· Private foundation
Bert F Winston Sr Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORT BEND FAMILY HEALTH CENTER | $50,000 |
| ATTACK POVERTY | $50,000 |
| FORT BEND SENIORS MEALS ON WHEELS | $25,000 |
| HUNT PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC | $25,000 |
| FORT BEND WOMENS CENTER | $25,000 |
| TSTC FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCATES OF FORT BEND | $25,000 |
| MORTON CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FNDTN OF THE TX HILL COUN | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| CAL FARLEYS BOYS RANCH | $5,000 |
| FORT BEND WILDLIFE RESCUE | $1,000 |
| WIEGHAT FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k 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
THE TSTC FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $260k · revenue +154%- FBFort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More5× · 2021–2025 · $80k · revenue +16%
- MCMORTON CEMETERY ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- BIBRAZOS ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k
- TATexas A&M Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +28%
- BHBAYTOWN HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
Provide firefighting services for frelsburg, texas area.
Supporting the Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System
Provide economic assistance to Fort Bend County First Responders and their families. Also to provide scholarships to eligible children of Fort Bend County First Responders.
The Association serves the fire and emergency responders of Texas and beyond, exists to improve the Texas fire service, and is committed to the betterment of Texas emergency services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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 31 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 THE TSTC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc ↗
- Who funds Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More ↗
- Who funds MORTON CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ATTACK POVERTY ↗
- Who funds FORT BEND FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds LAMAR EDUCATIONAL AWARDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEEDVILLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER INC SOS/SHELTER-OUTREACH-SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds HUNT PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALS ASSOCIATION-TEXAS CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds FORT BEND HISTORY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TRINITY OAKS ENTERPRISES ↗
- Who funds THE HENDERSON-WESSENDORFF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAIRCHILD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NEEDVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds BEASLEY COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS ↗
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: The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation · The George Foundation · The Wingate-Lindsey Charitable Trust · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Madison Charitable Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Texas Mutual Insurance Company · Odyssey Outreach · Fort Bend Junior Service League · Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation · The Fluor Foundation
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 Bert F Winston Sr 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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