· 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 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 $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 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ST JOSEPH | $25,000 |
| 100 CLUB OF HOUSTON | $25,000 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- MAMIKE AND PAT BOOKER MELANOMA ENDOWMENT MD ANDERSEN CANCER CENTERone grant, 2018 · $50k
- UOUNIVERISTY OF ST JOSEPHone grant, 2021 · $50k
- MPMemorial Park Conservancy Incone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +17%
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.
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.
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 33 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 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 IMPACT MELANOMA INC ↗
- Who funds BRAVO COLORADO AT BEAVER CREEK-VAIL INC DBA BRAVO VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds THE VAIL JAZZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The John Cooper School ↗
- Who funds CANCARE INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Booker Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Booker Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Impact Melanoma Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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