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Florence and William K McGee Jr Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Florence and William K McGee Jr Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$3.5MHuman Services$1.5MEducation$1.3MFood & Nutrition$540kYouth Development$540kHousing & Shelter$440kReligion$300kArts & Culture$240kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $395k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $670k
  • $250k+2 grants · $550k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$300,000
TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$250,000
MEMORIAL HERMANN FOUNDATION$120,000
THE FORGE FOR FAMILIES INC$100,000
HOPE AND HEALING CENTER & INSTITUTE$100,000
ANNUNCIATION ORTHODOX SCHOOL$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM$100,000
ST JOHNS SCHOOL$50,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER HOUSTON$50,000
DEPELCHIN CHILDRENS CENTER$50,000
SMALL STEPS NURTURING CENTER$30,000
HOUSTON FOOD BANK$25,000
NEW HOPE HOUSING INC$25,000
IMMUNIZATION PARTNERSHIP$25,000
THE ROSE$25,000
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 (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%HOPE RISING: $15k → 14%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $10k → 16%CLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER: $5k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE: $150k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE: $100k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE: $30k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE: $30k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $30k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $25k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE: $25k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 16%TODAY'S HARBOR FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $50k → 16%BAKERRIPLEY: $20k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $250k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $100k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $50k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDRENS CENTER: $50k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $50k → 16%KIDS MEALS: $200k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $125k → 16%KIDS MEALS: $45k → 16%KIDS MEALS: $25k → 16%KIDS MEALS: $25k → 16%KIDS MEALS: $10k → 16%KIDS MEALS: $10k → 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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.1M · 34 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
16

Total granted

$7.1M
$930k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+1%

Still filing today

79%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $690k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TC
    Texas Children's Hospital
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +71%
  • HA
    Hope and Healing Center & Institute
    6× · 2019–2024 · $795k · revenue +22%
  • DC
    DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER
    6× · 2019–2024 · $550k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • TK
    The Kinkaid School Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -19%
  • Camp For All Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -3%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
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
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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2
Harris County Medical Society

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…

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3
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
4
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
5
Breakthrough Houston

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.

Education
6
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

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,…

Health
7
Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County

The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.

Human Services
8
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
9
The Women's Resource of Greater Houston

See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…

Philanthropy
10
Houston's Amazing Place Inc

Amazing Place empowers families facing the challenges of dementia and Alzheimer's and advances brain health for all. The Organization serves adults with mild cognitive impairment and mild to moderate dementia, caregiving families and…

Human Services
11
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston's mission is to inspire and enable all youth, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Youth Development
12
Children's Population Health

Children's population health strives to improve the health of children across the continuum of care.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston Community Health Centers Inc; the most unlike its peers is William Marsh Rice University. 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

45 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. 45 of the 58 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
31/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Texas Children's Hospital: $1,550,000 · HealthTexas Children's HospitalTHE IMMUNIZATION PARTNERSHIP: $235,000 · HealthTHE IMMUNIZATION PARTNERSHIPMemorial Hermann Foundation: $220,000 · HealthMemorial Hermann FoundationTHE MENNINGER CLINIC: $150,000 · HealthTHE MENNINGER CLINIC+4 more: $130,000 · Health+4 moreRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $540,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEEPISCOPAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE SOUTHWEST: $300,000 · OtherEPISCOPAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF…CASA DE ESPERANZA: $182,500 · OtherCASA DE ESPERANZATHE ROSE: $162,500 · OtherTHE ROSEThe Houston Food Bank: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $100,000 · OtherANNUNCIATION ORTHODOX SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherCamp Allen Camp & Conference Center: $100,000 · OtherAMAZING PLACE: $100,000 · OtherUnited Way of Greater Houston: $130,000 · OtherTHE FORGE FOR FAMILIES: $100,000 · Other+16 more: $551,500 · Other+16 moreDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $550,000 · Human ServicesDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'…KIDS' MEALS INC: $440,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INCCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $400,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE TEXA…Christian Community Service Center Inc: $60,000 · Human Services+5 more: $75,000 · Human ServicesVanderbilt University: $300,000 · EducationVanderbilt …The Kinkaid School Inc: $250,000 · EducationThe Kinkaid…Small Steps Nurturing Center: $215,000 · EducationSmall Steps…Good Reason Houston Inc: $50,000 · EducationGood Reason…+2 more: $35,000 · EducationHope and Healing Center & Institute: $795,000 · ReligionHope and H…PRO-VISION INC: $40,000 · ReligionGirl Scouts of San Jacinto Council: $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentCamp For All Foundation: $200,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBo's Place: $140,000 · Arts & CultureJohn P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science: $50,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$2,285,000Other$2,566,500Human Services$1,525,000Education$850,000Religion$835,000Youth Development$505,000Arts & Culture$190,000

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 budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $1,550,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHope and Healing Center & Institute: $795,000 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $550,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $440,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $400,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetVanderbilt University: $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of San Jacinto Council: $300,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetThe Kinkaid School Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE IMMUNIZATION PARTNERSHIP: $235,000 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetMemorial Hermann Foundation: $220,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSmall Steps Nurturing Center: $215,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetCamp For All Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ROSE: $162,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MENNINGER CLINIC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBo's Place: $140,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $130,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Allen Camp & Conference Center: $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE FORGE FOR FAMILIES: $100,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetREMIND: $84,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetHOUSTON ACHIEVEMENT PLACE: $65,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetThe W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation: $65,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetChristian Community Service Center Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGood Reason Houston Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSt John's School: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJohn P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science: $50,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSharpen Recovery: $50,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCENTER FOR THE MISSING: $45,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetPRO-VISION INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMENDCENTER FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBakerRipley: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hope Housing Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInstitute for Spirituality and Health at the Texas Medical Center: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHope Rising dba Hope Rising Ministries: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHouston Area Parkinson Society: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCrime Stoppers of Houston Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTODAYS HARBOR FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDISCOVER FITNESS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 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.

  • Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds Hope and Healing Center & Institute ↗
  • Who funds DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council ↗
  • Who funds The Kinkaid School Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE IMMUNIZATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds Memorial Hermann Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Small Steps Nurturing Center ↗
  • Who funds Camp For All Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE ROSE ↗
  • Who funds THE MENNINGER CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Bo's Place ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
  • Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds Camp Allen Camp & Conference Center ↗
  • Who funds THE FORGE FOR FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds REMIND ↗
  • Who funds HOUSTON ACHIEVEMENT PLACE ↗
  • Who funds The W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Christian Community Service Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Good Reason Houston Inc ↗
  • Who funds St John's School ↗
  • Who funds John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science ↗
  • Who funds Sharpen Recovery ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR THE MISSING ↗
  • Who funds PRO-VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds MENDCENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BakerRipley ↗

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…Strake FoundationAlbert & Ethel Herzst…MD Anderson FoundationVivian L Smith Founda…The Elkins FoundationHarry S & Isabel C Ca…John P McGovern Found…Marek Family Foundati…The Brown Foundation …The William Stamps Fa…The Medallion Foundat…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX44.4× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · John P McGovern Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Medallion Foundation Inc

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 Florence and William K McGee Jr Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Florence and William K McGee Jr Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 58 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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