· Private foundation
Barry B and Marilyn Eiland Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC | $40,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC | $35,000 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| STAR OF HOPE MISSION | $20,000 |
| GARY GREENE REALTORS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $5k) 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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +30%
The Houston Food Bank6× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +36%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC3× · 2023–2025 · $90k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- HBHOPE BORDER INSTITUTEone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
- UAUkraine Aidone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -86%
- KMKIDS' MEALS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +106%
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 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 empower communities and individuals in ukraine by providing responsive humanitarian aid, fostering sustainable solutions, and advocating for a peaceful future. we are dedicated to supporting those in need, addressing various aspects of…
Lone star legal aid's ("lsla") mission is to protect and advance the civil legal rights of the millions of texans living in poverty by providing free advocacy, legal representation, and community education that ensures equal access to…
The mission of Target Hunger is to alleviate hunger and its root causes in the Houston neighborhoods we serve. Target Hunger is on the front lines of hunger every day through its food distribution system that includes multiple food…
The Houston Bar Foundation supports programs that help provide legal representation to the indigent, promote community understanding of our legal system, and foster the administration of justice.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
Central houston civic improvement lnc.'s mission is to ensure the continued vitality and to support development of downtown and the central city that is critical to the continued health and growth of houston.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Star of Hope Mission and the most unlike its peers is Ukraine Aid. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 12 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 ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GARY GREENE REALTORS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE BORDER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Ukraine Aid ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND COMMUNITY INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Barry B and Marilyn Eiland 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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