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Cullen Trust For Health Care at a glance

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Cullen Trust For Health Care

Support for health care institutions within Texas and primarily in the Greater Houston area.

$6.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.0M
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$36MHuman Services$2.1MEducation$1.6MHousing & Shelter$450kCrime & Legal$355kArts & Culture$175kPublic Safety & Disaster$159kPhilanthropy$125kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $2.3M
  • $250k+7 grants · $3.6M
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$126M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Baylor College of Medicine$1,000,000
Texas International Insitute of Health Care Professionals$500,000
Harris Health System$500,000
Texas Children's Hospital$500,000
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System$500,000
MD Anderson Cancer Center$351,000
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston$250,000
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast$200,000
Health Care For Special Populations dba Primary Care Innovation Center$150,000
University of Houston College of Medicine$150,000
Rice University$150,000
Houston Hospice$125,000
The Rose$125,000
Mental Health American of Greater Houston$100,000
The Immunization Partnership$100,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Covenant House Texas: $250k → 16%Catholic Charities of Diocese: $75k → 16%The Womens Home: $50k → 16%The Women's Home: $50k → 16%Catholic Charities of Galveston Houston: $50k → 16%The Womens Home: $50k → 16%Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Galveston-Houston: $50k → 16%Catholic Charities of GalHou: $50k → 16%The Womens Home: $50k → 16%Catholic Charities of Galveston Houston: $50k → 16%The Women's Home: $50k → 16%The Women's Home: $50k → 16%The Women's Home: $50k → 16%Healthcare for the Homeless: $200k → 16%Healthcare for the Homeless: $75k → 16%Healthcare for the Homeless: $75k → 16%Healthcare for the Homeless: $75k → 16%Healthcare for the Homeless: $75k → 16%Healthcare for the Homeless: $60k → 16%Healthcare for the Homeless: $60k → 16%Healthcare for the Homeless: $60k → 16%The Center For Pursuit: $250k → 16%Family Houston: $55k → 16%NW Assistance Ministries: $50k → 16%Family Houston: $50k → 16%NW Assistance Ministries: $50k → 16%Family Service Center at Hou: $50k → 16%NW Assistance Ministries: $50k → 16%Family Houston: $50k → 16%NW Assistance Ministries: $50k → 16%Family Houston: $50k → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$40M · 50 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

50 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
11

Total granted

$40M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+79%

Still filing today

90%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalCivil RightsReligionOther
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

  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicine
    6× · 2017–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +67%
  • TC
    Texas Children's Hospital
    5× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +105%
  • MH
    Memorial Hermann Foundation
    4× · 2017–2020 · $2.4M · revenue +158%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR PURSUIT
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -71%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -25%
  • UO
    University of St Thomasgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +71%
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
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
2
HealthTexas Provider Network

To deliver the highest value patient experience through quality, safety, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness, enhanced by medical education and research in collaboration with Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
3
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth

A faith-based organization whose mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves regardless of their ability to pay.

Health
4
Harris County Medical Society

Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…

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5
Texas Heart Medical Group

To provide cutting-edge cardiac care to diagnose, treat, and prevent cardiovascular diseases.

Health
6
The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center

The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center holds a freestanding 37 bed inpatient facility in the Texas Medical Center that is operated and managed by Houston Hospice.

Human Services
7
Hillcrest Family Health Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
8
Mhs Physicians of Texas

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
9
Scott & White Hospital-College Station

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
10
Texas Health Resources

Through its affiliates, thr operates an integrated healthcare system with services and facilities throughout north central texas to improve the health of the people in the communities they serve.

Health
11
Baylor Research Institute

To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
12
Christus Foundation for HealthCare

CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare is dedicated to extending the healing ministry of Jesus Christ, continuing the legacy of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word through the promotion of health and welfare to…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston Community Health Centers Inc; the most unlike its peers is William Marsh Rice University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 63 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
42/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Texas Children's Hospital: $2,800,000 · HealthTexas Children's HospitalMemorial Hermann Foundation: $2,400,000 · HealthMemorial Hermann FoundationHarris County Hospital District Foundation: $2,300,000 · HealthHarris County Hospital District FoundationTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL: $2,000,000 · HealthTHE METHODIST HOSPITALMemorial Hermann Health System: $1,600,000 · HealthMemorial Hermann Health SystemPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $1,600,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast IncTexas Heart Institute: $1,346,000 · HealthTexas Heart InstituteASIAN AMERICAN HEALTH COALITION OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA: $1,182,000 · HealthHealthcare For Special Populations: $1,125,000 · HealthLEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $850,000 · HealthIBN SINA FOUNDATION INC: $790,000 · Health+16 more: $4,626,207 · Health+16 moreUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER HOUSTON: $2,340,334 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEA…UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $1,150,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTONTHE ROSE: $1,150,000 · OtherTHE ROSEHouston Hospice: $850,000 · OtherHouston HospiceUTMD ANDERSON: $601,000 · OtherUTMD ANDERSONREMIND: $420,000 · OtherHOUSTON RECOVERY CENTER LGC: $300,000 · Other+9 more: $1,653,960 · Other+9 moreBaylor College of Medicine: $4,300,000 · EducationBaylor College of…The Texas International Institute of Health Professions: $1,300,000 · EducationThe Texas Interna…THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH: $300,000 · Education+4 more: $400,000 · Education+4 moreHEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS-HOUSTON: $680,000 · Human ServicesFamily Service Center of Houston and Harris County: $405,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S HOME: $350,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON: $275,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR PURSUIT: $250,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $250,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $200,000 · Human ServicesOpen Door Mission: $200,000 · Human ServicesBakerRipley: $109,190 · Human ServicesEL CENTRO DE CORAZON: $550,000 · Crime & LegalChildren's Assessment Center Foundation: $105,000 · Crime & LegalFRANK LIU JR FOUNDATION: $425,000 · PhilanthropyFt Bend County Child Advocates Inc: $250,000 · Civil Rights
Health$22,619,207Other$8,465,294Education$6,300,000Human Services$2,719,190Crime & Legal$655,000Philanthropy$425,000Civil Rights$250,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $4,300,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $2,800,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Hermann Foundation: $2,400,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetHarris County Hospital District Foundation: $2,300,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL: $2,000,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Hermann Health System: $1,600,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $1,600,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetTexas Heart Institute: $1,346,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetThe Texas International Institute of Health Professions: $1,300,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN HEALTH COALITION OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA: $1,182,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTHE ROSE: $1,150,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetHealthcare For Special Populations: $1,125,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetHouston Hospice: $850,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetLEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $850,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetIBN SINA FOUNDATION INC: $790,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetTHE IMMUNIZATION PARTNERSHIP: $700,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetHEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS-HOUSTON: $680,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetSPRING BRANCH COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $655,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetFORT BEND FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $600,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetEL CENTRO DE CORAZON: $550,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTIRR Foundation: $525,000 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetREMIND: $420,000 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetFamily Service Center of Houston and Harris County: $405,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetHOUSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $398,250 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetChrist Clinic: $385,000 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S HOME: $350,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH: $300,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC: $280,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON: $275,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PURSUIT: $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFt Bend County Child Advocates Inc: $250,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $250,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $223,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Council on Recovery: $200,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetThe Foundation for the Council on Recovery: $200,000 over 2y, 82% of budgetHOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetLONE STAR CIRCLE OF CARE: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $200,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetOpen Door Mission: $200,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetMental Health America of Greater Houston Inc: $195,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetHope and Healing Center & Institute: $175,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $175,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBo's Place: $175,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetInstitute for Spirituality and Health at the Texas Medical Center: $160,760 over 1y, 21% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBakerRipley: $109,190 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Assessment Center Foundation: $105,000 over 3y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds Memorial Hermann Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Harris County Hospital District Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds Memorial Hermann Health System ↗
  • Who funds Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc ↗
  • Who funds Texas Heart Institute ↗
  • Who funds The Texas International Institute of Health Professions ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN HEALTH COALITION OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA ↗
  • Who funds THE ROSE ↗
  • Who funds Healthcare For Special Populations ↗
  • Who funds Houston Hospice ↗
  • Who funds LEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds IBN SINA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE IMMUNIZATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS-HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds SPRING BRANCH COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FORT BEND FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds EL CENTRO DE CORAZON ↗
  • Who funds TIRR Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FRANK LIU JR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds REMIND ↗
  • Who funds Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County ↗
  • Who funds HOUSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Christ Clinic ↗
  • Who funds THE WOMEN'S HOME ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH ↗
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR PURSUIT ↗
  • Who funds Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds HOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Council on Recovery ↗
  • Who funds The Foundation for the Council on Recovery ↗

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.

The Methodist HospitalEpiscopal Health Foun…Greater Houston Commu…The Brown Foundation …MD Anderson FoundationUnited Way of Greater…The William Stamps Fa…Albert & Ethel Herzst…John S Dunn FoundationThe John M O'Quinn Fo…Houston Endowment IncJohn P McGovern Found…
The Methodist HospitalTX53.2× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Methodist Hospital · Episcopal Health Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · MD Anderson Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · John S Dunn Foundation · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · John P McGovern Foundation

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 Cullen Trust For Health Care funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cullen Trust For Health Care. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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

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How do I get to Cullen Trust For Health Care?

Find your warmest path to Cullen Trust For Health Care 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 63 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 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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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home