· Private foundation
CFP Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k38 grants · $825k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+2 grants · $900k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St John's School | $500,000 |
| Southern Methodist University | $400,000 |
| University of Texas at Austin - Texas Challenge | $200,000 |
| Southern Methodist University | $127,040 |
| University of Texas at Austin - The Blanton Museum of Art | $125,000 |
| Ex Students Association of the University of Texas | $117,000 |
| Texas Children's Hospital | $100,000 |
| FuelEd Schools Inc | $100,000 |
| The Methodist Hospital Foundation dba Houston Methodist Hospital Foundation | $100,000 |
| University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center | $100,000 |
| Uplift Education | $95,000 |
| Small Steps Nurturing Center | $75,000 |
| YES Prep Public Schools Inc | $75,000 |
| Houston Museum of Natural Science | $70,000 |
| Houston Hospice | $65,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
54 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
Southern Methodist University4× · 2021–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +18%- SJSt John's School4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +118%
- EAEX-STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF UT4× · 2021–2024 · $434k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- PCPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +65%
- PCPositive Coaching Alliance - North Texasone grant, 2021 · $25k
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 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.
Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…
See Schedule OThe purpose of Awty International School (Awty) is to create an environment where students experience excellence every day to make their mark on the world alongside their community, in a spirit of curiosity, courage and…
St. Peter Catholic High School empowers students to be models of faith through Catholic spiritual formation, while providing a creative and comprehensive education in career and technical pathways.
See Schedule O. The Fay School ("the School") is a nonsectarian, not-for-profit, co-educational school in which children of diverse talents and backgrounds with strong academic abilities are offered a high-quality education in a secure,…
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…
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…
Provide quality education for students from pre school through middle school using the Montessori method of learning and teaching.
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.
To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.
MADE Houston was formed to create a school community focused on nurturing and developing the unique academic and social needs of students with learning differences and to successfully transition students into mainstream schools.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Children's Hospital and the most unlike its peers is The Museum of Fine Arts Houston. 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 38 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 61 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 Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds St John's School ↗
- Who funds Small Steps Nurturing Center ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds EX-STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF UT ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds Camp For All Foundation ↗
- Who funds YES Prep Public Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds CHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FuelEd Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Houston ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds EMERGE Fellowship ↗
- Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
- Who funds Salesmanship Club of Dallas ↗
- Who funds CASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Houston Hospice ↗
- Who funds Houston Arboretum & Nature Center ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Monarch School Monarch Institute for Neurological Diff ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
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 · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The Tapeats Fund · The Powell Foundation · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · Strake Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Dallas 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 organization CFP 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.
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.