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Donum4 Foundation at a glance

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Donum4 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.

$30k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$91kEducation$38kCrime & Legal$4kInternational$3kReligion$3kRecreation & Sports$2kHuman Services$1kPhilanthropy$760Other$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
$180
Median grant
3
States reached
$202k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$27,120
Individual grant recipient$1,515
HOUSTON JUNIOR FORUM INC$756
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$180
AFMDA$180
THE SHUL OF BELLAIRE$180
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$108
EASTERSEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON$50
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 (FY21–23, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MAKE-A-WISH INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 11%LITERACY NOW: $1k → 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$134k · 8 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
13

Total granted

$134k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+28%

Still filing today

63%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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

  • TM
    THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2024 · $90k · revenue +92%
  • LO
    LAND OF MY GRANDFATHERS INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $35k · revenue +45%
  • IP
    Innocence Project of Texas
    2× · 2021–2023 · $4k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION INTERNATIONALgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +233%
  • MI
    Making It Better dba Literacy Now
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +6%
  • RC
    RESOURCE CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
2
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
3
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
4
Episcopal Health Foundation

To advance the Kingdom of God with specific focus on human health and well-being, through grants, research and initiatives in support of the mission of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas.

Health
5
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc

The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…

Health
6
OpenAI Foundation fka OpenAI Inc

OpenAIs mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

Science & Tech
7
Hand in Hand American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Isra

To promote partnership and coexistence among jewish and arab citizens of israel by providing support for integrated schools and providing funding for and assisting in program development in connection with israeli nonprofits with similar…

International
8
Institute for Applied Gerontology

The mjhs institute for innovation in palliative care is a not-for-profit organization. the institute is dedicated to promoting access to evidence-based, specialist-level palliative care for patients and families coping with serious or…

Human Services
9
Tmh Physician Organization

This organization is part of the methodist hospital, doing business as houston methodist hospital, whose mission is: to provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a spiritual…

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10
Openbiome Foundation Inc

Openbiome's mission is to expand patient access to microbiome therapies and fuel scientific discoveries that shape the future of health.

Health
11
Diabetes Research Institute Foundation Inc

To provide the diabetes research institute with the funding to cure diabetes now.

Health
12
National Jewish Health

National Jewish Health's mission since 1899 is to heal, discover and educate as a preeminent healthcare institution. We serve by providing the best integrated and innovative care for patients and their families; by understanding and…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Methodist Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

20 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. 20 of the 27 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $89,740 · HealthTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION+4 more: $938 · HealthLAND OF MY GRANDFATHERS INC: $34,790 · EducationLAND OF MY GRANDFATHERS INC+1 more: $500 · EducationHOUSTON LIVESTOCK AND RODEO: $2,050 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,515 · OtherROHR CHABAD JEWISH CENTER: $1,080 · OtherRESOURCE CENTER: $1,000 · OtherTHE SHUL OF BELLAIRE CHABAD LUBAVITCH: $680 · OtherKNOWLEDGE ARTS FOUNDATION (TEACH): $500 · OtherJ-HYPE BY CONGREGATION BETH RAMBAM: $500 · Other+6 more: $616 · OtherInnocence Project of Texas: $4,000 · Community ImprovementHouston Junior Forum Inc: $1,327 · Community ImprovementMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $2,500 · Human ServicesMaking It Better dba Literacy Now: $1,050 · Human ServicesPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $610 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $180 · PhilanthropyCitizens For Animal Protection Inc: $500 · Animals
Health$90,678Education$35,290Other$7,941Community Improvement$5,327Human Services$3,550Philanthropy$790Animals$500

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 budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $89,740 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLAND OF MY GRANDFATHERS INC: $34,790 over 2y, 21% of budgetInnocence Project of Texas: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Junior Forum Inc: $1,327 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMaking It Better dba Literacy Now: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $610 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKNOWLEDGE ARTS FOUNDATION (TEACH): $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEPHARDIC GAN TORAT EMET INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens For Animal Protection Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $288 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPHEART: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEVERYBODY BREATHE INC: $50 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Young Judaea Inc: $36 over 1y, 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.

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.

Albert & Ethel Herzst…Shell USA Company Fou…Greater Houston Commu…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…Network for GoodNatl Christian Charit…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable FoundationTX17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Donum4 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donum4 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 Donum4 Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Donum4 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 27 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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