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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.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$5.9MEducation$3.9MPhilanthropy$1.4MFood & Nutrition$435kArts & Culture$245kEnvironment$220kYouth Development$185kCrime & Legal$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $267k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PURDUE FOUNDATION$500,000
HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL$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
COLUMBIA LAND TRUST$25,000
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON$25,000
WELLESLEY COLLEGE$25,000
EGYPTIAN THEATER$20,000
THE KINKAID SCHOOL$15,000
ZENGER FARMS$15,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FOOD FOR OTHERS: $51k → 6%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $10k → 12%RAPHEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $10k → 12%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $3k → 16%KIDS MEALS: $52k → 16%KIDS MEALS: $40k → 16%KIDS MEALS: $7k → 16%KIDS MEALS: $4k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OR
IN
UT
CO
KY
VA
DC
TX
FL
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 35 repeat orgs$324k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
19

Total granted

$11M
$154k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+27%

Still filing today

83%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • UH
    Urban Harvest Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $156k · revenue +102%
  • FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND
    5× · 2018–2022 · $155k · revenue +3%
  • COLUMBIA LAND TRUST
    6× · 2018–2024 · $140k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • FF
    FOOD FOR OTHERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $51k · revenue +33%
  • OF
    OHSU FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • DL
    Deschutes Land Trustgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +158%
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
Trees for Houston

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

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2
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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3
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

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…

Education
4
American Gas Association

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…

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5
University of New Haven

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…

Education
6
Houston Museum of Natural Science

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…

Arts & Culture
7
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
8
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education
9
Houston Zoo Inc

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…

Animals
10
Mhs Physicians of Texas

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
11
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
12
Furman University

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Texas Gulf Coast & Louisiana Inc; 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

47 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. 47 of the 64 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
39/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PURDUE FOUNDATION: $3,520,000 · OtherPURDUE FOUNDATIONHOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL: $1,700,000 · OtherHOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITALPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $270,000 · Other+31 more: $579,650 · Other+31 moreINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $3,695,200 · HealthINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION+5 more: $209,000 · Health+5 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $1,395,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISE…+2 more: $28,800 · PhilanthropyUrban Harvest Inc: $156,000 · EnvironmentCOLUMBIA LAND TRUST: $140,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF ZENGER FARM: $80,000 · EnvironmentDESCHUTES RIVER ALLIANCE: $40,000 · EnvironmentDeschutes Land Trust: $15,000 · Environment+2 more: $6,000 · EnvironmentWellesley College: $75,000 · EducationTexas A&M Foundation: $60,000 · EducationThe Kinkaid School Inc: $45,000 · EducationYOUNG AUTHORS GREENHOUSE INC: $25,000 · EducationVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationPark City Education Foundation: $15,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND: $155,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $30,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $110,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $51,500 · Arts & CulturePark City Performances: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$6,069,650Health$3,904,200Philanthropy$1,423,800Environment$437,000Education$245,500Youth Development$186,000Arts & Culture$182,500

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 budgetINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $3,695,200 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $1,395,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Harvest Inc: $156,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND: $155,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCOLUMBIA LAND TRUST: $140,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $110,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $103,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF ZENGER FARM: $80,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetWellesley College: $75,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $63,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $51,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR OTHERS INC: $51,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCrime Stoppers of Houston Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetThe Kinkaid School Inc: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDESCHUTES RIVER ALLIANCE: $40,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $26,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG AUTHORS GREENHOUSE INC: $25,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPark City Performances: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $20,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $19,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPark City Education Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDeschutes Land Trust: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $13,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Junior League of Houston Inc: $9,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCitizens For Animal Protection Inc: $6,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST & LOUISIANA INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSALMONBERRY TRAIL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTanglewood Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetTOYS FOR TOTS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCLEAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Botanic Garden: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOVA CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTheatre Under the Stars Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLUB FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Deschutes Land Trust ↗
  • Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗

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.

Shell USA Company Fou…Greater Houston Commu…Strake FoundationAlbert & Ethel Herzst…The Oregon Community …Centerpoint Energy Fo…Vivian L Smith Founda…The Crain FoundationThe Elkins FoundationThe Powell FoundationHouston Endowment IncThe Brown Foundation …
Shell USA Company FoundationTX18.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Dudley Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dudley Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 64 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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