· Private foundation
Briar Hollow 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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL | $41,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PUMPKIN PARK | $25,000 |
| ST MARTIN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $6,000 |
| SILVER CREEK HERITAGE SOCIETY | $5,200 |
| ST MICHAEL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| RICE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| HUNT METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| FIRST METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| WALDEMAR LEGACY FUND | $5,000 |
| MENNINGER CLINIC | $2,500 |
| ST FRANCIS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| HOPE & HEALING CENTER | $2,000 |
| THE CHILDRENS FUND | $1,500 |
| THETA CHARITY EVENTS | $1,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of Briar Hollow Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTexas Children's Hospital5× · 2018–2025 · $36k · revenue +83%
- WMWilliam Marsh Rice University6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +68%
- TMTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $25k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- HMHOUSTON METHODIST HOPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $25k
- HFHSPVA FRIENDS CAPITAL CAMPAIGNone grant, 2018 · $10k
- HPHUNT PRESERVATION SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue ×19 · 61% of their budget
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.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
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,…
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,…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center holds a freestanding 37 bed inpatient facility in the Texas Medical Center that is operated and managed by Houston Hospice.
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,…
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…
American Leadership Forum (ALF) brings together, in classes, leaders with diverse perspectives so they can build relationships, learn to dialogue and respectfully differ, and work together for the good of our community.
To provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a spiritual environment of caring in association with internationally recognized teaching and research.
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…
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…
Trade association for real estate agents and brokers. provide education and training for members. promote services provided by members to the public.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 54 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.
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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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The Crain Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Judith and Henry Sauer Charitable Foundation · Greentree Fund · Brazelton Family Foundation · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Daniel P & Annette B Gordon Foundati
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Briar Hollow Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Briar Hollow Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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