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Arnold & Itkin Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $59k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MONARCH SCHOOL & INSTITUTE | $135,000 |
| CEO FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| KIDS' MEALS INC | $14,350 |
| PRECINCT 4 FORWARD | $10,000 |
| PINK BOWS FOUNDATION- BINGO SPONSORSHIP | $10,000 |
| SMALL STEPS NURTUING CENTER | $10,000 |
| SAFSN | $8,000 |
| LSU FOUNDATION | $5,250 |
| SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER | $5,000 |
| MCCALLA YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| BIG BUDDY PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| FEVER UNITED SOCCER CLUB | $5,000 |
| SABINE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD | $5,000 |
| PASEDENA MEMORIAL HS SOFTBALL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
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 (FY23–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% 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 +11% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 20 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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
- HCHOUSTON'S CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC2× · 2023–2024 · $26k · revenue +7%
- STSOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON INC2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +11%
- DPDEER PARK ELEMENTARY PTO4× · 2021–2024 · $5k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- TATexas Access to Justice Foundationone grant, 2023 · $161k · revenue +16%
- SFSTATE FAIR OF LOUISIANAone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -13%
BAYLOR UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +11%
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.
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Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
American Leadership Forum (ALF) brings together, in classes, leaders with diverse perspectives so they can build relationships, learn to dialogue and respectfully differ, and work together for the good of our community.
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The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Defense Fund and the most unlike its peers is Deer Park Elementary Pto. 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 40 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 94 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 Texas Access to Justice Foundation ↗
- Who funds CEO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON'S CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STATE FAIR OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds PRECINCT4FORWARD ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Small Steps Nurturing Center ↗
- Who funds MCCALLA YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSN INC ↗
- Who funds BakerRipley ↗
- Who funds BIG BUDDY PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds DEER PARK ELEMENTARY PTO ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN JUDGES ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Houston Food Bank · Albemarle Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Arnold & Itkin 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc — 24% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% 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.
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