· Private foundation
Helen Freeborn Kerr Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $17,824 |
| SAN ANTONIO PARKS FOUNDATION | $17,824 |
| SOMERSET UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $17,824 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SASAN ANTONIO PARKS FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $153k · revenue +99%
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2019 · $21k · revenue +213%- UOUniversity of the Incarnate Word2× · 2020–2023 · $14k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- WOWIPE OUT KIDS' CANCER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +26%
- STSOUTH TEXAS BLOOD & TISSUE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -12%
- ACAUSTIN COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +12%
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.
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.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
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As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
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).
The organization shall undertake, sponsor, and administer basic and/or clinical research in children's health issues.children's medical center research institute at ut southwestern (cri) is a nonprofit research institute built on the…
To support the university of texas system
The texas a&m foundation builds a brighter future for texas a&m university, one relationship at a time, by uniting generosity and vision to raise support and manage endowed gifts.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Texas children's hospital, headquartered in houston, texas, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 11 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SAN ANTONIO PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Gencure ↗
- Who funds University of the Incarnate Word ↗
- Who funds TEAMCONNOR CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WIPE OUT KIDS' CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAS BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COLLEGE ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Helen Freeborn Kerr Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen Freeborn Kerr Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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