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Felvis Foundation at a glance

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Felvis 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.

$69k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
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 2024.

Environment$161kEducation$114kArts & Culture$86kHealth$36kReligion$13kRecreation & Sports$11kAnimals$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $19k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST AGNES ACADEMY$50,000
ST AGNES ACADEMY$7,000
ST MICHAELS CATHOLIC SCHOOL$5,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC$4,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$3,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%RAISEUP FAMILIES: $1k → 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$479k · 15 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
16

Total granted

$479k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+10%

Still filing today

53%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsRecreation & SportsInternationalMembership BenefitOther
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

  • TF
    Trees For Houston
    8× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +133%
  • LA
    Lawndale Art & Performance Center
    6× · 2017–2022 · $53k · revenue +75%
  • BF
    BLACK FRET DBA SONIC GUILD
    5× · 2017–2022 · $11k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • HP
    Houston Parks Boardgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +25%
  • BB
    Buffalo Bayou Partnership Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +185%
  • BP
    Bo's Place
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +9%
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
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
The Houston Parks Board Foundation

The Houston Parks Board Foundation provides the Houston Parks Board with financial assistance to support operations and park projects.

Environment
4
Houston Arts Alliance

See Schedule OHouston Arts Alliance (HAA) is a local arts and culture organization whose principal work is implementing the City of Houston's vision, values, and goals for its arts grantmaking and civic art investments. HAA conducts work…

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
Rebuilding Together Houston

Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…

Housing & Shelter
7
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
8
Bexar Land Trust Inc dba Green Spaces Alliance of South Texas

The mission of Bexar Land Trust (Green Spaces) is to sustain the natural environment and enhance urban spaces through land conservation, community engagement, and education.

Environment
9
Houston Area Parkinson Society

The mission of the Houston Area Parkinson Society is to use a whole-human approach to community building, which reduces the fear and isolation associated with a Parkinson's diagnosis.

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10
Houston Bar Foundation

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.

Crime & Legal
11
Trinity Park Conservancy

Trinity Park Conservancy champions the transformation of the Trinity River to become the heart of Dallas. With the community, the Conservancy will design public spaces that unite us, enrich people's lives through access to nature, create…

Community Improvement
12
Hermann Park Conservancy

Hermann Park Conservancy is a citizens organization dedicated to the stewardship and improvement of Hermann Park - today and for generations to come.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scenic Houston Inc; the most unlike its peers is Eddie Burke Sr Memorial Foundation. 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

24 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. 24 of the 31 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/24
Grantees still filing
15/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Trees For Houston: $149,500 · OtherTrees For HoustonST AGNES ACADEMY: $67,000 · OtherST AGNES ACADEMYTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $54,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINST MICHAELS CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $47,500 · OtherST MICHAELS CATHOLIC SCHOOLST MICHAEL CATHOLIC CHURCH: $33,000 · OtherST MICHAEL CATHOLIC CHURCHLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC: $32,000 · OtherLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC+7 more: $15,050 · OtherLawndale Art & Performance Center: $52,500 · Arts & CultureLawndale Art & P…BLACK FRET DBA SONIC GUILD: $10,700 · Arts & CultureBLACK FRET DBA S…Open Dance Project Inc: $3,700 · Arts & CultureBo's Place: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $4,500 · Arts & Culture+3 moreHouston Botanic Garden: $9,250 · EnvironmentBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc: $4,800 · EnvironmentKEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentSCENIC HOUSTON INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentHouston Parks Board: $9,400 · PhilanthropyBella's Buddies Inc: $4,000 · AnimalsHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $3,000 · AnimalsHouston Zoo Inc: $1,100 · AnimalsTHE SIMS FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 · HealthAUSTIN TEXAS ROLLERGIRLS INC: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsEDDIE BURKE SR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $1,550 · Recreation & Sports
Other$398,050Arts & Culture$74,400Environment$17,050Philanthropy$9,400Animals$8,100Health$5,500Recreation & Sports$3,550

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 budgetTrees For Houston: $149,500 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetLawndale Art & Performance Center: $52,500 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetBLACK FRET DBA SONIC GUILD: $10,700 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHouston Parks Board: $9,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Botanic Garden: $9,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRETREET: $6,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE SIMS FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc: $4,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBella's Buddies Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOpen Dance Project Inc: $3,700 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetKIDS IN A NEW GROOVE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBo's Place: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN TEXAS ROLLERGIRLS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetBIG MEDIUM: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHealth Alliance for Austin Musicians: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Chance to Rock: $1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHouston Zoo Inc: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGALVESTON ARTS CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRAISEUP FAMILIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCENIC HOUSTON INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Jesuits International Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Greater Houston Commu…The Brown Foundation …Austin Community Foun…Strake FoundationHouston Endowment IncShell USA Company Fou…Better Business BureauI Live Here I Give He…Hobby Family Foundati…John P McGovern Found…Harris & Eliza Kempne…Albert & Ethel Herzst…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX20.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Strake Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Better Business Bureau · I Live Here I Give Here · Hobby Family Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation

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 Felvis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Felvis 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Felvis Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Felvis 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 31 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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