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Huffington Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$9.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$2.4M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Health$23MEducation$15MEnvironment$6.7MPhilanthropy$3.1MHuman Services$2.3MFood & Nutrition$1.6MYouth Development$1.5MSocial Science$1.0MOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $230k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $300k
  • $250k+13 grants · $8.6M
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$143M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,350,000
TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$2,000,000
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$1,000,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$500,000
CAMP FOR ALL FOUNDATION$500,000
EMERGE FELLOWSHIP$350,000
WOMEN'S HOME (THE)$335,000
HALO HOUSE FOUNDATION$300,000
KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS$250,000
BETA FOUNDATION (THE)$250,000
HOUSTON AMAZING PLACE$250,000
HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER$250,000
COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS$250,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD GULF COAST$150,000
URBAN HARVEST INC$150,000
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 (FY19–24, $4.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOUSTON AMAZING PLACE: $500k → 16%HOUSTON AMAZING PLACE: $250k → 16%HOUSTON AMAZING PLACE: $250k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $500k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $250k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 16%HOUSTON APHASIA RECOVERY CENTER: $10k → 16%HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $15k → 16%HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $15k → 16%TARGET HUNGER: $500k → 16%HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $15k → 16%HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $15k → 16%HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $15k → 16%HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $15k → 16%BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS: $250k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $500k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $250k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $250k → 16%HOLLY HALL: $5k → 16%HOLLY HALL: $5k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $25k → 16%HOLLY HALL: $5k → 16%HOLLY HALL: $5k → 16%HOLLY HALL: $5k → 16%HOLLY HALL: $5k → 16%KID'S MEALS INC: $600k → 16%COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS: $10k → 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

IL
NY
CT
CA
CO
VA
DC
TX

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$43M · 50 repeat orgs$5.9M to everyone else

50 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
19

Total granted

$43M
$5.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+35%

Still filing today

70%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsOther

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

  • TC
    Texas Children's Hospital
    6× · 2019–2024 · $10M · revenue +48%
  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicine
    6× · 2019–2024 · $6.0M · revenue +47%
  • WM
    William Marsh Rice University
    4× · 2020–2023 · $4.0M · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • The Madeira Schoolgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +136%
  • UH
    UT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $1.0M
  • HC
    HOPE CLINIC INC
    one grant, 2020 · $750k · revenue 0%

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.

1
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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2
Breakthrough Houston

The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.

Education
3
Rebuilding Together Houston

Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…

Housing & Shelter
4
Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County

The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.

Human Services
5
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
6
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
7
The Heritage Society

The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…

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8
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
9
Houston MediaSource

Houston MediaSource aspires to be the community media center for the City of Houston. HMS provides public access to media platforms that promote citizen engagement, protect the right to free expression, and provide opportunities to advance…

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
Houston Area Community Services

Our mission is to provide high quality and caring services to promote healthy people and communities.

Health
12
Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc

Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston Community Health Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wesleyan University. 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 backsteadyResidential Services for Vu…Faith-Based K-12 SchoolsDog Rescue and AdoptionCommunity Health ServicesCommunity Health & Social S…Youth Mentoring and Support…Performing Arts Organizatio…Healthcare System OperationsGrantmaking & Fundraising F…Urban Parks & Nature Conser…
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 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number30%0%<5yr17%2%5–10yr21%8%10–20yr17%34%20–35yr8%38%35–55yr8%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value30%0%<5yr17%2%5–10yr21%4%10–20yr17%51%20–35yr8%14%35–55yr8%30%55yr+

The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/57
the rest of the field
19%
3,802/20,384

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

57 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. 57 of the 77 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
41/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Baylor College of Medicine — $6,012,000 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineWilliam Marsh Rice University — $4,000,000 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice UniversityTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $3,500,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND…EMERGE Fellowship — $1,000,000 · EducationEMERGE FellowshipThe Madeira School — $1,000,000 · EducationThe Madeira SchoolWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $600,000 · Education+5 more — $1,207,500 · Education+5 moreTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $5,500,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYRIVER OAKS BAPTIST SCHOOL — $2,000,000 · OtherRIVER OAKS BAPTIST SCHOOLUT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER — $1,000,000 · OtherUT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTERTHE JUNG CENTER — $1,000,000 · OtherTHE JUNG CENTERWOMEN'S HOME (THE) — $785,000 · OtherKIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $750,000 · OtherHOPE CLINIC INC — $750,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF HOUSTON — $610,000 · OtherAMAZING PLACE — $600,000 · Other+29 more — $2,765,825 · Other+29 moreTexas Children's Hospital — $10,000,000 · HealthTexas Children's Hospita…Harris County Hospital District Foundation — $1,000,000 · HealthHarris County Hospital D…+6 more — $826,500 · Health+6 moreHouston Area Women's Center — $1,010,000 · Human ServicesHouston's Amazing Place Inc — $1,000,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS — $750,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INC — $600,000 · Human ServicesTarget Hunger Inc — $500,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC — $250,000 · Human Services+5 more — $205,000 · Human ServicesYAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,350,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $750,000 · PhilanthropyHouston Parks Board — $150,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $22,000 · PhilanthropyHouston Botanic Garden — $825,000 · EnvironmentUrban Harvest Inc — $500,000 · EnvironmentHermann Park Conservancy — $250,000 · Environment+1 more — $40,000 · EnvironmentCamp For All Foundation — $1,500,000 · Youth Development
Education$17,319,500Other$15,760,825Health$11,826,500Human Services$4,315,000Philanthropy$3,272,000Environment$1,615,000Youth Development$1,500,000

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 budgetTexas Children's Hospital — $10,000,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $6,012,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $4,000,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $3,500,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,350,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetCamp For All Foundation — $1,500,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetHouston Area Women's Center — $1,010,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetEMERGE Fellowship — $1,000,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetThe Madeira School — $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHarris County Hospital District Foundation — $1,000,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetHouston's Amazing Place Inc — $1,000,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetHouston Botanic Garden — $825,000 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS — $750,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $750,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC — $600,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $600,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARBOR SCHOOL — $575,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetYES Prep Public Schools Inc — $525,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUrban Harvest Inc — $500,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetTarget Hunger Inc — $500,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetHalo House Foundation — $300,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC — $250,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSteamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports — $250,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetHermann Park Conservancy — $250,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCamp Allen Camp & Conference Center — $200,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetHouston Parks Board — $150,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHouston Area Parkinson Society — $140,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetCANCARE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetHEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS-HOUSTON — $90,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROSE — $70,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSmall Steps Nurturing Center — $67,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science — $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC — $60,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHOSPITALITY APARTMENTS — $50,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MENNINGER CLINIC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBo's Place — $45,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetHOUSTON WILDERNESS INC — $40,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCitizens For Animal Protection Inc — $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Hospice — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHolly Hall — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Greater Houston Commu…Strake FoundationAlbert & Ethel Herzst…Shell USA Company Fou…The Brown Foundation …The William Stamps Fa…Vivian L Smith Founda…The Elkins FoundationHarry S & Isabel C Ca…Marek Family Foundati…MD Anderson FoundationThe Methodist Hospital
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX48.7× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Marek Family Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · The Methodist Hospital

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 Huffington 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 · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Huffington Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Huffington Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 77 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines