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Hine Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TEXAS HILL COUNTRY | $100,000 |
| EARN-A-BIKE | $100,000 |
| TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ST PHILIP'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| OPTIONS FOR LIFE | $20,000 |
| THE GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER | $10,000 |
| TANDEM TRIKES 4 MS | $5,000 |
| MISION DE CANDELILLA | $5,000 |
| MERCURY ONE | $5,000 |
| CORPUS CHRISTI POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| ONESTAR FOUNDATION REBUILD TEXAS FUND | $5,000 |
| BLUEBONNET HOME SCHOLARS COLLABORATIVE | $5,000 |
| HONOR VETERANS NOW DBA MEALS FOR VETS | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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
- TPTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $287k · revenue +110%
- EAEarn A Bike Org4× · 2021–2025 · $160k · revenue +13% · 67% of their budget
- CPCrisis Pregnancy Center of New Braunfels7× · 2019–2025 · $68k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +163%
- EAEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +23%
- FOFriends of Santa Rosa Foundationone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +6%
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.
Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…
We are the University of St. Thomas, the Catholic University in the heart of Houston. We are committed to the Catholic intellectual tradition and the dialogue between faith and reason. By pursuing excellence in teaching, scholarship and…
East texas baptist university (etbu) was founded in 1912 as a fully accredited institution of higher education. affiliated with the baptist general convention of texas, etbu educates students by integrating biblical faith and learning to…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…
Howard payne university is a christ-centered academic community dedicated to excellence by developing and equipping the whole person for intellectual inquiry, personal and professional integrity, and service to god and humanity.
The mission of hardin-simmons university is to be a community dedicated to providing excellence in education enlightened by christian faith and values.
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."
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…
With the bible as our foundation, and Classical Christian Education as our model, El Paso Christian School seeks to prepare students in wisdom, virtue, and service to glofify God.
Partner with families to provide students a christ-centered education while fostering a life of faith and service. the school desires to associate with like-minded teachers, administrators, staff, parents, and students to communicate the…
The mission of baylor university is to educate men and women for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and christian commitment within a caring community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mision De Candelilla. 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 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 32 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 TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Earn A Bike Org ↗
- Who funds Crisis Pregnancy Center of New Braunfels ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds HONOR VETERANS NOW ↗
- Who funds EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF GOD INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Mercury One Inc ↗
- Who funds EACH ONE TEACH ONE INC ↗
- Who funds Mision De Candelilla ↗
- Who funds Friends of Santa Rosa Foundation ↗
- Who funds Create Healthy Management ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BLUEBONNET HOME SCHOLARS COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds No One Left Behind ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI POLICE ATHELTIC LEAG ↗
- Who funds New Berlin Volunteer Fire Depa ↗
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.
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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 Hine Family 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.
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% 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.
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