How much did CARL & PHYLLIS DETERING FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of CARL & PHYLLIS DETERING FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

waller

2020

food bankbendwaller

2021

food bankbendwaller

2022

—

2023

—

2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k12 grants · $25k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$1.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

KINCAID SCHOOL$50,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON$10,000
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF HOUSTON$5,000
TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$4,000
RIVER OAKS GARDEN CLUB$2,500
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS - HOUSTON$2,500
INT'L STOCKMAN'S EDUCATIONAL FOUNDA$2,500
ORANGE SHOW CENTER VISIONARY ART$2,073
BAYOU BEND COLLECTIONS & GARDENS$1,500
THE HERITAGE SOCIETY$1,000
MERCURY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA$1,000
WALLER COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION$1,000
ELISABET NEY MUSEUM$1,000
FOCUSING FAMILIES$1,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 14%. 75% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$436k · 23 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$436k

$43k

Still filing today

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentHealthEducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther

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

COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON
5× · 2019–2024 · $26k · revenue +39%
TC
Texas Children's Hospital
8× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +58%
TH
THE HERITAGE SOCIETY
6× · 2019–2024 · $6k · revenue +15%

Funded once

WB
WORLD BRAHMAN CONGRESS
one grant, 2022 · $10k
HM
Houston Museum of Fine Arts
one grant, 2018 · $9k
CA
CULVER ACADEMIES
one grant, 2020 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Hermann Park Conservancy

The Conservancy enhances and maintains Hermann Park (one of Houston's most historic and popular green spaces), manages impressive renovations of the Park, and is responsible for extensive reforestation efforts and maintenance initiatives…

Environment

Houston Museum of Natural Science

The Houston Museum of Natural Science (HMNS) serves as a valuable resources for the Houston community, offering extensive collections, exciting interactive exhibits, immersive environments, engaging films, compelling traveling exhibitions,…

Arts & Culture

Trees for Houston

Trees For Houston grows, plants and maintains trees throughout the greater Houston area.

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Houston MediaSource

Houston MediaSource provides public access cable television programming for the City of Houston.

Arts & Culture

Houston Parks Board

To expand, improve, and protect parks and greenspace in the Houston region.

Philanthropy

Houston Freedmen's Town Conservancy Inc

To protect and preserve Freedmen's Town's history for future generations' benefit.

Community Improvement

John P McGovern Museum of Health &

To provide engaging, informal learning experiences to the general public via exhibits & programs.

Arts & Culture

Houston Museum of Decorative Arts

The mission of the houston museum of decorative arts is to preserve, enhance, present, and promote the decorative art collection of the late anna safley houston for public understanding, education, and enjoyment; to increase public…

Arts & Culture

Houston Symphony Society

Orchestral performances, educational programs, and community activities.

Arts & Culture

Harris County Medical Society

Harris County Medical Society serves as a professional organization for over 13,000 physicians.

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The Houston Audubon Society

Houston Audubon Society strives to advance the conservation of birds and their habitats.

Environment

Garden Club of Houston

The mission of the Garden Club of Houston is to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening and to protect the quality of the environment through programs and action in the fields of education, conservation, and civic improvement.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Society and the most unlike its peers is The Houston Food Bank. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

15/15

Grantees still filing

10/15

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$354,106Environment$50,500Arts & Culture$28,000Education$26,167Health$20,500Community Improvement$5,000Recreation & Sports$4,500

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.

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.

Greater Houston Community FoundationTX14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation CARL & PHYLLIS DETERING 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.

2024

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Waller County Historical Society.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~632 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +69% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 760127580 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Waller County Historical Society, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 632 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Carl & Phyllis Detering Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CARL & PHYLLIS DETERING FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Carl & Phyllis Detering Foundation?

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CARL & PHYLLIS DETERING FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Carl & Phyllis Detering Foundation?

More from the funding graph