· Private foundation
Horlock 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MISSION OF YAHWEH | $27,950 |
| COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY | $10,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| TEXAS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $10,000 |
| HOUSTON METHODIST FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC | $5,005 |
| EAST-WEST MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| AGAPE DEVELOPMENT MINISTRIES | $4,848 |
| HILL HOUSE MINISTRIES | $4,500 |
| BROOKWOOD COMMUNITY | $4,000 |
| HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN | $4,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $3,150 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR | $3,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +58% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 8 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; $24k 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
- MOMISSION OF YAHWEH INC8× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +44%
- HHHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +62%
- TMTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $44k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- HMHOUSTON METHODISTHOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITALone grant, 2021 · $15k
- SPST PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $10k
- TGTHE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue 0%
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.
Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.
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."
Children at heart ministries is a family of christian ministries that exists to honor god and build a better world by serving children and strengthening families.
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…
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…
See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…
Texas baptist children's home embraces children and families in need in order to empower and equip them for a promising future.
Christian pre-school from age 3-months to school-age, and school from
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Tiny Hope Ministries. 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 23 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 96 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 MISSION OF YAHWEH INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds The Kinkaid School Inc ↗
- Who funds Agape Development Ministries ↗
- Who funds Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds KAMUKAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SLEEP TIGHT KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds SpringSpirit Inc ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds HILL HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds JIMMY PAPPAS MEMORIAL SHOOT ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN SPEECH LABS INC ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
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 · Shell USA Company Foundation · Stoller Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Hildebrand Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Elkins Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · Strake Foundation · Better Business Bureau
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 Horlock 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.