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Avvento 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $222k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS | $64,600 |
| JEN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PROVINCE | $40,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S HOME | $26,000 |
| ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $20,650 |
| SETON EDUCATION PARTNERS | $20,000 |
| THE ROCK MINISTRIES | $16,000 |
| CHRISTUS FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH CARE | $15,000 |
| SOLEANA STABLES | $15,000 |
| HERE I AM ORPHAN MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| ALLEY THEATRE | $13,000 |
| PROJECT ONE DAY | $11,000 |
| SPRING SPIRIT | $10,000 |
| FULLER LIFE FAMILY | $10,000 |
| GRATIA PLENA | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER | $9,500 |
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 (FY22–24, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 77% 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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 14 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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
- UOUniversity of St Thomas3× · 2022–2024 · $88k · revenue +39%
- SESETON EDUCATION PARTNERS3× · 2022–2024 · $43k · revenue +41%
- ATALLEY THEATRE3× · 2022–2024 · $29k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- COCONGREGATION OF THE HOLY SPIRITone grant, 2022 · $1k
- BBBrighter Bites Incone grant, 2022 · $700 · revenue +1%
- CACHILD ADVOCATES INCone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue -5%
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.
The mission of the Lutheran Education Association of Houston (LEAH) is to operate and champion exemplary Lutheran schools in the Houston area to expand Christ's Kingdom.
Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…
Amazing Place empowers families facing the challenges of dementia and Alzheimer's and advances brain health for all. The Organization serves adults with mild cognitive impairment and mild to moderate dementia, caregiving families and…
St. Peter Catholic High School empowers students to be models of faith through Catholic spiritual formation, while providing a creative and comprehensive education in career and technical pathways.
The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.
See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…
Veritas is an independent Christian school in the classical tradition that prepares students for lives of service and learning through academic excellence character development biblical literacy and intentional engagement opportunities.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.
MADE Houston was formed to create a school community focused on nurturing and developing the unique academic and social needs of students with learning differences and to successfully transition students into mainstream schools.
Christian pre-school from age 3-months to school-age, and school from
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seton Education Partners and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 48 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 University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds SETON EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds ALLEY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds Here I Am Orphan Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds SOLEANA STABLES ↗
- Who funds CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare ↗
- Who funds Christian Community Service Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ONE DAY ↗
- Who funds Gratia Plena ↗
- Who funds SpringSpirit Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC LITERARY ARTS ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES EMPOWERED ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Small Steps Nurturing Center ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC ↗
- Who funds Brighter Bites Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
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: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc · The Elkins Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Scanlan Foundation · Strake Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Avvento 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.
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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