· Private foundation
Hood-Barrow 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 · $31k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $470k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION OFFICE OF ADVANCEMENT | $50,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY-HOOVER INSTITUTION | $50,000 |
| ST FRANCIS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH | $50,000 |
| HILL COUNTRY MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $41,500 |
| HILL COUNTRY MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR JONES HALL | $35,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ATTN DONATION DEPT | $33,500 |
| ST FRANCIS EPISCOPAL CHURCH- NORRIS TN | $30,000 |
| MEN OF DISTINCTION | $30,000 |
| HOME FIRST ATTN AMELLA CAPSUTO | $25,000 |
| SAN JACINTO MONUMENT AND BATTLEFIELD ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| NEW HOPE HOUSING | $25,000 |
| MILE HIGH BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE | $12,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% 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 +28% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 24 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k 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
- NHNew Hope Housing Inc7× · 2018–2025 · $155k · revenue +10%
- HCHill Country Montessori School Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $104k · revenue +10%
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO4× · 2018–2024 · $83k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- NMNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ATTN JENNIFER SCHILLIGone grant, 2024 · $35k
- TJThe Junior League of Houston Incone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +16%
- YOYMCA OF SILICON VALLEY PATTY RALLY CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICERone grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
To advance the conservation of birds and their habitats in the Greater Houston Gulf Coast region by acquiring and maintaining critical habitat as bird sanctuaries, providing education programs and nature experiences, and advocating policy…
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…
Hermann Park Conservancy is a citizens organization dedicated to the stewardship and improvement of Hermann Park - today and for generations to come.
HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Methodist Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States. 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 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 86 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 New Hope Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds Hill Country Montessori School Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE MENNINGER CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Park Horse Project ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR JONES HALL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Men of Distinction of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds The Junior League of Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds REMIND ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN WELCOME CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Trees For 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · The Sarofim Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Strake Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Powell 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 Hood-Barrow 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.
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Willamette University — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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.