· Private foundation
Garver Black Hilyard Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $385k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $797k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Buffalo Bayou Partnership | $435,000 |
| University of Kentucky | $405,000 |
| Houston Botanic Garden | $359,350 |
| Samaritans Purse | $180,000 |
| Texas A&M Foundation | $124,000 |
| Keep America Beautiful | $100,000 |
| Gracewood Church Children at Heart Foundation | $90,000 |
| Texas Conservative Coalition Research Inst | $52,640 |
| Bayou Preservation Assoc | $50,000 |
| Houston Food Bank | $50,000 |
| Keep Texas Beautiful | $50,000 |
| Texas A&M Foundation | $50,000 |
| Container Recycling Institute | $50,000 |
| American Legislative Exchange Council | $38,500 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital Foundation | $30,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
54 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $620k 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
- HBHouston Botanic Garden5× · 2020–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +90%
- BBBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +35%
- HPHouston Parks Board5× · 2020–2024 · $900k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- TCTaking Care of Texasgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $120k · revenue +108%
- HAHouston Area Research Councilone grant, 2020 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $100k
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 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…
To advance the conservation of birds and their habitats in the Greater Houston Gulf Coast region by acquiring and maintaining critical habitat as bird sanctuaries, providing education programs and nature experiences, and advocating policy…
The Houston Parks Board Foundation provides the Houston Parks Board with financial assistance to support operations and park projects.
Trinity Park Conservancy champions the transformation of the Trinity River to become the heart of Dallas. With the community, the Conservancy will design public spaces that unite us, enrich people's lives through access to nature, create…
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater 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…
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…
To completely restore Houston Freedmen's Town as a heritage district that provides America with its only Freedmen's Town.
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.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
The mission of the Hill Country Alliance is to bring together a diverse coalition of partners to preserve the open spaces, starry night skies, clean and abundant waters, and unique character of the Texas Hill Country.
The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 76 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.
- Who funds Houston Botanic Garden ↗
- Who funds Buffalo Bayou Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Parks Board ↗
- Who funds Texans for Clean Water Inc ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds New Hope Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEEP TEXAS BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds BAYOU PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Conservative Coalition Research Institute ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CONTAINER RECYCLING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds Taking Care of Texas ↗
- Who funds Galveston Bay Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds United States Ski Team Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL STEWARDSHIP ACTION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M University 12th Man Foundation ↗
- Who funds SPARK ↗
- Who funds BakerRipley ↗
- Who funds Open Door Mission ↗
- Who funds Hermann Park Conservancy ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Strake Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Shell USA Company Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · John P McGovern Foundation · Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation · The Tapeats Fund
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 Garver Black Hilyard Family 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.