· Private foundation
Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund Inc
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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k113 grants · $220k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $712k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+1 grant · $352k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH | $351,614 |
| VISION GALVESTON | $147,000 |
| TEEN HEALTH CENTER INC | $142,939 |
| FAMILY SERVICE CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY | $141,500 |
| ST VINCENT'S HOUSE | $115,000 |
| GALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION | $112,437 |
| SERJOBS | $100,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOUSTON | $95,000 |
| NIA CULTURAL CENTER | $72,518 |
| THE GRAND 1894 OPERA HOUSE | $66,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY OF GALVESTON | $66,000 |
| CASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY | $60,000 |
| GALVESTON ARTS CENTER | $56,000 |
| SUNSHINE CENTER INC | $55,000 |
| GULF COAST BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $52,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
298 repeat relationships — 118 still active in FY2024, 180 since wound down; 48 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $234k 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
- VGVision Galveston5× · 2020–2024 · $597k · revenue +3%
- FSFamily Service Center of Galveston County Texas7× · 2018–2024 · $497k · revenue +27%
- NCNIA CULTURAL CENTER7× · 2018–2024 · $381k · revenue +328% · 27% of their budget
Funded once
- USURBAN STRATEGIES INCone grant, 2020 · $75k
- SWSAMARITAN WOMEN AT THE WELLgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue +71%
- TETEXAS ENERGY POVERTY RESEARCH INSTITUTEone grant, 2023 · $29k
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 Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sea Star Base Galveston. 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 34 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
333 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 333 of the 650 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 GALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Vision Galveston ↗
- Who funds TEEN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Family Service Center of Galveston County Texas ↗
- Who funds NIA CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds 1894 INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENTS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ARTIST BOAT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GALVESTON INC WHITE ↗
- Who funds MOODY EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMP-U-DOPT INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds Galveston Bay Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SEEDING GALVESTON ↗
- Who funds GALVESTONS OWN FARMERS MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE & CRISIS CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Smart Family Literacy Inc ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Iconoclast Artists ↗
- Who funds ADVOCACY CENTER FOR CHILDREN OF GALVESTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Galveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project ↗
- Who funds ALCOHOLDRUG ABUSE WOMENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Galveston College Foundation ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON ISLAND NATURE TOURISM COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ISLAND ETC ↗
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: Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galveston · Permanent Endowment Fund of Moody Methodist Church · Dr Leon Bromberg Charitable Trust · The Moody Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Mary Moody Northen Endowment · United Way of Galveston Inc White · John P McGovern Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Strake Foundation · Greater Houston Community 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 Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund Inc 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.
- Servicenet Inc — 82% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- Jerusalem Peacebuilders Inc — 5% of income from government
- Trustees of the Forbes Library — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.