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Baxter Trust co Private Foundation Services

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.

$2.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
48
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$4.5MHealth$3.2MEducation$2.5MYouth Development$1.1MHousing & Shelter$1.0MEmployment$865kReligion$785kCommunity Improvement$768kOther$0
02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $326k
  • $50k–250k35 grants · $2.1M
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Westview School Inc$100,000
Fort Bend Care Center$100,000
Monarch Community Inc$100,000
TRS Health Inc$75,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
Noah's House$75,000
Every Shelter Inc$75,000
Faith Academy of Bellville$75,000
Hope and Healing Center & Institute$75,000
Child Advocates of Montgomery County$75,000
Right to Read$60,000
Making it Better dba Literacy Now$60,000
Christian New Creation Inc$57,500
Wellsprings Village Inc$52,500
College Possible$50,000
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 (FY17–25, $4.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FOSTER VILLAGE INC: $50k → 10%True to Life Ministries: $50k → 10%IT'S A SENSORY WORLD: $75k → 14%NEHEMIAH CENTER: $75k → 16%COUNSELING CONNECTION FOR CHANGE IN: $70k → 10%Compassion United Inc: $50k → 9%HARVEST FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $60k → 10%SECOND MILE MISSION CENTER: $50k → 8%HOPE'S PATH: $60k → 9%HARVEST FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $60k → 10%GALVESTON URBAN MINISTRIES: $75k → 14%FREE THE CAPTIVES: $50k → 9%FREE THE CAPTIVES: $50k → 9%Fort Bend Care Center: $100k → 8%WORKTEXAS TRAINING CENTER: $50k → 16%WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $100k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 16%SPECTRUM FUSION: $50k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $100k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $100k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $100k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $80k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $50k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $50k → 16%SUMMERHOUSE HOUSTON: $60k → 16%EPIPHANY COMMUNITY HEALTH OUTREACH SERVICES: $65k → 16%TEEN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 16%TEEN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 16%TEEN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 16%ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $50k → 16%ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $50k → 16%PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM: $65k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON: $50k → 16%HOUSTON WELCOMES REFUGEES: $75k → 16%HOUSTON WELCOMES REFUGEES: $75k → 16%HUMBLE AREA ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $60k → 16%PATHWAYS FOR LITTLE FEET: $50k → 16%HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS - HOUSTON: $75k → 16%TARGET HUNGER: $100k → 16%TARGET HUNGER: $50k → 16%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $50k → 16%THE LANDING: $75k → 16%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $50k → 16%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $50k → 16%BRIDGE YEAR: $100k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $100k → 16%MAKING IT BETTER DBA LITERACY NOW: $75k → 16%Making it Better dba Literacy Now: $60k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
IL
CO
MO
WV
VA
GA
TX
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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.4M · 71 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

71 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 57 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
194

Total granted

$8.4M
$10M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+12%

Still filing today

82%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther
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

  • PI
    PROUNITAS INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $370k · revenue +122%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS
    4× · 2019–2024 · $350k · revenue +3%
  • TF
    Teen & Family Services
    3× · 2018–2020 · $250k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC
    one grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue +0%
  • YD
    Youth Development Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $120k · revenue +57%
  • MD
    MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2019 · $110k
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
LifeHouse of Houston Inc

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.

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2
Breakthrough Houston

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.

Education
3
Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County

The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.

Human Services
4
Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc

Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

Housing & Shelter
5
West Street Recovery

West Street Recovery's mission is to connect communities to the resources they need to rebuild after climate disasters such as Hurricane Harvey and build resilient, secure, and stronger communities.

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
7
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
8
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

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.

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9
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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10
Made Houston

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.

Education
11
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
12
Main Street Ministries Houston

Main Street Ministries (MSM) is on a mission to build paths out of poverty empowered by the love of Jesus.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Loving Houston Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rockwell Fund Inc. 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

211 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. 211 of the 300 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.

15
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
63
Early backer (in before they grew)
204/211
Grantees still filing
140/211
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $230,000 · Other+85 more: $6,603,030 · Other+85 moreCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $350,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE TEXASTeen & Family Services: $250,000 · Human ServicesTeen & Family ServicesBRIDGEYEAR: $200,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS-HOUSTON: $155,000 · Human Services+44 more: $3,642,500 · Human Services+44 moreUniversity of Houston Foundation: $200,000 · EducationUniversity of …THE ARBOR SCHOOL: $200,000 · EducationTHE ARBOR SCHO…Every Shelter Inc: $150,000 · EducationEvery Shelter …THE BETA FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationTHE BETA FOUND…San Francisco Nativity Academy: $130,000 · EducationSan Francisco …University of St Thomas: $125,000 · EducationUniversity of …The Westview School Inc: $125,000 · EducationThe Westview S…ETOILE ACADEMY INC: $100,000 · EducationPetra Cares: $100,000 · EducationCY-HOPE INC: $100,000 · EducationTHE SAINT CONSTANTINE SCHOOL: $100,000 · EducationCAREER GEAR HOUSTON: $100,000 · EducationAvondale House Inc: $100,000 · EducationAgape Development Ministries: $86,000 · Education+9 more: $509,000 · Education+9 moreThe Council on Recovery: $150,000 · HealthThe Council…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC: $150,000 · HealthRONALD MCDO…CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare: $150,000 · HealthCHRISTUS Fo…THE MENS CENTER INCORPORATED: $130,000 · HealthTHE MENS CE…IBN SINA FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · HealthIBN SINA FO…Healthcare For Special Populations: $100,000 · HealthHealthcare …THE MONARCH COMMUNITY INC: $100,000 · HealthTHE MONARCH…Kelsey Research Foundation: $80,000 · HealthSANTA MARIA HOSTEL INC: $75,000 · HealthLiving Hope Wheelchair Association: $75,000 · HealthUfcs: $75,000 · HealthTRS HEALTH INC: $75,000 · HealthEL CAMINO GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $70,000 · HealthHarris County Hospital District Foundation: $65,000 · Health+9 more: $460,000 · Health+9 morePROUNITAS INC: $370,000 · Youth DevelopmentYouth Development Center Inc: $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentCamp For All Foundation: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentEyes On Me Inc: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentKick Drugs Out of America Foundation: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentDISCOVER FITNESS FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentEIGHT MILLION STORIES INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN: $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentWORKSHOP HOUSTON: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentPARKS YOUTH RANCH INC: $120,000 · Housing & ShelterMain Street Ministries Inc: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterGRACEWOOD INC: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterNESTQUEST HOUSTON INC: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterNoahs House: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSTON COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterRebuilding Together Houston: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterHouston Botanic Garden: $150,000 · EnvironmentCullinan Park Conservancy: $100,000 · EnvironmentArmand Bayou Nature Center Inc: $100,000 · EnvironmentGalveston Bay Foundation Inc: $75,000 · Environment
Other$6,833,030Human Services$4,597,500Education$2,275,000Health$1,855,000Youth Development$1,095,000Housing & Shelter$570,000Environment$425,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPROUNITAS INC: $370,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $350,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTeen & Family Services: $250,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $230,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Houston Foundation: $200,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ARBOR SCHOOL: $200,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetBRIDGEYEAR: $200,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetVITA LIVING INC: $175,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetHEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS-HOUSTON: $155,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFRONTLINE RESPONSE INTERNATIONAL INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetThe Council on Recovery: $150,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetOpen Door Mission: $150,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetHOUSTON WELCOMES REFUGEES: $150,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEvery Shelter Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetTHE BETA FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare: $150,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTarget Hunger Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCamp Allen Camp & Conference Center: $150,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHope and Healing Center & Institute: $150,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetHouston Botanic Garden: $150,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS: $140,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMaking It Better dba Literacy Now: $135,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetTHE MENS CENTER INCORPORATED: $130,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetSan Francisco Nativity Academy: $130,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetHouston Area Women's Center: $130,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetATTACK POVERTY: $130,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $125,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGENCY AID COALITION: $125,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetThe Westview School Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHARVEST FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $120,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetPARKS YOUTH RANCH INC: $120,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetIts a Sensory World Inc: $120,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetMain Street Ministries Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetEPIPHANY COMMUNITY HEALTH OUTREACH SERVICES: $100,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetETOILE ACADEMY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCamp For All Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INC: $100,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetEyes On Me Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetFriends of the Texas Historical Commission Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetGRACEWOOD INC: $100,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCullinan Park Conservancy: $100,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetNONPAREIL INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetA 2ND CUP: $100,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Parks Board: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetProject GRAD Houston: $100,000 over 2y, 5.8% 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.

Albert & Ethel Herzst…The Brown Foundation …The William Stamps Fa…United Way of Greater…Strake FoundationGreater Houston Commu…Harry S & Isabel C Ca…Hildebrand FoundationHouston Endowment IncThe Elkins FoundationThe Methodist HospitalMarek Family Foundati…
Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable FoundationTX127.1× affinity67 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The William Stamps Farish Fund · United Way of Greater Houston · Strake Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Hildebrand Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Elkins Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · Marek Family Foundation

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 Baxter Trust co Private Foundation Services funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Baxter Trust co Private Foundation Services. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Jerusalem Peacebuilders Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
42report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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

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Find your warmest path to Baxter Trust co Private Foundation Services 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 300 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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