· Private foundation
Charles Jago Elder Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
- $10k–50k9 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $500k
- $250k+1 grant · $345k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP FOR ALL FOUNDATION | $344,590 |
| ST JOHN'S SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| ZORRO'S CROSSING HORSE SANCTUARY | $200,000 |
| MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC | $100,000 |
| SIRE THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP | $30,000 |
| THE HOUSTON AUDUBON SOCIETY INC | $30,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $30,000 |
| ASSIST THE OFFICER INC | $30,000 |
| WONDERHILL FARM | $30,000 |
| MISSION K9 RESCUE | $30,000 |
| PROGRESSIVE NEW HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $214k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
Camp For All Foundation6× · 2017–2025 · $716k · revenue +280%- SJSt John's School2× · 2024–2025 · $400k · revenue +33%
- MPMemorial Park Conservancy Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $150k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- FCFAYETTEVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER GROUPone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -3%
- BMBRENHAM MAIN ST HISTORICAL PRESERVATION INCone grant, 2020 · $25k
- DCDAV CHARITABLE SERVICE TRUSTone grant, 2017 · $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 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.
Laurel's House strengthens the human animal bond improves public health decreases the number of companion animal euthanasia due to overpopulation and diminishes human impact on native wildlife species by providing unprecedented access to…
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…
Mission: Connect communities with animals, inspiring action to save wildlife. Vision: Be a leader in the global movement to save wildlife. (Continued on Schedule O) Houston Zoo, Inc. (HZI) strives to be a zoo that practices exemplary…
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Petsmart Charities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wonderhill Farm Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 53 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 Camp For All Foundation ↗
- Who funds St John's School ↗
- Who funds Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds Mission K9 Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds The Houston Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds SIRE INC ↗
- Who funds Assist the Officer Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND STRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds Guide Dogs of Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Hospice ↗
- Who funds Wonderhill Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER GROUP ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD CEMETERY HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds WORKSHOP HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds UNITY THEATRE CO ↗
- Who funds PETSMART CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds RETINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association ↗
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 · Shell USA Company Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Elkins Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Charles Jago Elder 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.
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