· Private foundation
Charles Jago Elder Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k9 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $500k
- $250k+1 grant · $345k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP FOR ALL FOUNDATION | $344,590 |
| ZORRO'S CROSSING HORSE SANCTUARY | $200,000 |
| ST JOHN'S SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC | $100,000 |
| THE HOUSTON AUDUBON SOCIETY INC | $30,000 |
| MISSION K9 RESCUE | $30,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $30,000 |
| ASSIST THE OFFICER INC | $30,000 |
| WONDERHILL FARM | $30,000 |
| SIRE THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP | $30,000 |
| PROGRESSIVE NEW HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Camp For All Foundation6× · 2017–2025 · $716k · revenue +327%- 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
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.
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…
How this is measured
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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.
- 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 SIRE INC ↗
- Who funds RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- 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 Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds RETINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles Jago Elder Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles Jago Elder Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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