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Edward J Hudson Jr Foundation at a glance

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Edward J Hudson Jr 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.

$250k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.5MEnvironment$743kReligion$510kEducation$75kAnimals$40kRecreation & Sports$30kPhilanthropy$3k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$45,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$885k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON$200,000
ST MARTIN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$45,000
RICE UNIVERSITY$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE PEREGRINE FUND: $30k → 8%THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $200k → 10%NORTH ATLANTIC SALMON FUND: $10k → 17%Artist Boat: $100k → 14%ST MARTIN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $160k → 16%Bonefish & Tarpon Trust: $5k → 15%Redwood Library & Athenaeum: $5k → 7%THE MOYO FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%THE PEREGRINE FUND: $25k → 8%Friends of Galveston Island: $3k → 14%ST MARTIN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $155k → 16%BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST: $25k → 15%The Peregrine Fund: $20k → 8%ST MARTIN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $120k → 16%THE KINKAID SCHOOL: $50k → 16%ST MARTIN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $45k → 16%HOUSTON PARKS BOARD: $30k → 16%ST MARTIN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $30k → 16%HOUSTON BOTANIC GARDEN: $125k → 16%HOUSTON BOTANIC GARDEN: $70k → 16%HOUSTON BOTANIC GARDEN: $50k → 16%HOUSTON BOTANIC GARDEN: $50k → 16%HOUSTON BOTANIC GARDEN: $50k → 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.
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 6 repeat orgs$948k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
11

Total granted

$1.9M
$948k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+87%

Still filing today

83%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
EnvironmentEducationAnimalsArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON
    3× · 2017–2025 · $935k · revenue +96%
  • HB
    Houston Botanic Garden
    5× · 2018–2022 · $345k · revenue +15%
  • TP
    THE PEREGRINE FUND INC
    3× · 2018–2023 · $75k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
    2× · 2019–2020 · $518k
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +109%
  • TA
    THE ARTIST BOAT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +132%
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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
The Houston Audubon Society

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…

Environment
3
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
4
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program Inc

Coastal bend bays & estuaries program is dedicated to protecting and restoring bays and estuaries of the texas coastal bend. coastal bend bays and estuaries remain a vital part of the environmental and economic landscape by preserving and…

Environment
5
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
6
Archbold Expeditions Inc

Archbold expeditions, inc.'s mission is to build and share the scientific knowledge needed to protect the life, lands, and waters of the heart of florida and beyond.

Unclassified
7
Texas State Aquarium Association

The texas state aquarium's mission is engaging people with animals, inspiring appreciation for our seas, and supporting wildlife conservation. its vision is to be a global leader in fostering support for the conservation of the gulf of…

Animals
8
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
—
9
Tennessee Aquarium

The mission of the Tennessee Aquarium is to connect people with nature and empower them to make informed decisions about water and wildlife.

Animals
10
The Nature Institute
—
11
Cook Museum of Natural Science
Arts & Culture
12
The Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trust for Public Land; the most unlike its peers is The Peregrine Fund Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $517,600 · OtherTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTSST MARTINS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $510,000 · OtherST MARTINS EPISCOPAL CHURCHTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC: $75,000 · OtherTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC+4 more: $20,500 · OtherTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $935,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTONHouston Botanic Garden: $345,000 · EnvironmentHouston Botanic GardenTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $200,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDTHE ARTIST BOAT INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentTHE ARTIST BOAT INC+1 more: $20,000 · EnvironmentThe Kinkaid School Inc: $50,000 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice University: $15,000 · EducationBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $30,000 · AnimalsNORTH ATLANTIC SALMON FUND: $10,000 · AnimalsHouston Parks Board: $30,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,123,100Arts & Culture$935,000Environment$665,000Education$65,000Animals$40,000Philanthropy$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $935,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHouston Botanic Garden: $345,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARTIST BOAT INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Kinkaid School Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Parks Board: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGALVESTON ISLAND NATURE TOURISM COUNCIL: $20,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH ATLANTIC SALMON FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE COMPANY OF THE REDWOOD LIBRARY AND ATHENAEUM: $5,000 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.

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.

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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 Edward J Hudson Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward J Hudson Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Edward J Hudson Jr Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Edward J Hudson Jr Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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