· Private foundation
Fant 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $650k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSTON CHILDREN'S CHARITY | $1,700,000 |
| UPBRING | $333,333 |
| SUNRISE HOMELESS NAVIGATION CENTER | $200,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER HOUSTON | $200,000 |
| THE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR OUTDOORS | $50,000 |
| SAM HOUSTON AREA COUNCIL | $50,000 |
| ROCK HOUSE BENEFITING OSF FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| THE LANDING | $10,000 |
| BUTLER INDIANA POLICE DEPARTMENT SHOP | $4,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $644k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HCHOUSTON'S CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC2× · 2023–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +35% · 31% of their budget
- UUPBRING2× · 2023–2024 · $687k
- SHSAM HOUSTON AREA COUNCIL2× · 2023–2024 · $85k
Funded once
- BCBaylor College of Medicineone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +17%
- TFTrees For Houstongraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +70%
- PFPOWER FOR PARKINSONSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +48%
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.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
To advance the Kingdom of God with specific focus on human health and well-being, through grants, research and initiatives in support of the mission of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas.
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
Mission: this organization is part of the methodist hospital, doing business as houston methodist hospital, whose mission is: to provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a…
To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH), to encourage broad-based public support of the healthcare system and its affiliated institutions, and to advance the medical objectives, including…
Improve air quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by supporting and enabling the greater houston area to increase ev adoption.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
To provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a spiritual environment of caring in association with internationally recognized teaching and research.
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
The mission of the Oklahoma Hospital Association is to promote the welfare of the public by representing its members and advocating on their behalf, providing services to assist its members in meeting the health care needs of their…
Texas palliative care operates to strengthen and further the goals and purpose of hospice of east texas, a texas non-profit corporation.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 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.
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 HOUSTON'S CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds THE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds Trees For Houston ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds POWER FOR PARKINSONS ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR OUTDOORS INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds Sojourn Landing DBA The Landing ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fant Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fant Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Outdoors Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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