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Brazelton Family 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 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 $10k9 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HILLTOP ADVENTURES (FKA ENDLESS RIVER MINISTRIES) | $225,000 |
| JH RANCH | $50,000 |
| EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF AMERICA | $50,000 |
| GRACE BIBLE CHURCH | $20,000 |
| SMALL STEPS NURTURING CENTER | $17,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS | $10,000 |
| NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR | $5,000 |
| HOPE & HEALING-INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $5,000 |
| THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| RE MIND | $2,500 |
| KINKAID SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $2,000 |
| SPRINGSPIRIT INC | $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 (FY24–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 29 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
- ACAUSTIN CHRISTIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION DBA ST FRANCIS SCHOOL6× · 2017–2024 · $356k · revenue +38%
- SSSmall Steps Nurturing Center8× · 2017–2025 · $156k · revenue +64%
- TKThe Kinkaid School Inc5× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- LLLittle League Baseball Inc 3431607 Post Oak LLone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +10%
- LFLONGHORN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $5k
- NSNAVY SEAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…
The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
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,…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
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,…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
The mission of Royal Public Schools is to spark students' natural curiosity and love of learning while providing the knowledge and skills they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Hermann Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Boots on the Court Inc. 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 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 121 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 AUSTIN CHRISTIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION DBA ST FRANCIS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Small Steps Nurturing Center ↗
- Who funds THE WORKFAITH CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds The Kinkaid School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE HUB HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Little League Baseball Inc 3431607 Post Oak LL ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds PROUNITAS INC ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR ↗
- Who funds ABIDE & LEAD ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Camp For All Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REMIND ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Nora's Gift Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds Memorial Assistance Ministries ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds BRAZELTON TOUCHPOINTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ARCHWAY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Houston Hospice ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · Sterling-Turner Foundation · Strake Foundation · J Squared Family Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company
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 Brazelton Family 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.
- Jerusalem Peacebuilders Inc — 5% 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.
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