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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.

$128k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$117kHuman Services$108kHousing & Shelter$96kReligion$89kEducation$79kPublic Benefit$36kPhilanthropy$29kInternational$26kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $68k
$3,150
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MISSION OF YAHWEH$27,950
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY$10,250
YOUNG LIFE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
TEXAS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$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
ANTIOCH MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL$3,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $4k → 11%SLEEP TIGHT KIDS: $1k → 12%SLEEP TIGHT KIDS: $3k → 13%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $500 → 11%SLEEP TIGHT KIDS: $1k → 12%SLEEP TIGHT KIDS: $515 → 13%SLEEP TIGHT KIDS: $1k → 12%SLEEP TIGHT KIDS: $800 → 12%SLEEP TIGHT KIDS: $300 → 12%SLEEP TIGHT KIDS: $200 → 12%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $13k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $6k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $6k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $4k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $4k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $4k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 10%CORNERSTONE FAMILY MINISTRIES: $1k → 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

IL
MI
NV
PA
CA
CO
TN
NC
SC
OK
GA
TX
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$527k · 35 repeat orgs$130k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
50

Total granted

$527k
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+5%

Still filing today

60%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesReligionPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • MO
    MISSION OF YAHWEH INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +44%
  • HH
    HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +62%
  • TM
    THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $44k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • HM
    HOUSTON METHODISTHOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • SP
    ST PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • TG
    THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue 0%
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
Greater Austin Christian Foundation

Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.

Religion
2
Houston Christian University

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."

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3
Children At Heart Ministries Inc

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.

Human Services
4
Presbyterian School

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…

Education
5
Austin Trinity School

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…

Education
6
St John's School

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…

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7
Texas Baptist Children's Home Inc

Texas baptist children's home embraces children and families in need in order to empower and equip them for a promising future.

Human Services
8
The Greatest School in West Houston

Christian pre-school from age 3-months to school-age, and school from

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9
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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10
Healing Hands Ministries Inc

Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.

Health
11
The Woodlands Christian Academy

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…

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12
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 96 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
34/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MISSION OF YAHWEH INC: $107,000 · OtherMISSION OF YAHWEH INCSAINT JOHN VIANNEY CATHOLIC CHURCH: $36,670 · OtherSAINT JOHN VIANNEY CATHOLIC CHURCHGEORGE BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY: $26,435 · OtherGEORGE BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARYHouston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston: $16,610 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY: $15,025 · OtherHOUSTON METHODISTHOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL: $15,000 · OtherKAMUKAMA FOUNDATION: $12,400 · Other+58 more: $142,452 · Other+58 moreThe Kinkaid School Inc: $22,350 · EducationThe Kinkaid Scho…Agape Development Ministries: $20,048 · EducationAgape Developmen…YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS: $15,505 · EducationYELLOWSTONE ACAD…FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $9,350 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR F…THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION: $9,300 · EducationTHE GEORGE AND B…The Brookwood Community Inc: $8,000 · EducationThe Brookwood Co…HILL HOUSE MINISTRIES: $4,500 · Education+5 more: $9,070 · Education+5 moreTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $43,500 · HealthTHE METHODIST …Texas Children's Hospital: $32,500 · HealthTexas Children…JIMMY PAPPAS MEMORIAL SHOOT: $4,000 · HealthAUSTIN SPEECH LABS INC: $3,903 · Health+2 more: $2,250 · HealthHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $52,357 · Human ServicesHELPING HAN…SLEEP TIGHT KIDS INC: $8,005 · Human ServicesSLEEP TIGHT…THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $4,300 · Human ServicesTHE GLADNEY…+2 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesEast-West Ministries International: $11,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 · ReligionMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $4,800 · Religion+2 more: $1,000 · ReligionYOUNG LIFE: $15,205 · Youth DevelopmentSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $13,500 · Housing & ShelterGRACEWOOD INC: $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$371,592Education$98,123Health$86,153Human Services$66,662Religion$26,800Youth Development$15,205Housing & Shelter$14,500

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 budgetMISSION OF YAHWEH INC: $107,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $52,357 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $43,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $32,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kinkaid School Inc: $22,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAgape Development Ministries: $20,048 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHouston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston: $16,610 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetYELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS: $15,505 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $15,205 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY: $15,025 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKAMUKAMA FOUNDATION: $12,400 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $9,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION: $9,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSLEEP TIGHT KIDS INC: $8,005 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSpringSpirit Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $4,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $4,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJIMMY PAPPAS MEMORIAL SHOOT: $4,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAUSTIN SPEECH LABS INC: $3,903 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR CENTRAL TEXAS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOLLEGE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES - HOUSTON: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBriargrove Elementary Parent-Teacher Organization: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Food & Wine Alliance fka Austin F&W Alliance: $1,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAUSTIN EXPLORE INC: $1,070 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREWILD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Park Conservancy Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACEWOOD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN AT HEART FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTINY HOPE MINISTRIES: $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCORNERSTONE FAMILY MINISTRIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION EMANUEL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHANCE FOR HOPE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLA FIESTA DE LAS SEIS BANDERAS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope and Healing Center & Institute: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetI LIVE HERE I GIVE HERE: $361 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $250 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 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 ↗

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…Shell USA Company Fou…Stoller FoundationChristian Community F…Hildebrand FoundationBaxter Trust Co Priva…Albert & Ethel Herzst…Austin Community Foun…The Elkins FoundationMarek Family Foundati…Strake FoundationBetter Business Bureau
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX26.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Horlock Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Horlock Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 96 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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