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Astros Golf Foundation

To ensure the pga tour's houston open continues to influence the houston community in a positive manner.

$4.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$7.7MRecreation & Sports$2.1MHealth$1.7MYouth Development$1.5MHuman Services$301kEducation$237kInternational$77kArts & Culture$54kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $4,525,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,775,713 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $250,713 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $135k
  • $250k+3 grants · $4.3M
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Astros Foundation$2,500,000
Texas Children's Hospital$1,300,000
First Tee of Greater Houston$500,000
Memorial Park Conservancy$85,000
Project Joy and Hope for Texas$50,000
Insperity Speaks$40,000
Triumph Over Kid Cancer Foundation$10,000
Spring Branch-Memorial Sports Association$10,000
Spindletop Charities$10,000
Boots for Troops$10,000
National Christian Foundation$10,000
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 (FY22–24, $335k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GOD'S GARAGE: $13k → 9%LUEWISH: $5k → 8%BEL INIZIO INC: $77k → 16%PROJECT JOY & HOPE: $123k → 16%Project Joy and Hope for Texas: $50k → 16%RAISEUP FAMILIES: $43k → 16%THE VILLAGE CENTERS: $24k → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 5 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
24

Total granted

$11M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+34%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthRecreation & SportsInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • AF
    ASTROS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $7.5M · revenue +100% · 45% of their budget
  • MP
    Memorial Park Conservancy Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +5%
  • HG
    Houston Golf Association Youth Program Inc dba First Tee of Greater Houston
    3× · 2021–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +55% · 91% of their budget

Funded once

  • NL
    NEW LIFE ADOPTIONSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $197k · revenue +38% · 31% of their budget
  • CI
    CY-HOPE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $112k · revenue +90%
  • AL
    ACCOMPLISHED LEARNING SERVICES
    one grant, 2022 · $85k
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
Heb Tournament of Champions Charitable Trust
Philanthropy
2
Houston Energy & Luxury Brand Golf Chari

To raise funds for cancer research

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3
The Good Foundation of Texas
Philanthropy
4
Good News Foundation of Texas
Philanthropy
5
Trees of Hope

Trees of hope transforms lives with fundraising and outreach activities for the exclusive benefit of childrens programs at star of hope, houston's largest mission for the homeless.

Housing & Shelter
6
A Glimmer of Hope Foundation Austin
Philanthropy
7
Greater Texas Foundation
Education
8
Texas Trust Gives
Philanthropy
9
Children's Cancer Fund of Dallas inc

Children's cancer fund champions kids in their fight against cancer through strategic investments in research and care in north texas.

Health
10
The Giving Rose Foundation Atx
Public Benefit
11
American Campus Charities Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for the Missing; the most unlike its peers is Astros Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 36 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
24/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASTROS FOUNDATION: $7,540,000 · PhilanthropyASTROS FOUNDATION+5 more: $213,200 · PhilanthropyMemorial Park Conservancy Inc: $2,011,831 · EnvironmentMemorial Park Co…Houston Golf Association Youth Program Inc dba First Tee of Greater Houston: $1,500,000 · Recreation & SportsHouston Golf…+3 more: $62,645 · Recreation & SportsTexas Children's Hospital: $1,300,000 · HealthTexas Child…HEARTS WITH HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $76,840 · HealthHEARTS WITH…+3 more: $48,470 · HealthNEW LIFE ADOPTIONS: $197,360 · OtherACCOMPLISHED LEARNING SERVICES: $84,814 · OtherInsperity Speaks: $40,000 · OtherCASUALTIES OF WAR: $20,000 · OtherPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · OtherBOOKS FOR DEVELOPMENT: $26,950 · OtherONEGOAL: $40,129 · OtherBoots for Troops: $22,500 · Other+5 more: $54,650 · OtherPROJECT JOY & HOPE FOR TEXAS: $172,750 · Human ServicesBEL INIZIO INC: $77,120 · Human ServicesRAISEUP FAMILIES: $42,600 · Human ServicesTHE VILLAGE LEARNING CENTER INC: $23,670 · Human ServicesGods Garage Inc: $13,350 · Human Services+1 more: $5,113 · Human ServicesCY-HOPE INC: $111,840 · Education
Philanthropy$7,753,200Environment$2,011,831Recreation & Sports$1,562,645Health$1,425,310Other$536,403Human Services$334,603Education$111,840

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASTROS FOUNDATION: $7,540,000 over 4y, 45% of budgetMemorial Park Conservancy Inc: $2,011,831 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetHouston Golf Association Youth Program Inc dba First Tee of Greater Houston: $1,500,000 over 3y, 91% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $1,300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW LIFE ADOPTIONS: $197,360 over 1y, 31% of budgetPROJECT JOY & HOPE FOR TEXAS: $172,750 over 2y, 12% of budgetCY-HOPE INC: $111,840 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBEL INIZIO INC: $77,120 over 1y, 23% of budgetHEARTS WITH HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $76,840 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetPINK BOWS FOUNDATION: $51,730 over 1y, 73% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOME PLACE OF TEXAS: $46,495 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetRAISEUP FAMILIES: $42,600 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetONEGOAL: $40,129 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Houston Golf Charity: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAddis Faith Foundation: $29,520 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBOOKS FOR DEVELOPMENT: $26,950 over 1y, 28% of budgetTHE VILLAGE LEARNING CENTER INC: $23,670 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBoots for Troops: $22,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMESA-OUTREACH INC: $16,950 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetGods Garage Inc: $13,350 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCENTER FOR THE MISSING: $11,470 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSpindletop Community Impact Partners Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHouston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSPRING BRANCH-MEMORIAL SPORTS ASSOC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRIUMPH OVER KID CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GRAEME MCDANIEL FOUNDATION: $8,950 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetPros for a Purpose Inc: $6,200 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $6,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUEWISH: $5,113 over 1y, 38% 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.

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.

Shell USA Company Fou…Greater Houston Commu…Baker Hughes Foundati…Strake FoundationAstros FoundationThe William Stamps Fa…Albemarle FoundationUnion Pacific Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…
Shell USA Company FoundationTX25.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Baker Hughes Foundation · Strake Foundation · Astros Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Albemarle Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Astros Golf Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Astros Golf Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 36 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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