Texas · Public charity
Houston Health Foundation
HOUSTON HEALTH FOUNDATION (hhf) has the mission of creating private/public partnerships for sustainable health and wellness initiatives and programs in our communities.
- $388k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $109k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $99,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $99,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.1M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Houston Health Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $276k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $109k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $429k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $1.0M | 85% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $322k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $454k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $311k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $116k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $255k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Houston- Health Department | $932,208 | 5 | n/a |
| William Marsh Rice University | $230,204 | 1 | 0% |
| City of Houston | $136,824 | 2 | n/a |
| Center for Recovery and Wellness Resources | $130,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Twelve 11 Partners Inc | $99,449 | 2 | n/a |
| National Urban Fellows Inc | $99,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Prevention Institute | $82,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $57,980 | 1 | 0% |
| Soteria Innovative Solutions | $56,884 | 1 | 19% |
| Hope to Empower | $55,000 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Houston- Health Department | $932,208 | 5 | n/a |
| William Marsh Rice University | $230,204 | 1 | 0% |
| City of Houston | $136,824 | 2 | n/a |
| Center for Recovery and Wellness Resources | $130,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Twelve 11 Partners Inc | $99,449 | 2 | n/a |
| National Urban Fellows Inc | $99,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Prevention Institute | $82,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $57,980 | 1 | 0% |
| Soteria Innovative Solutions | $56,884 | 1 | 19% |
| Hope to Empower | $55,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Bread of Life Prison Ministries | $50,004 | 1 | n/a |
| Girls on the Run Greater Houston | $50,004 | 1 | 10% |
| Melanin Minds | $50,002 | 2 | n/a |
| 100 Black Men of Metropolitan Houston | $50,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Ccm Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sister 2 Sistah | $50,000 | 1 | 74% |
| Houston Revision | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Nat'L Assoc of Christian Churches | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Magpies and Peacocks Inc | $48,600 | 1 | 16% |
| Community Family Centers Inc | $48,357 | 2 | 1% |
| Greenhouse International Church | $48,356 | 1 | n/a |
| Sunnyside Community Redevelopment | $47,781 | 2 | 17% |
| Penitent's Grace Inc | $45,559 | 1 | 40% |
| Back to Eden Fellow Program | $45,555 | 1 | 23% |
| The Salvation Army | $43,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Real Youth Outreach Foundation | $41,115 | 1 | n/a |
| Agape Love House | $41,115 | 1 | n/a |
| United Against Human Trafficking | $35,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Collective Action for Youth | $33,331 | 2 | 2% |
| Alliance of Community Assistance Ministries Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Houston Independent School District Foundation | $29,468 | 2 | 1% |
| Sojourn Landing DBA The Landing | $28,094 | 2 | 3% |
| Houston Independent Sch Dist | $15,996 | 1 | n/a |
| Alliance for Multicultural Community Services | $15,400 | 1 | 0% |
| Black Service Chamber | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rupani Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bethel Baptist Church | $6,630 | 1 | n/a |
| Hope for Families Inc | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Houston Area Women's Center | $5,250 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($91k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Houston Health Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · United Way of Greater Houston · The Houston Fund for Social Justice and Economic Equity · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · The Junior League of Houston Inc · Houston Texans Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Houston Food Bank · Baker Hughes Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Houston Health Foundation
- How much does Houston Health Foundation give?
- Houston Health Foundation reported 2 itemized grants totaling $109,000, out of $387,935 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Houston Health Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (65%), Education (12%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Houston Health Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: City of Houston- Health Department ($932k), William Marsh Rice University ($230k), City of Houston ($137k).
- Does Houston Health Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Houston Health Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Houston Endowment Inc, United Way of Greater Houston.
- Where is Houston Health Foundation based?
- Houston Health Foundation is based in TX.
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