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Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
147
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$2.9MEducation$1.7MHuman Services$1.4MCrime & Legal$1.1MArts & Culture$894kHousing & Shelter$540kYouth Development$420kFood & Nutrition$405kOther$0
02FY2025 · 147 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k124 grants · $1.7M
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $425k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LSU FOUNDATION$75,000
CHILD ADVOCATES OF FORT BEND$50,000
HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATI$50,000
LITERACY COUNCIL OF FORT BEND$50,000
PARKS YOUTH RANCH$50,000
SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON$50,000
CUREPSP INC$50,000
DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE$50,000
THE PARKS YOUTH RANCH$30,000
LITERACY COUNCIL OF FT BEND COUNTY$30,000
FORT BEND MEALS ON WHEELS$25,000
GALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SUGAR LAND$25,000
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON$25,000
CHILD ADVOCATES OF FORT BEND$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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $10k → 14%HEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 15%BETHESDA LUTHERAN COMMUNITIES: $10k → 8%GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $10k → 14%HEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 15%GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $10k → 14%HEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 15%SOLEANA STABLES: $12k → 10%GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $10k → 14%HEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 15%SOLEANA STABLES: $10k → 10%HEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 15%SOLEANA STABLES: $10k → 10%TEXAS NETWORK OF YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 10%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CNETER: $10k → 16%FORT BEND WOMENS CENTER: $10k → 8%FORT BEND WOMENS CENTER: $10k → 8%FORT BEND WOMENS CENTER: $10k → 8%FORT BEND WOMENS CENTER: $10k → 8%TEEN & FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 16%STEEL MAGNOLIA MOMS: $10k → 16%FORT BEND WOMENS CENTER: $10k → 8%FORT BEND WOMENS CENTER: $10k → 8%TEEN & FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 16%PATHWAYS FOR LITTLE FEET: $10k → 16%VOLUNTEER INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS: $20k → 16%VOLUNTEER INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS: $20k → 16%VOLUNTEER INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS: $10k → 16%VOLUNTEER INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS: $10k → 16%VOLUNTEER INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS: $10k → 16%VOLUNTEER INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS: $10k → 16%VOLUNTEER INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS SW: $10k → 16%THE SANCTUARY FOSTER CARE SERVICE: $10k → 16%THE SANCTUARY FOSTER CARE SERVICE: $10k → 16%HIS GRACE FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%HIS GRACE FOUNDATION: $20k → 16%HIS GRACE FOUNDATION: $20k → 16%LIFE HOUSTON: $10k → 16%BRIDGE YEAR: $10k → 16%HIS GRACE FOUNDATION: $7k → 16%THE CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%THE CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%CENTER FOR PURSUIT: $10k → 16%THE CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%THE CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%THE CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%REACH UNLIMITED: $15k → 16%REACH UNLIMITED: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
WI
NY
OR
IN
PA
CA
MO
MD
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 156 repeat orgs$688k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

156
37

Total granted

$10M
$518k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+14%

Still filing today

54%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • ST
    SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $350k · revenue +34%
  • TC
    Texas Children's Hospital
    6× · 2020–2025 · $275k · revenue +69%
  • LF
    LSU FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $225k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • FM
    FRED & MABEL R PARKS YOUTH RANCH
    one grant, 2020 · $70k
  • MH
    Memorial Hermann Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +30%
  • CF
    COPD FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $33k · revenue +52%
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
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
2
Summerhouse Houston

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.

Human Services
3
Trees for Houston

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

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4
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
5
Houston Botanic Garden

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

Environment
6
Brighter Bites Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
7
Baylor Scott & White Holdings

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
8
Fostering Family

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.

Community Improvement
9
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

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.

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10
Connectability

ConnectAbility's mission is to empower those with life altering disabilities and their caregivers to reach their fullest potential.

Human Services
11
The Arc of Harris County

To promote wellness, enriching the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.

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12
The Brenda & John H Duncan Rise School of Houston

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Hermann Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

110 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. 110 of the 208 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
109/110
Grantees still filing
70/110
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACCESS HEALTH: $210,000 · OtherLITERACY COUNCIL OF FORT BEND: $205,000 · Other+129 more: $5,052,500 · Other+129 moreDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · HealthDIABETES RESEAR…Texas Children's Hospital: $275,000 · HealthTexas Children'…CUREPSP INC: $220,000 · HealthCUREPSP INCBlessed Be Hope for Three Inc: $155,000 · HealthBlessed Be Hope…Blue Cure Foundation: $80,000 · HealthBlue Cure Found…OUTREACH CENTER OF WEST HOUSTON INC: $70,000 · HealthEASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC: $60,000 · HealthCHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare: $60,000 · HealthFORT BEND REGIONAL COUNCIL ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE: $60,000 · HealthLUKE 181 FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Health+7 more: $145,000 · Health+7 moreSOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON INC: $350,000 · EducationSOUTH TEXAS CO…LSU FOUNDATION: $225,000 · EducationLSU FOUNDATIONUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $150,000 · EducationUniversity of …The Gateway Academy Inc: $105,000 · EducationThe Gateway Ac…LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERS…The Brookwood Community Inc: $75,000 · EducationThe Brookwood …THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH: $60,000 · EducationTHE BRIARWOOD SCHOOL: $50,000 · Education+10 more: $215,000 · Education+10 moreFt Bend County Child Advocates Inc: $745,000 · Civil RightsVolunteer Interfaith Caregivers SW: $90,000 · Human ServicesHis Grace Foundation: $72,000 · Human ServicesHEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF MINISTRY: $60,000 · Human ServicesFORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER INC SOS/SHELTER-OUTREACH-SOLUTIONS: $60,000 · Human ServicesPURSUIT FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesGALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $45,000 · Human ServicesHomemade Hope for Homeless Children: $40,000 · Human ServicesChristian Community Service Center Inc: $39,500 · Human ServicesLOCAL INFANT FORMULA FOR EMERGENCIES: $35,000 · Human ServicesSOLEANA STABLES: $32,000 · Human ServicesREACH UNLIMITED INC: $25,000 · Human Services+12 more: $173,500 · Human ServicesHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON: $216,875 · Arts & CultureGALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $195,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Museum of Natural Science: $130,000 · Arts & CultureFORT BEND HISTORY ASSOCIATION: $80,000 · Arts & CultureSUGAR LAND HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Arts & CultureELDERHEART INC: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePARKS YOUTH RANCH INC: $400,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$5,467,500Health$1,475,000Education$1,365,000Civil Rights$745,000Human Services$722,000Arts & Culture$691,875Housing & Shelter$410,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetFt Bend County Child Advocates Inc: $745,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetPARKS YOUTH RANCH INC: $400,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON INC: $350,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $275,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLSU FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCUREPSP INC: $220,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON: $216,875 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetGALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $195,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetBlessed Be Hope for Three Inc: $155,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT A HERO INC: $145,000 over 6y, 9.0% of budgetCullinan Park Conservancy: $145,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science: $130,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Gateway Academy Inc: $105,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetVolunteer Interfaith Caregivers SW: $90,000 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetFORT BEND HISTORY ASSOCIATION: $80,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetBlue Cure Foundation: $80,000 over 6y, 42% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of San Jacinto Council: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHis Grace Foundation: $72,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOUTREACH CENTER OF WEST HOUSTON INC: $70,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetST DOMINIC VILLAGE: $65,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCANCARE INC: $65,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetThe Periwinkle Foundation: $62,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetMISSION OF YAHWEH INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF MINISTRY: $60,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH: $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetEASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER INC SOS/SHELTER-OUTREACH-SOLUTIONS: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare: $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFAITH IN PRACTICE: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S FUND INC: $60,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetFORT BEND REGIONAL COUNCIL ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE: $60,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFort Bend Boys Choir of Texas Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetTHE ROSE: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDRENS TRANSPLANT INITIATIVE: $57,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BRIARWOOD SCHOOL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE: $50,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPURSUIT FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetLUKE 181 FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF FORT BEND COUNTY: $45,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $45,000 over 5y, 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 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 ↗

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.

Albert & Ethel Herzst…Harry S & Isabel C Ca…The George FoundationStrake FoundationGreater Houston Commu…The Henderson-Wessend…Shell USA Company Fou…The Elkins FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Baxter Trust Co Priva…The William Stamps Fa…The Brown Foundation …
Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable FoundationTX84.7× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 208 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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