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Greentree Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$587k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$167k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Arts & Culture$1.1MReligion$289kHealth$275kEducation$233kEnvironment$44kHuman Services$39kSocial Science$35kInternational$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k31 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $467k
$2,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER$166,900
ST MARTIN EPISCOPAL CHURCH$100,000
TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$100,000
ORANGE SHOW FOUNDATION$100,000
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF HOUSTON$10,000
HOUSTON BALLET$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$10,000
INPRINT$10,000
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON$9,500
WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY$8,833
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$7,500
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$5,000
HOUSTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$5,000
HOUSTON GRAND OPERA$5,000
GLENWOOD CEMETERY HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYS' TOWN: $3k → 12%CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $500 → 16%COVENANT HOUSE: $4k → 17%CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $250 → 16%COVENANT HOUSE: $2k → 17%CONVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $13k → 10%PATHWAYS FOR LITTLE FEET: $3k → 16%INDIA HOUSE: $1k → 16%PATHWAYS FOR LITTLE FEET: $3k → 16%FRIENDS OF MHMRA OF HARRIS COUNTY: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
NY
MA
PA
CO
NE
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 45 repeat orgs$223k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
31

Total granted

$1.9M
$195k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
0%

Still filing today

69%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentInternationalOther

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

  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $161k · revenue +177%
  • CA
    Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
    3× · 2021–2023 · $60k · revenue +119%
  • WM
    William Marsh Rice University
    3× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • JO
    JEFFERSON OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT
    one grant, 2023 · $65k
  • BI
    BAKER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY - RICE UNIVERSITY MS 40
    one grant, 2024 · $35k
  • HH
    HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +10%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science

The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…

Arts & Culture
2
Trees for Houston

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

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3
Houston Academy of Medicine

The mission of the Houston Academy of Medicine is to support the community service, education, scientific, and charitable programs for physicians, their patients, and the community at large in Harris County.

Education
4
Memorial Hermann Health System

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
5
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
6
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
7
The Methodist Hospital

To provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a spiritual environment of caring in association with internationally recognized teaching and research.

Health
8
Harris County Medical Society

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…

—
9
The Houston Audubon Society

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…

Environment
10
The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center

The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center holds a freestanding 37 bed inpatient facility in the Texas Medical Center that is operated and managed by Houston Hospice.

Human Services
11
Baylor Research Institute

To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
12
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Methodist Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%2%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr12%33%35–55yr10%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr19%33%20–35yr12%24%35–55yr10%41%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/63
the rest of the field
14%
7,039/49,512

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.

04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 87 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/61
Grantees still filing
37/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER — $324,144 · Arts & CultureASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTERThe Orange Show Foundation — $206,000 · Arts & CultureThe Orange Show FoundationMenil Foundation Inc — $165,536 · Arts & CultureMenil Foundation IncCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $160,850 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCContemporary Arts Museum Houston — $60,000 · Arts & CultureContemporary Arts Museum HoustonGLENWOOD CEMETERY HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $80,900 · Arts & Culture+7 moreST MARTINS EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $288,104 · OtherST MARTINS EPISCOPAL CHURCHJEFFERSON OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT — $65,000 · OtherJEFFERSON OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL A…ST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $57,500 · OtherST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL SCHOOLBAKER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY - RICE UNIVERSITY MS 40 — $35,000 · OtherHOUSTON BALLET — $33,000 · OtherINPRINT INC — $23,000 · Other+36 more — $165,393 · Other+36 moreTexas Children's Hospital — $150,000 · HealthTexas Child…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $20,000 · HealthST JUDE CHI…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $20,000 · HealthPLANNED PAR…+6 more — $20,500 · Health+6 moreWilliam Marsh Rice University — $50,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $25,000 · EducationJoy Development School — $10,000 · EducationTHE COLORADO COLLEGE — $5,000 · Education+4 more — $7,000 · EducationHouston Botanic Garden — $41,000 · EnvironmentBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc — $3,500 · EnvironmentGarden Club of Houston — $2,000 · Environment+2 more — $1,250 · EnvironmentHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $12,793 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE — $10,000 · Human ServicesPathways for Little Feet — $6,400 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS — $4,000 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $2,500 · Human Services+3 more — $3,250 · Human ServicesMercy Ships International — $20,500 · International+1 more — $100 · International
Arts & Culture$1,032,430Other$666,997Health$210,500Education$97,000Environment$47,750Human Services$38,943International$20,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER — $324,144 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetThe Orange Show Foundation — $206,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetMenil Foundation Inc — $165,536 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $160,850 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetContemporary Arts Museum Houston — $60,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Botanic Garden — $41,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGLENWOOD CEMETERY HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON — $34,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINPRINT INC — $23,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMercy Ships International — $20,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Symphony Society — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $12,793 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Grand Opera Association Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Hospice — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJoy Development School — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science — $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTIRR Foundation — $6,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPathways for Little Feet — $6,400 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Junior League of Houston Inc — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCamp For All Foundation — $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT — $4,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREMIND — $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNora's Gift Foundation Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBreakthrough Houston — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Arts Alliance — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGarden Club of Houston — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHope and Healing Center & Institute — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH — $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRATHAM USA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MARYS SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIA HOUSE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHermann Park Conservancy — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Houston Commu…The Brown Foundation …Houston Endowment IncShell USA Company Fou…Vivian L Smith Founda…The Elkins FoundationThe Powell FoundationAlbert & Ethel Herzst…Marek Family Foundati…J Squared Family Foun…The Susan Vaughan Fou…Hobby Family Foundati…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX44.4× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Houston Endowment Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · J Squared Family Foundation · The Susan Vaughan Foundation Inc · Hobby Family 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 Greentree Fund 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Greentree Fund?

Find your warmest path to Greentree Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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