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Denmannewman 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.

$55k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$126kEducation$61kArts & Culture$55kHuman Services$49kAnimals$43kScience & Tech$25kHealth$5kHousing & Shelter$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$4,570
Median grant
3
States reached
$456k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROCO$10,000
MUS FOUNDATION$7,500
THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE$6,873
THE HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE$5,000
FRIENDS OF WYCLIFFE HALL OXFORD$5,000
SEMINARY OF THE SOUTHWEST$5,000
HOUSTON ZOO$4,570
THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON$2,500
LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL$2,500
AMAZING PLACE$2,000
YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS$1,000
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER$1,000
THE BEACON$1,000
LORD OF THE STREETS$965
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL: $10k → 14%SEMINARY OF THE SOUTHWEST: $5k → 10%LORD OF THE STREETS: $1k → 16%FRIENDS OF WYCLIFFE HALL OXFORD: $5k → 13%LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL: $10k → 14%SEMINARY OF THE SOUTHWEST: $5k → 10%LORD OF THE STREETS: $1k → 16%FRIENDS OF WYCLIFFE HALL OXFORD: $5k → 13%LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL: $10k → 14%SEMINARY OF THE SOUTHWEST: $5k → 10%YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS: $1k → 16%FRIENDS OF WYCLIFFE HALL OXFORD: $5k → 13%LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL: $3k → 14%SEMINARY OF THE SOUTHWEST: $5k → 10%LORD OF THE STREETS: $1k → 16%FRIENDS OF WYCLIFFE HALL OXFORD: $5k → 13%SANTA BARBARA ZOO: $10k → 14%SEMINARY OF THE SOUTHWEST: $5k → 10%LORD OF THE STREETS: $1k → 16%FRIENDS OF WYCLIFFE HALL OXFORD: $5k → 13%SANTA BARBARA ZOO: $10k → 14%RIVER OAKS BAPTIST SCHOOL: $10k → 16%ROCO: $10k → 16%RIVER OAKS BAPTIST SCHOOL: $10k → 16%AMAZING PLACE: $2k → 16%AMAZING PLACE: $2k → 16%AMAZING PLACE: $2k → 16%AMAZING PLACE: $2k → 16%AMAZING PLACE: $2k → 16%HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE: $5k → 16%THE HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE: $5k → 16%HOUSTON ZOO: $5k → 16%THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE: $31k → 16%THE HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE: $5k → 16%THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE: $31k → 16%THE HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE: $5k → 16%RIVER OAKS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $10k → 16%THE HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE: $5k → 16%ROCO: $10k → 16%HOUSTON ZOO: $5k → 16%ROCO: $10k → 16%HOUSTON ZOO: $5k → 16%ROCO: $10k → 16%HOUSTON ZOO: $5k → 16%THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE: $7k → 16%THE MENIL COLLECTION: $5k → 16%HOUSTON ZOO: $5k → 16%THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE: $7k → 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$342k · 16 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
3

Total granted

$342k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+62%

Still filing today

56%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • LB
    LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL
    4× · 2021–2024 · $33k · revenue +18%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF WYCLIFFE HALL OXFORD INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +81%
  • Houston Zoo Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • RO
    River Oaks Chamber Orchestragraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +62%
  • TC
    Texas Children's Hospitalgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +61%
  • MF
    Menil Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +103%
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 Botanic Garden

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

Environment
2
Trees for Houston

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

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3
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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4
John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science

The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…

Arts & Culture
5
The Heritage Society

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…

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6
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

CAMH presents extraordinary and thought-provoking arts programming and exhibitions.

Arts & Culture
7
Presbyterian School

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…

Education
8
St John's School

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…

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9
The Houston Audubon Society

To advance the conservation of birds and their habitats in the Greater Houston Gulf Coast region by acquiring and maintaining critical habitat as bird sanctuaries, providing education programs and nature experiences, and advocating policy…

Environment
10
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

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.

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11
Houston Academy of Medicine

The mission of the Houston Academy of Medicine is to support the community service, education, scientific, and charitable programs for physicians, their patients, and the community at large in Harris County.

Education
12
The Awty International School

See Schedule OThe purpose of Awty International School (Awty) is to create an environment where students experience excellence every day to make their mark on the world alongside their community, in a spirit of curiosity, courage and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Beacon of Downtown Houston; the most unlike its peers is Agape Development Ministries. 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

12 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. 12 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE: $76,156 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINEROCO: $40,000 · OtherROCOEPISCOPAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE SOUTHWEST: $25,000 · OtherEPISCOPAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE SOUTHWESTRIVER OAKS BAPTIST SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherRIVER OAKS BAPTIST SCHOOLAMAZING PLACE: $10,000 · OtherTHE SHEPHERD SOCIETY - RICE UNIVERSITY SHEPHERD SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $10,000 · OtherMUS FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Other+2 more: $5,965 · OtherLAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL: $32,500 · EducationLAGUNA BLANCA SCHO…FRIENDS OF WYCLIFFE HALL OXFORD INC: $25,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF WYCLIFF…Agape Development Ministries: $2,000 · EducationHouston Museum of Natural Science: $25,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Museum o…THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF FI…River Oaks Chamber Orchestra: $10,000 · Arts & CultureRiver Oaks Chamb…Menil Foundation Inc: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMenil Foundation…Houston Zoo Inc: $23,280 · AnimalsHouston Zoo I…SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · AnimalsSANTA BARBARA…Christian Community Service Center Inc: $9,000 · Human ServicesTexas Children's Hospital: $5,000 · HealthTHE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON: $4,000 · Health
Other$194,621Education$59,500Arts & Culture$55,000Animals$43,280Human Services$9,000Health$9,000

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 budgetLAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL: $32,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF WYCLIFFE HALL OXFORD INC: $25,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Zoo Inc: $23,280 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRiver Oaks Chamber Orchestra: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetChristian Community Service Center Inc: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMenil Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAgape Development Ministries: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF WYCLIFFE HALL OXFORD INC ↗
  • Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
  • Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds River Oaks Chamber Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds Christian Community Service Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds Menil Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds Agape Development Ministries ↗

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 William Stamps Fa…Greater Houston Commu…The Brown Foundation …National Philanthropi…The Chicago Community…Shell USA Company Fou…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The William Stamps Farish FundTX15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Stamps Farish Fund · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · Shell USA Company Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Denmannewman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Denmannewman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Denmannewman Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Denmannewman 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 21 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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