· Public charity
Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc
The mission of the foundation for southeast texas shall be to make a positive difference in the quality of life in the area by encouraging philanthropic gifts and by assisting donors in achieving their charitable goals through the professional management and considered and caring distribution of such gifts
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 40 grants below total $4,101,827 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,379,495 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $277,668 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $480k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $194k
- $250k+4 grants · $3.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $1,000,000 |
| UT HEALTH HOUSTON | $1,000,000 |
| CHRISTUS ST ELIZABETH HOSPITAL | $1,000,000 |
| HOW CENTER | $356,543 |
| GIFT OF LIFE | $74,100 |
| UNITED WAY OF BEAUMONT | $70,041 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $50,050 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $34,361 |
| FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS | $33,726 |
| DIOCESE OF BEAUMONT | $32,250 |
| MONSIGNOR KELLY HIGH SCHOOL | $31,850 |
| I HAVE A DREAM | $30,000 |
| ART MUSEUM OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS | $23,441 |
| LAMAR UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $21,620 |
| ST ANNE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $21,283 |
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 (FY17–24, $701k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% 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.
45 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 14 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, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M 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
- TCTexas Children's Hospital2× · 2023–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +0%
- T1THE 100 CLUB OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS2× · 2017–2018 · $500k · revenue +14% · 72% of their budget
- JRJulie Rogers Gift of Life Program5× · 2018–2024 · $172k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- MHMemorial Hermann Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +30%
- TBTRINITY BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $129k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $53k
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 provide efficient, effective, and professional prehospital emergency care and transportation to those living in the unincorporated areas of Taylor County, Texas and as requested by municipalities in Taylor County
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
To educate, unite and focus our community's resources in order to efficiently address the most critical needs of Brazoria County
Provide support for southeast texas hospice inc, a non-profit organization providing hospice services for the southeast texas area
Child Advocacy
The Texas Nonprofit Hospice Alliance (TNPHA) is a group of nonprofit hospices dedicated to sharing best practices and providing quality care for individuals with life-limiting illnesses.
Hospice of east texas foundation operates for the benefit of hospice of east texas, a texas non-profit corporation.
South Texas Rural Health Services, Inc. provides charitable health services, including the recruitment of health care personnel to the rural service area, and primarily serves the low income population.
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
To provide community, life-long learning, and meaningful work for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
To continuously improve the lives of South Texans by providing high quality health care, education, housing and economic opportunities to reduce poverty through services and partnerships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Beaumont Botanical Gardens Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
76 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. 76 of the 117 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.
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- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BEAUMONT & NORTH JEFFERSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE 100 CLUB OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds PORT ARTHUR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOW Center ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Lamar University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Southeast Texas ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST TEXAS ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Art Museum of Southeast Texas ↗
- Who funds Orange County Disaster Rebuild ↗
- Who funds NEHEMIAH'S VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Jefferson County Long Term Recovery Group Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Msgr Kelly Catholic High School Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Mission Northeast Inc ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - THREE RIVERS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HARDIN COUNTY STRONG ↗
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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: Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation · Young Mens Business League of Beaumont · United Way of Beaumont & North Jefferson County · Greater Houston Community Foundation · United Way of Mid & South Jefferson Co · He and Kate Dishman Charitable Trust · B a and E W Steinhagen Benevolent Trust · H H and Edna Houseman Charitable Tr · Penland Foundation · Mechia Foundation · Christus Health · Entergy Charitable 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 Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc 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.