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Dudley Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $267k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL | $500,000 |
| PURDUE FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| INOVA HEALTH SYSTEMS FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND | $100,000 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND | $100,000 |
| HOUSTON GRAND OPERA ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| KIDS MEALS | $40,000 |
| URBAN HARVEST | $32,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN | $30,000 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| COLUMBIA LAND TRUST | $25,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON | $25,000 |
| EGYPTIAN THEATER | $20,000 |
| THE KINKAID SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| ZENGER FARMS | $15,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $177k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% 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 +56% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 7 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k 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
- UHUrban Harvest Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $156k · revenue +102%
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND5× · 2018–2022 · $155k · revenue +3%
COLUMBIA LAND TRUST6× · 2018–2024 · $140k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- FFFOOD FOR OTHERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $51k · revenue +33%
- OFOHSU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $30k
- DLDeschutes Land Trustgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +158%
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.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Mission: Connect communities with animals, inspiring action to save wildlife. Vision: Be a leader in the global movement to save wildlife. (Continued on Schedule O) Houston Zoo, Inc. (HZI) strives to be a zoo that practices exemplary…
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,…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Texas Gulf Coast & Louisiana Inc and 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.
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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 64 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 INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Urban Harvest Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ZENGER FARM ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR OTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds Crime Stoppers of Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds The Kinkaid School Inc ↗
- Who funds DESCHUTES RIVER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AUTHORS GREENHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Park City Performances ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Park City Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Deschutes Land Trust ↗
- Who funds PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The Crain Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Brown Foundation 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 Dudley Family Foundation 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.
- Deschutes Land Trust — 46% of income from government
- Friends of Zenger Farm — 28% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
- Friends of the Children-Portland — 5% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Salmonberry Trail Foundation — 1% of income from government
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.