· Private foundation
Booker Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $116k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
- $250k+1 grant · $406k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON | $406,000 |
| THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER HOUSTON | $85,000 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ST JOSEPH | $25,000 |
| 100 CLUB OF HOUSTON | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| TEXAS GOLF HALL OF FAME | $11,000 |
| IMPACT MELANOMA | $10,000 |
| NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HOUSTON GOLF ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| JOHN COOPER SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| RED WHITE AND GREY FOUNDATION | $880 |
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 (FY17–19, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- HGHouston Golf Association Youth Program Inc dba First Tee of Greater Houston9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +51%
The Houston Food Bank7× · 2019–2025 · $155k · revenue +109%- TGTEXAS GOLF HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM7× · 2019–2025 · $115k · revenue ×18 · 44% of their budget
Funded once
- UOUNIVERISTY OF ST JOSEPHone grant, 2021 · $50k
- MAMIKE AND PAT BOOKER MELANOMA ENDOWMENT MD ANDERSEN CANCER CENTERone grant, 2018 · $50k
- SSSTEPHEN SILVER TUNNEL TO TOWERone grant, 2020 · $10k
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 Houston Municipal Golf Association is to help the City of Houston create long-term cost savings and facility upgrades by managing and improving the city's golf courses. The organization is contracted to operate F.M Law…
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
To support and empower all affected by gynecologic cancers through education, research, and public awareness.
To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.
Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…
Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve. our vision is to be the partner of choice as we transform healthcare for our communities. we will attain our vision through the following: -providing the highest…
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,…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Joseph Center and the most unlike its peers is Bravo Colorado At Beaver Creek-Vail Inc Dba Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 33 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 Houston Golf Association Youth Program Inc dba First Tee of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds TEXAS GOLF HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM (AUDIT) ↗
- Who funds National Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation ↗
- Who funds LUKE'S WINGS ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds SEYMOUR PINKINC ↗
- Who funds THE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRAVO COLORADO AT BEAVER CREEK-VAIL INC DBA BRAVO VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds IMPACT MELANOMA INC ↗
- Who funds THE VAIL JAZZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The John Cooper School ↗
- Who funds CANCARE 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 and Margaret Alkek Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good
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 Booker Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Impact Melanoma Inc — 3% of income from government
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.