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Houston Jewish Community Foundation

The mission of the Houston Jewish Community Foundation is to reflect the collective charitable hearts of our donors by advising on, receiving, administering, distributing and efficiently serving as the stewards of funds that are designated for the present and future benefit of qualified charitable organizations and promote the practice…

$31M
Granted FY2024still arriving
248
Grants FY2024still arriving
30
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$35MReligion$24MEducation$17MHuman Services$16MHealth$12MInternational$7.1MArts & Culture$6.6MCivil Rights$3.0MOther$0
02FY2024 · 248 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 248 grants below total $23,695,872 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $31,100,662 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,404,790 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k58 grants · $407k
  • $10k–50k132 grants · $2.5M
  • $50k–250k44 grants · $4.3M
  • $250k+14 grants · $17M
$15,000
Median grant
30
States reached
$261M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Houston Jewish Family Foundation$5,000,000
Jewish Federation of Greater Houston$4,533,096
Emery-Weiner Center for Jewish Education$1,345,177
Joan & Stanford Alexander Jewish Family Service$1,203,590
Congregation Emanu El$805,881
Congregation Beth Israel$735,699
Friends of IDF Texas Chapter$479,762
Jewish Federations of North America$478,280
American Society for Technion$410,100
Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Ctr$378,115
Goldberg Montessori School$318,780
PEF Israel Endowment Funds Inc$307,630
American Israel Education Foundation$275,000
Holocaust Museum Houston$256,518
Seven Acres Jewish Senior Care Services$201,432
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $22.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Gladney Center: $350k → 11%John 3-16 Mission: $20k → 14%Honor365: $18k → 8%RespectAbility: $188k → 6%RespectAbility: $188k → 6%Third Option Foundation: $50k → 6%Third Option Foundation: $20k → 6%RespectAbility: $301k → 8%RespectAbility: $188k → 8%RespectAbility: $114k → 8%RespectAbility: $114k → 8%RespectAbility: $114k → 8%Vita Living Fdn: $25k → 16%DJCC Development Corporation: $200k → 10%DJCC Develop Corporation: $100k → 10%Jewish Community Center Assoc of North America: $25k → 17%Amala Foundation: $35k → 10%Jewish Community Center Assoc: $18k → 17%American Red Cross - Greater Houston Chapter: $26k → 16%American Red Cross - Greater Houston: $21k → 16%American Red Cross - Grtr Houston: $15k → 16%Houston Jewish Family Foundation: $5.0M → 16%Jewish Family Service: $2.7M → 16%Alexander Jewish Family Service: $2.3M → 16%Houston Jewish Family Foundation: $1.8M → 16%Jewish Family Service: $1.5M → 16%Jewish Family Service: $1.2M → 16%Jewish Family Service: $1.2M → 16%Joan & Stanford Alexander Jewish Family Service: $1.2M → 16%Jewish Family Service: $1.1M → 16%Jewish Family Service: $960k → 16%Houston Jewish Family Foundation: $431k → 16%Houston Jewish Family Fdn: $100k → 16%Houston Jewish Family Fdn: $51k → 16%Houston Jewish Family Fdn: $22k → 16%Houston Jewish Family Foundation: $21k → 16%Houston Jewish Family Foundation: $20k → 16%Houston Jewish Family Fdn: $18k → 16%Houston Jewish Family Foundation: $16k → 16%Houston Jewish Family Fdn: $16k → 16%Aid to Victims Domestic Abuse: $42k → 16%Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse - AVDA: $25k → 16%Healthcare for Homeless Hstn: $20k → 16%Healthcare for the Homeless Houston: $20k → 16%Healthcare for Homeless Hstn: $20k → 16%Aid to Victims Domestic Abuse: $19k → 16%Kids Meals: $20k → 16%Kids Meals: $16k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$94M · 276 repeat orgs$6.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

276 repeat relationships — 163 still active in FY2024, 113 since wound down; 74 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

276
202

Total granted

$94M
$4.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+13%

Still filing today

77%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +15%
  • HJ
    HOUSTON JEWISH FAMILY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.5M · revenue +79% · 39% of their budget
  • ER
    Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.7M · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • YU
    YESHIVA UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $425k · revenue +31%
  • TG
    THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION
    one grant, 2017 · $350k · revenue +22%
  • RM
    REASONING MIND INC
    one grant, 2017 · $300k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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2
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
3
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
4
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
5
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
6
Brown Hillel Foundation

Brown risd hillel encourages and supports a diversity of students as they explore, develop and deepen their jewish identities. we are committed to having judaism serve as a source of meaning and growth during their time on college hill and…

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7
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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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
9
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
10
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bamberger Ranch Preserve. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsPregnancy Support ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Independent K-12 SchoolsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Policy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Cancer Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesImmigrant Worker SupportSchool District FoundationsEquine Therapy ProgramsLocal History MuseumsMilitary Veterans SupportSchool Parent OrganizationsFaith-Based Social ServicesYouth Development CentersAffordable Housing Developm…Christian Youth CampsChristian Missionary Organi…Lgbtq+ Community SupportVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Youth Sports ProgramsDance Arts OrganizationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Domestic Violence ServicesUnited Way AffiliatesJewish Community Organizati…Community Arts CentersAddiction Recovery ServicesDevelopmental Disabilities …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Animal Rescue and ShelterHealth Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%3%<5yr16%6%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr10%23%35–55yr13%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%2%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr10%19%35–55yr13%56%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%6/584
the rest of the field
15%
20,232/136,220

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.

04the grantee network

481 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. 481 of the 585 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
68
Early backer (in before they grew)
463/481
Grantees still filing
302/481
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Jewish Federation of Greater Houston — $20,802,649 · OtherJewish Federation of Greater HoustonCongregation Beth Israel — $3,648,883 · OtherCongregation Beth IsraelCONGREGATION BETH YESHURUN — $2,740,927 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANU EL — $2,646,194 · OtherHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON — $4,248,428 · OtherHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON+92 more — $23,326,078 · Other+92 moreJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $12,139,129 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVIC…HOUSTON JEWISH FAMILY FOUNDATION — $7,519,936 · Human ServicesHOUSTON JEWISH FAMIL…DISABILITY BELONGS — $1,205,960 · Human ServicesDISABILITY BELONGS+11 more — $1,496,290 · Human Services+11 moreWilliam Marsh Rice University — $2,754,717 · EducationWilliam M…The EmeryWeiner Center for Jewish Education — $2,496,573 · EducationThe Emery…AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC — $1,507,576 · EducationAMERICANS…GOLDBERG MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $1,086,660 · EducationGOLDBERG …YESHIVA UNIVERSITY — $425,000 · Education+24 more — $2,645,173 · Education+24 moreTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $2,386,340 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $1,006,595 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000,100 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA FOUNDATION — $750,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $739,345 · PhilanthropySHALOM AUSTIN — $725,010 · PhilanthropyHouston Parks Board — $672,167 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater Houston — $476,750 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC — $313,920 · Philanthropy+7 more — $1,037,384 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $1,891,300 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $1,648,994 · InternationalHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA — $1,572,254 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $1,230,327 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $781,200 · International+16 more — $1,529,325 · InternationalEvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston — $6,740,726 · ReligionHouston Hillel — $472,265 · ReligionJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC — $345,980 · ReligionMOISHE HOUSE — $282,250 · Religion+2 more — $185,141 · ReligionTexas Children's Hospital — $2,009,143 · HealthSEVEN ACRES JEWISH SENIOR CARE SERVICES INC — $1,845,906 · HealthTHE MENNINGER CLINIC — $900,000 · HealthMental Health America of Greater Houston Inc — $603,914 · HealthTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $527,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc — $460,535 · HealthMemorial Hermann Foundation — $288,250 · Health+10 more — $724,359 · Health
Other$57,413,159Human Services$22,361,315Education$10,915,699Philanthropy$9,107,611International$8,653,400Religion$8,026,362Health$7,359,107

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJewish Federation of Greater Houston — $20,802,649 over 8y, 21% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $12,139,129 over 8y, 24% of budgetHOUSTON JEWISH FAMILY FOUNDATION — $7,519,936 over 8y, 39% of budgetEvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston — $6,740,726 over 8y, 9.6% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON — $4,248,428 over 8y, 15% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $2,754,717 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe EmeryWeiner Center for Jewish Education — $2,496,573 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $2,386,340 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital — $2,009,143 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $1,891,300 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetSEVEN ACRES JEWISH SENIOR CARE SERVICES INC — $1,845,906 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $1,648,994 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA — $1,572,254 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC — $1,507,576 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $1,230,327 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetDISABILITY BELONGS — $1,205,960 over 7y, 20% of budgetRobert M Beren Academy — $1,195,343 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetGOLDBERG MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $1,086,660 over 8y, 22% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $1,006,595 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000,100 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE MENNINGER CLINIC — $900,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $781,200 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA FOUNDATION — $750,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $739,345 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS HILLEL FOUNDATION — $731,522 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetSHALOM AUSTIN — $725,010 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetHouston Parks Board — $672,167 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMental Health America of Greater Houston Inc — $603,914 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetCamp Young Judaea Inc — $597,164 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION — $585,251 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $545,260 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $542,387 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $527,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $520,545 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston — $476,750 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Hillel — $472,265 over 8y, 11% of budgetHadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc — $468,260 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc — $460,535 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY — $425,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $418,082 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJUDAISM AND DEMOCRACY ACTION ALLIANCE OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $400,000 over 6y, 8.4% of budgetTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION — $350,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC — $345,980 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetTHE HOUSTON FRIENDSHIP AND WELLNESS CIRCLE INC — $330,240 over 7y, 34% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC — $313,920 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetDJCC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $300,180 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetREASONING MIND INC — $300,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budget
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 Jewish Federation of Greater Houston ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds HOUSTON JEWISH FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston ↗
  • Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
  • Who funds The EmeryWeiner Center for Jewish Education ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds SEVEN ACRES JEWISH SENIOR CARE SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds DISABILITY BELONGS ↗
  • Who funds Robert M Beren Academy ↗
  • Who funds GOLDBERG MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MENNINGER CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHALOM AUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds Houston Parks Board ↗
  • Who funds Mental Health America of Greater Houston Inc ↗
  • Who funds Camp Young Judaea Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Albert & Ethel Herzst…Jewish Federation of …Greater Houston Commu…The Brown Foundation …Strake FoundationDallas Jewish Communi…The Stanford & Joan A…Mechia FoundationVivian L Smith Founda…The Powell FoundationHouston Endowment IncThe Brodsky Foundation
Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable FoundationTX77× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Houston · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Strake Foundation · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · The Stanford & Joan Alexander Foundation · Mechia Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Brodsky 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 Houston Jewish Community 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 585 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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