· Private foundation
Earl W & Hazel C Pierson Foundation
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SIRE | $15,000 |
| B2B MINISTRY | $15,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ARC OF BELL COUNTY ARC OF BELL COUNTY | $10,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF GALVESTON | $10,000 |
| STILL CREEK RANCH | $10,000 |
| REACH UNLIMITED INC | $10,000 |
| VITALIVING | $10,000 |
| HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY | $10,000 |
| EIGHT DAYS OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| GRACE LAKE MINISTRIES | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ELIZABETH LUTHERAN CHURCH-COMMUNITY KITCHEN | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $178k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Earl W & Hazel C Pierson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RUREACH UNLIMITED INC9× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +9%
- GIGRACEWOOD INC7× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +55%
- SISIRE INC7× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- TCTHE CENTERone grant, 2017 · $25k
- UOURBAN OUTREACH INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +16%
- SHSEARCH - HOUSE OF TINY TREASURERSone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center holds a freestanding 37 bed inpatient facility in the Texas Medical Center that is operated and managed by Houston Hospice.
Our mission is to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. We support the health and well-being of seriously ill or injured children receiving treatment in the…
Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
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.
The mission of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Houston/ Galveston, Inc. (RMHCGHG) is to create, find and support programs that directly benefit children primarily in the areas of health and education.
Our mission is to support low-income Texans efforts to achieve the American dream of a decent, affordable home in a quality neighborhood. We believe that Texas critical low-income housing and community development needs can best be solved…
Summerhouse Houston's supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), their familites, and our community through employment, volunterism, and partnerships to foster a culture of belonging, choice and respect.
Hospice of san angelo, inc. (hospice or organization) provides an expert approach to care for those living with a limiting illness in the comfort of their own home and designated nursing homes throughout the twelve counties in the west…
To provide lodging and support services to families with critically ill or injured children.
To provide a safe, caring, and temporary home away from home for the families of children receiving essential medical services in san antonio, texas.
To provide quality care to children and adults with developmental disabilities in a safe, loving home environment where they are treated with respect, compassion, and dignity and provided the means, support, and encouragement to reach…
Keeping children near the care they need so families can get better together.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 33 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 REACH UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds GRACEWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice Brazos Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds SIRE INC ↗
- Who funds Grace Lake Ministries ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF GALVESTON ↗
- Who funds VITA LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds EIGHT DAYS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Hospice ↗
- Who funds House of Amos ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Parks Board ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Baker Hughes Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Earl W & Hazel C Pierson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Earl W & Hazel C Pierson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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