· Private foundation
Betty Jane Seydler 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $180k
- $250k+1 grant · $382k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Vanguard Charitable Endowment Fnd | $382,000 |
| Interfaith Ministeries Greater Hous | $40,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters | $30,000 |
| Camp Allen | $10,000 |
| Houston Food Bank | $10,000 |
| Houston Zoo | $10,000 |
| Christian Community Service Center | $10,000 |
| Kids Meals | $10,000 |
| Salvation Army | $10,000 |
| Houston Public Media Foundation | $10,000 |
| Habitat For Humanity | $10,000 |
| St Luke's United Methodist Church | $10,000 |
| Christian Broadcasting Network | $10,000 |
| River Oaks Chamber Orchestra | $10,000 |
| Star of Hope | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $264k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 3 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCChristian Community Service Center Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $228k · revenue +30%
The Houston Food Bank9× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +107%- HPHouston Public Media Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- CCCCSC - Capital Campaignone grant, 2022 · $50k
- TMTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +129%
- EPEvelyn's Park Conservancygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +53%
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.
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.
Hermann Park Conservancy is a citizens organization dedicated to the stewardship and improvement of Hermann Park - today and for generations to come.
Houston MediaSource aspires to be the community media center for the City of Houston. HMS provides public access to media platforms that promote citizen engagement, protect the right to free expression, and provide opportunities to advance…
The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…
Harmonia Stellarum is an ensemble of professional vocalists and instrumentalists specialized in historically informed performance practice who seek to inspire, entertain, and enlighten audiences with meaningful, historically informed…
To advance the conservation of birds and their habitats in the Greater Houston Gulf Coast region by acquiring and maintaining critical habitat as bird sanctuaries, providing education programs and nature experiences, and advocating policy…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
The mission of Texas Public Radio is to engage, inspire and inform, bringing people together to better understand their community and world.
The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…
Hope media group's (hmg) mission is engaging people to love jesus, serve others, and spread hope.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Christian Community Service Center Inc ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Houston Public Media Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds Camp Allen Camp & Conference Center ↗
- Who funds River Oaks Chamber Orchestra ↗
- Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds ONECHILD GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds Harleys Dream ↗
- Who funds Patrons for Bellaire Parks ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Evelyn's Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Betty Jane Seydler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Betty Jane Seydler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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