· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TH CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH | $2,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S HOME | $500 |
| UNCF | $500 |
| STAR OF HOPE | $500 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $500 |
| SEARCH | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TWTHE WOMEN'S HOME8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +38%
The Houston Food Bank8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +107%- CICHILDREN INCORPORATED7× · 2017–2023 · $5k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- LLLIVING LIFE SOURCE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue 0%
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.
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.
LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.
Houston health foundation (hhf) has the mission of creating private/public partnerships for sustainable health and wellness initiatives and programs in our communities.
Trees of hope transforms lives with fundraising and outreach activities for the exclusive benefit of childrens programs at star of hope, houston's largest mission for the homeless.
Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.
The mission of Target Hunger is to alleviate hunger and its root causes in the Houston neighborhoods we serve. Target Hunger is on the front lines of hunger every day through its food distribution system that includes multiple food…
The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.
Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.
To equip families with the tools they need to become self-sufficent members of the community.
Pathways' mission is: transforming lives, families and communities.
Our mission, vision and approach to homelessness are rooted in core hawaiian values that guide our outcomes and overall impact.
Association house's mission is to advance each person's full participation in the life of their families, communities, and society. since 1899, we have served a vibrant, multicultural community. we used a trauma informed, culturally…
To provide life-stabilizing, affordable housing and support for people with very limited incomes.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 14 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE WOMEN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Lighthouse For The Blind Of Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WORKSHOP HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds LIVING LIFE SOURCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ON RENEWAL STO-ROX NEIGHBORHOOD CORPORATION ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Douglas Grymes Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Douglas Grymes Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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