· Private foundation
Hildebrand 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k81 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k20 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+6 grants · $10M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Greater Houston Community Foundation | $6,530,000 |
| University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business | $1,250,000 |
| University of Texas - Shift | $875,500 |
| National World War II Museum | $600,000 |
| Episcopal High School Endowment | $500,000 |
| Hermann Park Conservancy | $500,000 |
| Star of Hope Mission | $225,000 |
| YWAM San DiegoBaja | $137,498 |
| Houston Police Foundation | $118,500 |
| Family Legacy | $106,696 |
| River Oaks Baptist School | $105,000 |
| National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation | $100,000 |
| St Dominic Village | $100,000 |
| University of St Thomas | $100,000 |
| WorkFaith Connection | $100,000 |
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, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% 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 +21% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
118 repeat relationships — 80 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 39 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.5M 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
- TNTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC3× · 2020–2022 · $1.8M · revenue +52%
- UOUniversity of St Thomas4× · 2020–2024 · $755k · revenue +69%
- GCGLENWOOD CEMETERY INC3× · 2020–2022 · $600k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- HPHouston Parks Boardgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +54%
- TMTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +51%
PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXASgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $175k · revenue +31%
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.
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.
Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…
Christian coaching, counseling, assessment and consulting services to the communities of Tarrant County, Texas.
Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.
Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
El Buen Samaritano an outreach ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas serving the Latino community of Central Texas is committed to recognizing the dignity of all by ensuring access to health care education and essential needs that…
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.
Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
Christian pre-school from age 3-months to school-age, and school from
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tomball Emergency Assistance Ministries and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. 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 30 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
121 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. 121 of the 226 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 GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Houston Parks Board ↗
- Who funds Hermann Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD CEMETERY INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST DOMINIC VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds Family Legacy Missions International ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds THE WORKFAITH CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds Camp Allen Camp & Conference Center ↗
- Who funds Christian Community Service Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Eyes On Me Inc ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds LifeHouse of Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FORGE FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds YOUTH WITH A MISSION - SAN DIEGOBAJA ↗
- Who funds PRO-VISION INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds THE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON ↗
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: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Strake Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Shell USA Company Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · The Medallion Foundation Inc · Sterling-Turner 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 Hildebrand 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.