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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

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
48
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$150k
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$5.4MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.9MPhilanthropy$919kReligion$871kHuman Services$781kEducation$430kArts & Culture$397kYouth Development$164kOther$0
02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 48 grants below total $1,064,750, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,699,216 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $634,466 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $126k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $490k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $449k
$12,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UT HEALTH HOUSTON$150,000
HERMANN MEMORIAL$150,000
WEST END LITTLE LEAGUE$75,000
UNITED WAY OF BEAUMONT$73,541
EVERLASTING CHANGES$49,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$34,361
SALVATION ARMY BEAUMONT$26,000
MONSIGNOR KELLY HIGH SCHOOL$25,650
CHILD DEVELOPMENT$25,000
ART MUSEUM OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS$23,949
SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE$20,000
SOUTHEAST TEXAS ARTS COUNCIL$20,000
MORE THAN CONQUERORS$20,000
ST ANNE CATHOLIC CHURCH$19,433
LAMAR UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$19,219
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $724k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BLUE SKY THERAPEUTIC: $10k → 8%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $20k → 9%NEHEMIAH'S VISION: $50k → 14%NEHEMIAH'S VISION: $45k → 14%MISSION NORTHEAST SOCIAL SERVICE AG: $25k → 9%MISSION NORTHEAST SOCIAL SERVICE AG: $25k → 9%FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS: $36k → 19%ORANGE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC: $25k → 14%FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS: $14k → 19%SOUTHEAST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $11k → 19%FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS: $7k → 19%SOUTHEAST TEXAS HOSPICE INC: $6k → 14%SOUTHEAST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $5k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $41k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $31k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $20k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $18k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $17k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $14k → 19%NUTRITION AND SERVICES FOR SENIORS: $10k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $10k → 19%CAHTOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST TEX: $9k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $8k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $8k → 19%NUTRITION AND SERVICES FOR SENIORS: $6k → 19%NUTRITION AND SERVICES FOR SENIORS: $6k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $5k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $5k → 19%RISE CENTER: $25k → 19%GARTH HOUSE: $21k → 19%SOME OTHER PLACE: $8k → 19%SOME OTHER PLACE: $8k → 19%SOME OTHER PLACE: $8k → 19%SOME OTHER PLACE: $6k → 19%UNITED BOARD OF MISSIONS: $104k → 19%UNITED BOARD OF MISSIONS: $27k → 19%SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER: $20k → 19%UNITED BOARD OF MISSIONS: $10k → 19%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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.2M · 48 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

48 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
68

Total granted

$9.2M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+11%

Still filing today

69%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $303k 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +16%
  • MH
    Memorial Hermann Foundation
    2× · 2023–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +30%
  • T1
    THE 100 CLUB OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS
    2× · 2017–2018 · $500k · revenue +14% · 72% of their budget

Funded once

  • CH
    CHRISTUS HEALTH SOUTHEAST TEXAS CHRISTUS ST ELIZABETH HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M
  • HC
    HOW Center
    one grant, 2024 · $357k · revenue 0% · 32% of their budget
  • TB
    TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $129k
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
Raise Texas

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…

Human Services
2
South Taylor Emergency Medical Serv

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

—
3
Central Texas Children's Home

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.

Human Services
4
Casa of South Texas Inc

Child Advocacy

Human Services
5
United Way of Brazoria County

To educate, unite and focus our community's resources in order to efficiently address the most critical needs of Brazoria County

Philanthropy
6
Southeast Texas Hospice Foundation

Provide support for southeast texas hospice inc, a non-profit organization providing hospice services for the southeast texas area

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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
Texas Non-Profit Hospice Alliance

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.

Human Services
9
Trees for Houston

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

—
10
Hospice of South Texas Inc

Hospice care of terminally ill patients

—
11
Community Action Corporation of South Texas

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.

Human Services
12
Hospice of East Texas Foundation

Hospice of east texas foundation operates for the benefit of hospice of east texas, a texas non-profit corporation.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

87 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 87 of the 137 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/87
Grantees still filing
49/87
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM: $1,150,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEMCHRISTUS HEALTH SOUTHEAST TEXAS CHRISTUS ST ELIZABETH HOSPITAL: $1,000,000 · OtherCHRISTUS HEALTH SOUTHEAST TEXAS CHRISTUS ST ELIZAB…THE 100 CLUB OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS: $500,000 · OtherTHE 100 CLUB OF SOUTHEAST TEXASHOW Center: $356,543 · OtherHOW CenterFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $317,523 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH+84 more: $2,143,233 · Other+84 moreTexas Children's Hospital: $2,000,250 · HealthTexas Children's HospitalMemorial Hermann Foundation: $1,150,000 · HealthMemorial Hermann FoundationJulie Rogers Gift of Life Program: $189,856 · HealthJulie Rogers Gift of Life Progra…+8 more: $179,350 · HealthUNITED WAY OF BEAUMONT & NORTH JEFFERSON COUNTY: $655,739 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC: $268,224 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATIO…UNITED WAY OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHEAST TEXAS EMERGENCY RELIEF FD: $38,000 · PhilanthropyPORT ARTHUR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $403,254 · EducationLamar University Foundation Inc: $284,845 · EducationMsgr Kelly Catholic High School Foundation Inc: $76,809 · EducationBEN ROGERS - LUB - I HAVE A DREAM: $30,000 · EducationCOLLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Education+3 more: $47,932 · EducationCatholic Charities of Southeast Texas: $184,790 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $141,000 · Human ServicesNEHEMIAH'S VISION INC: $95,000 · Human ServicesSoutheast Texas Food Bank Inc: $79,959 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC: $57,077 · Human ServicesMission Northeast Inc: $50,300 · Human ServicesSome Other Place: $30,667 · Human Services+8 more: $148,707 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST TEXAS ARTS COUNCIL INC: $144,500 · Arts & CultureArt Museum of Southeast Texas: $137,111 · Arts & CultureMauriceville Heritage Association: $41,225 · Arts & CultureBeaumont Community Players Inc dba Southeast Texas Stages: $21,637 · Arts & CultureIce House Museum & Cultural Center Inc: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $17,161 · Arts & CultureOrange County Disaster Rebuild: $112,500 · Public Safety & DisasterJefferson County Long Term Recovery Group Inc: $71,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$5,467,299Health$3,519,456Philanthropy$1,011,963Education$872,840Human Services$787,500Arts & Culture$381,634Public Safety & Disaster$183,500

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 budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $2,000,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Hermann Foundation: $1,150,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BEAUMONT & NORTH JEFFERSON COUNTY: $655,739 over 9y, 6.9% of budgetTHE 100 CLUB OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS: $500,000 over 2y, 72% of budgetPORT ARTHUR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $403,254 over 2y, 63% of budgetHOW Center: $356,543 over 1y, 32% of budgetLamar University Foundation Inc: $284,845 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC: $268,224 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetJulie Rogers Gift of Life Program: $189,856 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetCatholic Charities of Southeast Texas: $184,790 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetTRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH FOUNDATION INC: $154,485 over 8y, 12% of budgetSOUTHEAST TEXAS ARTS COUNCIL INC: $144,500 over 7y, 11% of budgetCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $141,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetArt Museum of Southeast Texas: $137,111 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetOrange County Disaster Rebuild: $112,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetNEHEMIAH'S VISION INC: $95,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetSoutheast Texas Food Bank Inc: $79,959 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMsgr Kelly Catholic High School Foundation Inc: $76,809 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetWEST END LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $75,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY: $73,970 over 2y, 10% of budgetJefferson County Long Term Recovery Group Inc: $71,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC: $57,077 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMission Northeast Inc: $50,300 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - THREE RIVERS COUNCIL: $50,183 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $50,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetHARDIN COUNTY STRONG: $43,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetUnited Christian Care Center of Vidor Texas Inc: $42,600 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetMauriceville Heritage Association: $41,225 over 2y, 31% of budgetStable-Spirit: $38,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetSOUTHEAST TEXAS EMERGENCY RELIEF FD: $38,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetHope Center for Crisis Pregnancy dba Hope Womens Resource Clinic: $34,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetEMBRACING FREEDOM MINISTRY: $33,015 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSome Other Place: $30,667 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBEN ROGERS - LUB - I HAVE A DREAM: $30,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCOLLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetChild Development Center of Natrona County: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRISE: $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetORANGE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNUTRITION AND SERVICES FOR SENIORS: $22,645 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBeaumont Community Players Inc dba Southeast Texas Stages: $21,637 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetIEA - INSPIRE ENCOURAGE ACHIEVE: $21,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetGarth House Mickey Mehaffy Childrens Advocacy Program Inc: $20,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCG Jung Educational Center of Houston Texas Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCrisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetIce House Museum & Cultural Center Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetSamaritan Counseling Center of Southeast Texas: $20,000 over 1y, 2.7% 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 Memorial Hermann Foundation ↗
  • 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 Lamar University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Charities of Southeast Texas ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEAST TEXAS ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
  • 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 Msgr Kelly Catholic High School Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds WEST END LITTLE LEAGUE 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 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 ↗

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.

Mamie McFaddin Ward H…Young Mens Business L…United Way of Beaumon…Greater Houston Commu…United Way of Mid & S…He and Kate Dishman C…B a and E W Steinhage…H H and Edna Houseman…Penland FoundationMechia FoundationChristus HealthEntergy Charitable Fo…
Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage FoundationTX40.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 137 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 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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