How much did HOBBY FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 84% of HOBBY FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

health johnjohn huberhouston attnattn processorredwood centrocentro esperanzapolicy priorities

2019

educationklruattnbaptistlbjhallchapel

2020

covidaustin pbspbs klru-tvmarcos youthfood bankhayskappa

2021

menilchapelartlyndon bainesbaines johnsonpreservationhill

2022

endowmentmeniljohnsonpreservationgreater houstoncitizensalumni

2023

further exemptvanguard endownment

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k10 grants · $31k
$10k–50k10 grants · $206k
$50k–250k3 grants · $175k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$9.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

MENIL FOUNDATION INC - THE MENIL COLLECTION$70,000
THE HOBBY CENTER FOUNDATION$55,000
THE CENTER FOR NEW AMERICAN MEDIA$50,000
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$45,000
UATX$33,333
BUFFALO BAYOU PARTNERSHIP$30,000
KAPPA ALPHA THETA FOUNDATION$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN DEVELOPMENT OFFICE$20,000
MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY$12,500
MAKE IT MOVEMENT INC$10,000
TELLURIDE FOUNDATION$10,000
THE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$10,000
HOPE CITY LIVE INC$10,000
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION$9,000
ST JOHN'S SCHOOL$6,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7% — the area typically sits at 11%. 17% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.8M · 97 repeat orgs$14M to everyone else

97 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 80 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

159

Total granted

$5.8M

$13M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+57%

Still filing today

49%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsHealthOther

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

UO
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION
5× · 2018–2023 · $354k · revenue +9%
MF
MENIL FOUNDATION INC
2× · 2017–2018 · $308k · revenue +24%
BC
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
6× · 2017–2024 · $222k · revenue +28%

Funded once

VC
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWNMENT PROGRAM
one grant, 2023 · $12M
UC
UNC CHAPEL HILL
one grant, 2023 · $100k
KK
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FRATERNITY INC
one grant, 2020 · $75k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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 McCombs School of Business

To provide support to The University of Texas McCombs School of Business.

Education

Houston Symphony Endowment

The Endowment's sole purpose is to support the operations of the Houston Symphony Society.

Arts & Culture

Houston Independent School District

The HISD Foundation supports Houston Independent School District's schools and programs.

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Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital

A faith-based organization whose mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves regardless of their ability to pay.

Health

Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital

A faith-based organization whose mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves regardless of their ability to pay.

Health

Glasstire

Glasstire is an online magazine for visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture

Houston Symphony Society

Orchestral performances, educational programs, and community activities.

Arts & Culture

Houston Museum of Decorative Arts

The mission of the houston museum of decorative arts is to preserve, enhance, present, and promote the decorative art collection of the late anna safley houston for public understanding, education, and enjoyment; to increase public…

Arts & Culture

Houston Geological Society Foundation

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The Heritage Society

The Heritage Society exhibits the history of Houston through historic buildings and artifacts.

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Houston MediaSource

Houston MediaSource provides public access cable television programming for the City of Houston.

Arts & Culture

John P McGovern Museum of Health &

To provide engaging, informal learning experiences to the general public via exhibits & programs.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Methodist Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is St John's School. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%2/125

the rest of the field

565/6,288

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.

05the grantee network

114 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

111/114

Grantees still filing

84/114

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$16,438,800Education$843,416Environment$824,000Arts & Culture$629,699Philanthropy$217,600Public Benefit$184,600Recreation & Sports$176,890

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.

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.

Greater Houston Community FoundationTX61.4× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Houston Endowment Inc · The Powell Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein · Shell USA Company Foundation · Strake Foundation · Memorial Hermann Health System · The William Stamps Farish Fund · 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 organisation HOBBY 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE CENTER FOR NEW AMERICAN MEDIA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~7 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 720860902 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE CENTER FOR NEW AMERICAN MEDIA, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 48% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Hobby Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hobby Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

HOBBY FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

114 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Hobby Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

HOBBY FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

114 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Hobby Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph