· Private foundation
Gulf Coast Medical Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $493k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $347k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHSIDE EDUCATION CENTER | $100,000 |
| OAKBEND MEDICAL CENTER | $71,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOUSTON | $65,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EL CAMPO & PALACIOS | $60,000 |
| HESED HOUSE | $50,000 |
| BOLING DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT ASSO | $40,000 |
| BLESSING CUP STOREHOUSE | $30,000 |
| EL CAMPO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| NORTHSIDE EDUCATION CENTER | $25,000 |
| JUST DO IT NOW | $25,000 |
| JUST DO IT NOW | $25,000 |
| MATAGORDA COUNTY CRISIS CENTER | $25,000 |
| THE ARC OF WHARTON | $25,000 |
| JUST DO IT NOW | $25,000 |
| JUST DO IT NOW | $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 (FY17–24, $490k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 68% 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.
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 +17% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 9 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $281k 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
- JDJust Do It Now Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $582k · revenue +18%
- BABoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $320k · revenue +53%
- MEMATAGORDA EPISCOPAL HEALTH OUTREACH PROGRAM CORPORATION4× · 2018–2021 · $237k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- WCWHARTON COUNTY JUNIOR COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $100k
- TMTHE MONTGOMERY HOME INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -45%
- SCSANFORD COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2022 · $39k
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.
To transform community wellness through literacy, health, spiritual and wellness programs
To increase the number of healthy families in our community by providing high quality, comprehensive health services.
To advocate for and provide services to children and families when there are allegations of abuse and neglect throughout the investigation,prosecution, treatment, and prevention of child abuse, and to reduce the trauma to childrent with…
The mission of the Good Samaritan Center is to provide a safe, Christ- Centered environment that gives our patients quality, coordinated and affordable healthcare.
To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
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.
The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.
Health care services are provided to low to moderate income families who are residents of South Texas. Services are provided at a low cost are based on abiilty to pay base. Approximately 18,022 patients were served in the fiscal year.
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.
The mission of the Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry and Support Center is to serve Bastrop County residents going through periods of transition by providing emergency food assistance, education and support.
Operate a primary health care clinic for the care and treatment of sick, injured, afflicted, infirm, disabled or destitute.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Palacios Community Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is Share Corporation. 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 28 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 88 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 Just Do It Now Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds MATAGORDA EPISCOPAL HEALTH OUTREACH PROGRAM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HESED HOUSE OF WHARTON INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EL CAMPO ↗
- Who funds Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc ↗
- Who funds Blessed Be Hope for Three Inc ↗
- Who funds Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More ↗
- Who funds PALACIOS COMMUNITY HUB ↗
- Who funds Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROSE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ELDER CITIZENS ↗
- Who funds FORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST CASA ↗
- Who funds PALACIOS COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds WHARTON RECOVERY TEAM ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WHARTON INC ↗
- Who funds The Institute for Civility in Government ↗
- Who funds THE MONTGOMERY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds MATAGORDA COUNTY WOMEN'S CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOLING DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT AS ↗
- Who funds BLESSING CUP STOREHOUSE INC ↗
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: The George Foundation · Mary Louise Dobson Foundation · The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation · Fort Bend Junior Service League · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation · Episcopal Health Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Fluor Cares
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 Gulf Coast Medical 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.
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