· Private foundation
Dawson O and Allison B George Fndn
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNG LIFE HOUSTON SOUTHWEST | $6,000 |
| LOGOS LEADERS OUTREACH | $5,000 |
| THE URBAN ALTERNATIVE | $5,000 |
| AMAZING PLACE | $5,000 |
| JDRF SOUTHERN TEXAS CHAPTER | $5,000 |
| AUSTIN RIDGE BIBLE CHURCH | $5,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $5,000 |
| THE MICAH PROJECT | $5,000 |
| WEST HOUSTON YOUNG LIFE | $3,500 |
| GRACE BIBLE CHURCH | $2,500 |
| SERENITY RETREAT FOR HEALING & SPIRITUAL RENEWAL | $2,000 |
| RE MIND DEPRESSION & BIPOLAR SUPPORT | $2,000 |
| HOUSTON AREA PARKINSON SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| TIRR FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $1k) 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 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 +26% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- TKThe Kinkaid School Inc3× · 2017–2020 · $30k · revenue +87%
- LLLOGOS LEADERS OUTREACH4× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +5%
- MPMICAH PROJECT INC3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- FLFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +98%
- EHEPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $5k
- WFWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +47%
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.
Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
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.
Covenant HomeCare provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…
As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Chattooga Chamber 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 43 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 35 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 The Kinkaid School Inc ↗
- Who funds LOGOS LEADERS OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds MICAH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds The Urban Alternative ↗
- Who funds TIRR Foundation ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Serenity Retreat for Healing and Spiritual Renewal ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISE S MCGEHEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds Houston Area Parkinson Society ↗
- Who funds DESIRING GOD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds LifeHouse of Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds CHATTOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Houston Hospice ↗
- Who funds Tanglewood Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH ↗
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 · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Dawson O and Allison B George Fndn 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.