· Private foundation
Fleming Endowment
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k4 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $224k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER - THE FLEMING CENTER | $100,000 |
| ST JOHN VIANNEY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $49,150 |
| TREES FOR HOUSTON | $25,000 |
| SAM HOUSTON AREA COUNCIL BSA | $25,000 |
| HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| DAYBREAK FOUNDATION (MAGNIFICANT HOUSES) | $25,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS | $25,000 |
| MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| MISSION OF YAHWEH | $15,000 |
| HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON | $10,000 |
| EMERGE FELLOWSHIP | $2,500 |
| TEXAS APPLESEED | $2,500 |
| UT FOUNDATION (CCEC) | $2,000 |
| TEXAS BAR ASSOCIATION | $200 |
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 (FY19–23, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% 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.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k 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
- TUThe University of Texas Law School Foundation5× · 2017–2022 · $437k · revenue +146%
- NANATIONAL ABILITY CENTER3× · 2019–2022 · $85k · revenue +50%
- MOMISSION OF YAHWEH INC4× · 2018–2023 · $55k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER-HOUSTONone grant, 2019 · $100k
- SJStrake Jesuit College Prepone grant, 2018 · $60k
- ISINTERNATIONAL SUPPORT NETWORK OF ALIENATED FAMILIESone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
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.
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…
The mission of the Harris County Hospital District Foundation is to enhance the broad healthcare mission of the Harris Health System by soliciting and raising funds for programs and increasing the community's awareness of the Harris Health…
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
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 mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.
To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
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.
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 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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ignite and the most unlike its peers is Peace of Mind Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 41 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 The University of Texas Law School Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF YAHWEH INC ↗
- Who funds Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds Trees For Houston ↗
- Who funds Houston Public Media Foundation ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds PEACE OF MIND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Appleseed ↗
- Who funds CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Magnificat Houses Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST DOMINIC VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds IGNITE ↗
- Who funds EMERGE Fellowship ↗
- Who funds John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science ↗
- Who funds Park City Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE BRIARWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · MD Anderson Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Mechia Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Baker Hughes Foundation · Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation · Hildebrand Foundation
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 Fleming Endowment 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.
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.