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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.

$406k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$594kReligion$384kAnimals$72kEmployment$46kHealth$44kYouth Development$19kRecreation & Sports$18kArts & Culture$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$40k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
HOPE & HEALING-INSTITUTE$5,000
FELLOWSHIP CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$5,000
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY$5,000
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION$5,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR$5,000
KINKAID SCHOOL$2,500
RE MIND$2,500
YOUNG LIFE$2,000
SPRINGSPIRIT INC$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ORPHANED STARFISH FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%MEMORIAL ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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MN
NY
MA
CA
CO
MO
VA
AZ
TN
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 39 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
76

Total granted

$1.1M
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+17%

Still filing today

67%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AC
    AUSTIN CHRISTIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION DBA ST FRANCIS SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2024 · $356k · revenue +38%
  • SS
    Small Steps Nurturing Center
    8× · 2017–2025 · $156k · revenue +64%
  • TK
    The Kinkaid School Inc
    5× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • AL
    ABIDE & LEADgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +26%
  • LF
    LONGHORN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • LL
    Little League Baseball Inc 3431607 Post Oak LL
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +5%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

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…

Education
2
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
3
Texas Medical Association

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…

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4
Houston Independent School District Foundation

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…

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5
Baylor Scott & White Holdings

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
6
The Woodlands Christian Academy

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…

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7
Mhs Physicians of Texas

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,…

Health
8
Scott & White Hospital-College Station

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
9
Texas Children's Hospital Foundation

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.

Health
10
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

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,…

Health
11
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
12
The Royal School System

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Hermann Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 121 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
64/65
Grantees still filing
48/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HILLTOP ADVENTURES (FKA ENDLESS RIVER MINISTRIES): $250,000 · OtherHILLTOP ADVENTURES (FKA ENDLESS RIVER MINISTRIES)GRACE BIBLE CHURCH: $80,000 · OtherGRACE BIBLE CHURCHJH RANCH: $71,795 · OtherJH RANCHTHE EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF AMERICA: $50,000 · OtherTHE EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF AMERICAUNIVERSITY OF VA: $25,000 · Other+79 more: $91,364 · Other+79 moreAUSTIN CHRISTIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION DBA ST FRANCIS SCHOOL: $355,502 · EducationAUSTIN CHRISTIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION DBA ST FRA…Small Steps Nurturing Center: $155,750 · EducationSmall Steps Nurturing Center+10 more: $32,276 · Education+10 moreTHE WORKFAITH CONNECTION: $46,300 · EmploymentYOUNG LIFE: $9,500 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROUNITAS INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentONEGOAL: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCamp For All Foundation: $3,600 · Youth DevelopmentTHE HUB HOUSTON INC: $5,500 · HealthTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $3,700 · HealthTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $3,500 · HealthNora's Gift Foundation Inc: $2,600 · Health+8 more: $1,100 · HealthNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Museum of Natural Science: $500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $300 · Arts & CultureABIDE & LEAD: $5,000 · Public BenefitBIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Public Benefit
Other$568,159Education$543,528Employment$46,300Youth Development$33,100Health$16,400Arts & Culture$10,800Public Benefit$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAUSTIN CHRISTIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION DBA ST FRANCIS SCHOOL: $355,502 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetSmall Steps Nurturing Center: $155,750 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetTHE WORKFAITH CONNECTION: $46,300 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetThe Kinkaid School Inc: $11,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $9,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUB HOUSTON INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetABIDE & LEAD: $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLittle League Baseball Inc 3431607 Post Oak LL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROUNITAS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetONEGOAL: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $3,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCamp For All Foundation: $3,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREMIND: $3,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNora's Gift Foundation Inc: $2,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMemorial Assistance Ministries: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRAZELTON TOUCHPOINTS PROJECT INC: $1,650 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetARCHWAY ACADEMY: $1,650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Hospice: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAMAR HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATIO: $1,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTrees For Houston: $1,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FORGE FOR FAMILIES: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTexas One Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOrphaned Starfish Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE 100 CLUB INC: $900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRiver Oaks Garden Club: $875 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEX-STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF UT: $826 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHALO FLIGHT INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoots on the Court Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARIS FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Hermann Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJerusalem Peacebuilders Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ABIDE & LEAD ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds Little League Baseball Inc 3431607 Post Oak LL ↗
  • Who funds PROUNITAS INC ↗
  • Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
  • 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 Memorial Assistance Ministries ↗
  • Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds BRAZELTON TOUCHPOINTS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds ARCHWAY ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Houston Hospice ↗

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.

Greater Houston Commu…The Brown Foundation …Albert & Ethel Herzst…Shell USA Company Fou…Vivian L Smith Founda…The John M O'Quinn Fo…Sterling-Turner Found…Strake FoundationJ Squared Family Foun…MD Anderson FoundationThe Elkins FoundationHarry S & Isabel C Ca…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX40× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brazelton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brazelton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Jerusalem Peacebuilders Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Brazelton Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Brazelton Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 121 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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