· Private foundation
Edith Fbondi Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GALVESTON BAY FOUNDATION | $20,474 |
| MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $7,716 |
| CANCARE | $6,300 |
| RICE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $4,464 |
| NORTHSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ATLANTA | $4,200 |
| BELLAIRE LITTLE LEAGUE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| HALO HOUSE FOUNDATION | $2,575 |
| TEMPLE EMANUEL OF MARYLAND | $2,060 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| HOUSTON CONGREGATION FOR REFORM JUDISM | $1,628 |
| ITALIAN CULTURE & COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,594 |
| SACRED GEM FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| OUR REPUBLICAN LEGACY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +27% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 19 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- GBGalveston Bay Foundation Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $71k · revenue +119%
- HHHalo House Foundation3× · 2023–2025 · $19k · revenue +136%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH3× · 2021–2023 · $19k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH (NOW KNOWN AS TEXAS HEARING INSTITUTE)one grant, 2020 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $5k
Hermann Park Conservancyone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -24%
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.
To advance the conservation of birds and their habitats in the Greater Houston Gulf Coast region by acquiring and maintaining critical habitat as bird sanctuaries, providing education programs and nature experiences, and advocating policy…
Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…
The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
The Houston Parks Board mission is to expand, improve, and protect parks and greenspace in the Houston region.
The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…
The Houston Parks Board Foundation provides the Houston Parks Board with financial assistance to support operations and park projects.
Houston MediaSource aspires to be the community media center for the City of Houston. HMS provides public access to media platforms that promote citizen engagement, protect the right to free expression, and provide opportunities to advance…
To completely restore Houston Freedmen's Town as a heritage district that provides America with its only Freedmen's Town.
As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Houston Bar Foundation supports programs that help provide legal representation to the indigent, promote community understanding of our legal system, and foster the administration of justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston Ballet Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Usher Syndrome Society Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% 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 19% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 92 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 Galveston Bay Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Halo House Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH ↗
- Who funds Houston Ballet Foundation ↗
- Who funds Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds CANCARE INC ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds Camp For All Foundation ↗
- Who funds Blessed Be Hope for Three Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds Hermann Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Evelyn's Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds Usher Syndrome Society Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds SommFoundation ↗
- Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
- Who funds BELLAIRE POLICE & FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Houston Jewish Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good
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 Edith Fbondi 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.
- B&o Railroad Museum Inc — 7% 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.