· Private foundation
Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k124 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k8 grants · $425k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LSU FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| LITERACY COUNCIL OF FORT BEND | $50,000 |
| SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON | $50,000 |
| HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATI | $50,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCATES OF FORT BEND | $50,000 |
| CUREPSP INC | $50,000 |
| PARKS YOUTH RANCH | $50,000 |
| THE PARKS YOUTH RANCH | $30,000 |
| LITERACY COUNCIL OF FT BEND COUNTY | $30,000 |
| HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON | $25,000 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| TEXAS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCATES OF FORT BEND | $25,000 |
| ACCESS HEALTH | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $623k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +22% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
156 repeat relationships — 124 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k 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
- STSOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON INC4× · 2020–2025 · $350k · revenue +34%
- TCTexas Children's Hospital6× · 2020–2025 · $275k · revenue +47%
- LFLSU FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $225k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- FMFRED & MABEL R PARKS YOUTH RANCHone grant, 2020 · $70k
- MHMemorial Hermann Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +30%
- CFCOPD FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $33k · revenue +52%
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.
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.
Summerhouse Houston's supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), their familites, and our community through employment, volunterism, and partnerships to foster a culture of belonging, choice and respect.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
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.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
To create communities of health through fresh food. Brighter Bites seeks to improve health outcomes among children and families in under-resourced communities by using data-driven, evidence-based strategies for providing fresh produce and…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Fostering family dba the riverside project is a 501(c)(3) public charity that on behalf of houston's children and their families, brings together organizations and passionate people working as one to help families heal and children thrive.
As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
ConnectAbility's mission is to empower those with life altering disabilities and their caregivers to reach their fullest potential.
To promote wellness, enriching the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
The mission of The Rise School of Houston is to provide the highest quality of early education services to children with developmental disabilities and those without disabilities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Hermann Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Reining Strength Therapeutic Horsemanship. 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 35 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
110 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. 110 of the 208 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc ↗
- Who funds PARKS YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CUREPSP INC ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Blessed Be Hope for Three Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds IMPACT A HERO INC ↗
- Who funds Cullinan Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
- Who funds The Gateway Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds Volunteer Interfaith Caregivers SW ↗
- Who funds FORT BEND HISTORY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Blue Cure Foundation ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council ↗
- Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds His Grace Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH CENTER OF WEST HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds ST DOMINIC VILLAGE ↗
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: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The George Foundation · Strake Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Brown Foundation Inc
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 Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation 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.