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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.

$700k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$502kHealth$422kArts & Culture$209kHousing & Shelter$203kReligion$190kCommunity Improvement$109kAnimals$107kEnvironment$93kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $470k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STANFORD UNIVERSITY-HOOVER INSTITUTION$50,000
ST FRANCIS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION OFFICE OF ADVANCEMENT$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
SAN JACINTO MONUMENT AND BATTLEFIELD ASSOCIATION$25,000
NEW HOPE HOUSING$25,000
HOME FIRST ATTN AMELLA CAPSUTO$25,000
HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY$25,000
MILE HIGH BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE$12,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 8%FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $5k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $5k → 12%BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $10k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OR
WY
OH
CA
CO
VA
KS
TN
SC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 47 repeat orgs$330k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
33

Total granted

$1.8M
$195k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+27%

Still filing today

62%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationAnimalsHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NH
    New Hope Housing Inc
    7× · 2018–2025 · $155k · revenue +10%
  • HC
    Hill Country Montessori School Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $104k · revenue +10%
  • ZS
    ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO
    4× · 2018–2024 · $83k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • NM
    NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ATTN JENNIFER SCHILLIG
    one grant, 2024 · $35k
  • YO
    YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY PATTY RALLY CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • TJ
    The Junior League of Houston Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +16%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
2
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

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,…

Health
3
Mhs Physicians of Texas

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,…

Health
4
John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
6
Harris County Medical Society

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…

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7
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
8
The Houston Audubon Society

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…

Environment
9
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

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…

Education
10
Hermann Park Conservancy

Hermann Park Conservancy is a citizens organization dedicated to the stewardship and improvement of Hermann Park - today and for generations to come.

Environment
11
Harvey Mudd College

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…

Education
12
Memorial Hermann Health System

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,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Methodist Hospital Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 86 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
36/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST FRANCIS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $150,000 · OtherST FRANCIS EPISCOPAL CHURCHSTANFORD UNIVERSITY-HOOVER INSTITUTION: $100,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERSITY-HOOVER INSTITUTIONUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION OFFICE OF ADVANCEMENT: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION OFFICE OF ADVANCEMENTST FRANCIS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $94,500 · OtherST FRANCIS EPISCOPAL SCHOOLSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ATTN DONATION DEPT: $83,500 · OtherSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ATTN DONATION DEPTUNIVERSITY OF DAYTON OFFICE OF ANNUAL GIVING: $61,200 · OtherHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY: $50,000 · OtherGIRLS ATHLETIC LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $49,000 · Other+49 more: $609,000 · Other+49 moreNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $100,000 · HealthNATIONAL JEW…THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $58,750 · HealthTHE METHODIS…THE MENNINGER CLINIC: $40,000 · HealthTHE MENNINGE…MILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE: $25,000 · HealthMILE HIGH CO…SCRIPPS HEALTH: $9,500 · HealthHill Country Montessori School Inc: $103,500 · EducationHill Coun…UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $33,500 · EducationUNIVERSIT…KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $17,000 · EducationKENT DENV…University of Dayton: $10,500 · EducationUniversit…University of Miami: $9,000 · Education+3 more: $13,000 · Education+3 moreNew Hope Housing Inc: $155,000 · Housing & ShelterZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $83,000 · AnimalsPark Horse Project: $40,000 · AnimalsHOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $8,300 · Animals+3 more: $3,750 · AnimalsSan Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association: $59,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Symphony Society: $12,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureBOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesWARREN VILLAGE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesFOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $3,000 · Human ServicesIntegrated Family Community Services: $2,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,500 · Human Services
Other$1,297,200Health$233,250Education$186,500Housing & Shelter$155,000Animals$135,050Arts & Culture$76,000Human Services$36,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew Hope Housing Inc: $155,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetHill Country Montessori School Inc: $103,500 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $83,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSan Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association: $59,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $58,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPark Horse Project: $40,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE MENNINGER CLINIC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR JONES HALL: $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $33,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Junior League of Houston Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST: $22,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetREMIND: $20,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN WELCOME CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC: $19,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrees For Houston: $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Symphony Society: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Dayton: $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWARREN VILLAGE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $8,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHERRY HILLS LAND PRESERVE INC: $4,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIntegrated Family Community Services: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope and Healing Center & Institute: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE FOR HEROES TEXAS: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHouston Zoo Inc: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITYTEAM MINISTRIES: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS MOTORIZED TRAILS COALITION: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 Park Horse Project ↗
  • Who funds THE MENNINGER CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR JONES HALL ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Men of Distinction of Greater Houston ↗
  • Who funds MILE HIGH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE ↗
  • Who funds The Junior League of Houston Inc ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds REMIND ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN WELCOME CENTER ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Trees For Houston ↗

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Houston Commu…The Elkins FoundationMD Anderson FoundationThe Brown Foundation …Vivian L Smith Founda…John P McGovern Found…The Sarofim FoundationShell USA Company Fou…Strake FoundationHouston Endowment IncHarry S & Isabel C Ca…The Powell Foundation
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX27.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hood-Barrow Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hood-Barrow Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Willamette University: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 86 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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