the 157 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 THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL CLEAR MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Houston Parks Board ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Open Door Mission ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood San Antonio ↗
- Who funds Family Service Association of San Antonio Inc ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds BLUE BEAR SCHOOL of MUSIC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds MCNAY ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTHEART ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- 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 ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Arch & Stella Rowan Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arch & Stella Rowan Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Eckerd College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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