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Douglas Grymes Charitable 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.

$5k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
10%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 10% of the organizations Douglas Grymes Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthCommunity Improvement
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$5k17%
FY202310$10k10%
FY202211$14k0%
FY202112$15k0%
FY202012$14k8%
FY201911$13k0%
FY201811$12k0%
FY201711$10kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$36kHousing & Shelter$15kFood & Nutrition$8kEducation$7kInternational$5kYouth Development$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kCommunity Improvement$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Women's Home$7,50080%
Star of Hope Mission$7,50080%
The Houston Food Bank$7,50080%
San Jose Clinic$7,0007n/a
Lighthouse For The Blind Of Houston Inc$5,25060%
Children Incorporated$5,25070%
Workshop Houston$5,00050%
Catholic Relief Services$3,5007n/a
Living Life Source Foundation$2,00017%
Focus on Renewal Sto-Rox Neighborhood Corporation$2,00040%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($38k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Douglas Grymes Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Women's Home: $7,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetStar of Hope Mission: $7,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $7,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLighthouse For The Blind Of Houston Inc: $5,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChildren Incorporated: $5,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWorkshop Houston: $5,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLiving Life Source Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetFocus on Renewal Sto-Rox Neighborhood Corporation: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
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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.

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About Douglas Grymes Charitable Foundation

How much does Douglas Grymes Charitable Foundation give?
Douglas Grymes Charitable Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $4,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Douglas Grymes Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (40%), Housing & Shelter (17%), Food & Nutrition (8%).
Who are Douglas Grymes Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Women's Home ($8k), Star of Hope Mission ($8k), The Houston Food Bank ($8k).
Does Douglas Grymes Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Douglas Grymes Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Douglas Grymes Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Douglas Grymes Charitable Foundation based?
Douglas Grymes Charitable Foundation is based in TX.

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 14 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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