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Cheniere 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.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
119
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$180k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$2.7MEnvironment$2.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.7MFood & Nutrition$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.1MHealth$1.0MRecreation & Sports$852kHuman Services$818kOther$0
02FY2024 · 119 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k35 grants · $174k
  • $10k–50k60 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $1.7M
$15,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$86k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Thurgood Marshall College Fund$180,000
Texas A&M University Corpus Christi Foundation$135,000
SETX Traffic Project$100,000
City Of Gregory$100,000
Brees Dream Foundation$100,000
Galveston Bay Foundation$75,000
Education to Employment Workforce Development Programs$75,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
Johnson Bayou Fire Equipment$70,000
Kids Meals$50,000
Port Arthur Education Foundation Mentoring Program$50,000
Prairie View A&M University Foundation$50,000
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Project$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
Pleasure Island TX Economic Development Prj$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $720k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Catholic Charities Of The Diocese Of Santa Rosa: $5k → 9%Heroes On The Water: $5k → 5%Connections Individual And Family Services Inc: $70 → 10%Charity Navigator: $3k → 7%Southeast Texas Food Bank: $1k → 19%Charity Navigator: $1k → 7%Texas Association Of Black Personnel In Higher Education: $25k → 10%Kids Meals: $53k → 16%Kids Meals Inc: $50k → 16%Catholic Charities DC: $10k → 14%Kids Meals Inc: $5k → 16%Catholic Charities Of The Archdiocese Of Washington: $10k → 14%Catholic Charities Of Southeast Texas: $6k → 19%Wesley Community Center: $5k → 16%YWCA Corpus Christi: $15k → 17%Catholic Charities Of The Archdiocese Of Galveston-Houston: $20k → 16%Montrose Grace Place: $8k → 16%Montrose Grace Place: $5k → 16%Montrose Grace Place: $5k → 16%Montrose Grace Place: $5k → 16%Sewa International Inc: $121k → 16%Corpus Christi Int'l Seamen's Center: $55k → 17%Making It Better dba Literacy Now: $30k → 16%Literacy Now: $25k → 16%Corpus Christi Int'l Seamen's Center: $10k → 17%Making It Better dba Literacy Now: $17k → 16%Making It Better dba Literacy Now: $10k → 16%Foster Angels Of South Texas Foundation: $2k → 17%Mission Of Mercy Inc: $15k → 17%Mission of Mercy: $5k → 17%Making It Better DBA Literacy Now: $20k → 16%Kids Meals Inc: $50k → 16%Kids Meals: $50k → 16%Kids Meals: $50k → 16%Partners For Harris County Children Inc: $10k → 16%Kids Meals Inc: $6k → 16%Kids Meals Inc: $3k → 16%Dress For Success Houston: $5k → 16%Dress for Success Houston: $1k → 16%Dress For Success Houston: $140 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MN
MA
IA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
TN
DC
OK
LA
MS
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Cheniere Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 65% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 56%.

Cheniere Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.4M · 92 repeat orgs$5.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

92 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2024, 56 since wound down; 71 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

92
169

Total granted

$8.4M
$3.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+16%

Still filing today

62%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HP
    Houston Parks Board
    4× · 2021–2024 · $465k · revenue +92%
  • CB
    COASTAL BEND BAYS & ESTUARIES PROGRAM INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $400k · revenue +213%
  • PA
    PORT ARTHUR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $353k · revenue +140%

Funded once

  • FO
    Friends of the Texas Historical Commission Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +19%
  • PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXASgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +31%
  • WC
    West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $230k · revenue +19% · 31% 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.

04Its field

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.

1
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
2
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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3
Coastal Prairie Conservancy

The Coastal Prairie Conservancy (CPC) works to sustain a resilient Texas by preserving coastal prairies, wetlands, farms, and ranches to benefit people and wildlife forever. Continued on Schedule OCPC conserves land, restores and enhances…

Environment
4
United Way of Brazoria County

To educate, unite and focus our community's resources in order to efficiently address the most critical needs of Brazoria County

Philanthropy
5
Healthy Gulf

Healthy Gulfs purpose is to collaborate with and serve communities who love the Gulf of Mexico by providing the research, communications, and coalition-building tools needed to reverse the long pattern of over exploitation of the Gulfs…

Environment
6
Christus Health Foundation of Southeast Texas

Christus health foundation of southeast texas serves the philanthropic needs of christus health southeast texas by soliciting and distributing contributions in support of christus health southeast texas.

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7
West Texas Food Bank

The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…

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8
Build Galveston

Build Galveston is a nonprofit community development corporation focused on developing attainable workforce housing for Galveston's first responders, teachers, healthcare and hospitality workers.

Community Improvement
9
American Leadership Forum Houston Gulf Coast Chapter

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.

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10
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
11
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
12
Community Action Corporation of South Texas

To continuously improve the lives of South Texans by providing high quality health care, education, housing and economic opportunities to reduce poverty through services and partnerships.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana; the most unlike its peers is World Voices Houston. 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

147 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. 147 of the 335 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
144/147
Grantees still filing
89/147
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

City Of Port Arthur: $400,000 · OtherCOASTAL BEND FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 · Other+145 more: $7,029,576 · Other+145 moreThurgood Marshall College Fund: $683,100 · EducationThurgood Marsh…PORT ARTHUR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $352,500 · EducationPORT ARTHUR ED…TEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI FOUNDATION: $264,950 · EducationTEXAS A&M-CORP…Louisiana Community Technical College System Foundation: $100,000 · EducationLouisiana Comm…CITIZENS FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $93,700 · EducationMCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $90,000 · Education+6 more: $181,384 · Education+6 moreCOASTAL BEND BAYS & ESTUARIES PROGRAM INC: $400,000 · EnvironmentCOASTAL BEN…PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $250,000 · EnvironmentPARKS AND W…RESTORE AMERICA'S ESTUARIES: $170,000 · EnvironmentRESTORE AME…Galveston Bay Foundation Inc: $145,000 · EnvironmentGalveston B…LOUISIANA WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES FOUNDATION: $145,000 · EnvironmentLOUISIANA W…COALITION TO RESTORE COASTAL LOUISIANA: $100,000 · EnvironmentCOALITION T…COASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · EnvironmentCOASTAL CON…THE BUILDING CONSERVATION TRUST: $90,000 · EnvironmentTHE BUILDIN…+2 more: $35,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA: $600,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY …Houston Parks Board: $465,000 · PhilanthropyHouston Pa…BREES DREAM FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyBREES DREA…COASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $60,200 · PhilanthropyBARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION: $52,500 · PhilanthropyDEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $35,233 · PhilanthropyKIDS' MEALS INC: $266,351 · Human ServicesSewa International Inc: $121,000 · Human ServicesMaking It Better dba Literacy Now: $102,150 · Human ServicesCORPUS CHRISTI INTERNATIONAL SEAFARERS' CENTER: $65,000 · Human ServicesSoutheast Texas Food Bank Inc: $61,190 · Human Services+7 more: $142,500 · Human ServicesBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $265,000 · HealthWest Calcasieu Cameron Hospital Foundation: $230,000 · HealthJulie Rogers Gift of Life Program: $77,500 · HealthChristus Spohn Health System DEVELOPMENT FND: $30,000 · Health+3 more: $34,068 · HealthSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $196,500 · Housing & ShelterHouston Habitat for Humanity Inc: $140,000 · Housing & ShelterRebuilding Together Houston: $46,000 · Housing & ShelterSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $32,657 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $10,392 · Housing & Shelter
Other$7,704,576Education$1,765,634Environment$1,435,000Philanthropy$1,362,933Human Services$758,191Health$636,568Housing & Shelter$425,549

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund: $683,100 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA: $600,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetHouston Parks Board: $465,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCOASTAL BEND BAYS & ESTUARIES PROGRAM INC: $400,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetPORT ARTHUR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $352,500 over 5y, 13% of budgetCOASTAL BEND FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $266,351 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $265,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI FOUNDATION: $264,950 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetFriends of the Texas Historical Commission Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $250,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTriangle Community Outreach Inc: $240,005 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetWest Calcasieu Cameron Hospital Foundation: $230,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $196,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDC Greens Inc: $180,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetRESTORE AMERICA'S ESTUARIES: $170,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGalveston Bay Foundation Inc: $145,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLOUISIANA WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES FOUNDATION: $145,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetHouston Habitat for Humanity Inc: $140,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOASTAL BEND FOOD BANK: $127,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUSO OF SOUTH TEXAS INC: $127,400 over 1y, 17% of budgetSewa International Inc: $121,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCARE HELP OF SULPHUR INC: $113,758 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of SWLA Inc: $110,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $104,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMaking It Better dba Literacy Now: $102,150 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCOALITION TO RESTORE COASTAL LOUISIANA: $100,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetSOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetLouisiana Community Technical College System Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetBREES DREAM FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetCOASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCITIZENS FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $93,700 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetMCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BUILDING CONSERVATION TRUST: $90,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetJulie Rogers Gift of Life Program: $77,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCORPUS CHRISTI INTERNATIONAL SEAFARERS' CENTER: $65,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSoutheast Texas Food Bank Inc: $61,190 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $60,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ACADIANA INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetYOUTH ODYSSEY INC: $60,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetBARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION: $52,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetDEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFTFUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRebuilding Together Houston: $46,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPort Arthur International Seamen's Center Inc: $45,650 over 4y, 5.8% of budget
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.

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.

Coastal Bend Communit…Behmann Brothers Foun…The John G and Marie …Greater Houston Commu…Centerpoint Energy Fo…Shell USA Company Fou…United Way of the Coa…Ed Rachal FoundationBaker Hughes Foundati…Albert & Ethel Herzst…The Brown Foundation …The Methodist Hospital
Coastal Bend Community FoundationTX47.9× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Bend Community Foundation · Behmann Brothers Foundation · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · United Way of the Coastal Bend Inc · Ed Rachal Foundation · Baker Hughes Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Methodist Hospital

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cheniere Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cheniere Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    42report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Cheniere Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Cheniere Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 335 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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