· Private foundation
Chesmar 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
- Under $10k34 grants · $175k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $381k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $874k
- $250k+6 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOMEAID HOUSTON | $510,000 |
| DALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $445,500 |
| LONESTAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $418,310 |
| SAN JACINTO COLLEGE | $302,683 |
| ALAMO COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| NEW HOPE HOUSING | $250,000 |
| WHARTON COUNTY JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $216,338 |
| HOMEAID AUSTIN | $150,000 |
| LITERACY NOW MAKING IT BETTER | $125,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS MONTGOMERY COUNTY | $107,500 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $100,450 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| EVERYBODY'S PLACE | $75,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCATES OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY | $35,104 |
| EDFINANCIAL SERVICES | $31,013 |
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 (FY18–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% 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 +6% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
87 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 60 since wound down; 38 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
- NHNORTH HARRIS MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT3× · 2023–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +26%
- WCWHARTON CO JR COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $252k · revenue +153% · 26% of their budget
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2020–2025 · $105k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- DCDALLAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $1.0M
- JCJAMES COOK UNIVERSITY AMERICAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $400k
- SJSAN JACINTO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $303k · revenue -19%
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
South texas college of law houston provides a diverse body of students the opportunity to obtain an exceptional legal education, preparing graduates to serve their community and profession with distinction.
HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of St Thomas and the most unlike its peers is Movember Foundation. 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) — 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 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.
55 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. 55 of the 257 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NORTH HARRIS MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds New Hope Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds DALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN JACINTO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHARTON CO JR COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Houston ↗
- Who funds CASA Child Advocates of Montgomery County Inc ↗
- Who funds HomeAid Austin Inc ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS MONTGOMERY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMBLE ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FINALLY HOME ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GHBA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
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 · Marek Family Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Texas Foundation · The Woodforest Charitable Foundation · Astros Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · United Way of Greater Houston · Baker Hughes Foundation · The Arena Energy 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 Chesmar 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
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.