How much does Hurwitz Family Foundation give?

Hurwitz Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $132,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Hurwitz Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (46%), Health (30%), Arts & Culture (7%).

Who are Hurwitz Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Palmas Academy Inc ($150k), Banner Alzheimer's Foundation ($105k), Holocaust Museum Houston ($88k).

Does Hurwitz Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Hurwitz Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Hurwitz Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Mechia Foundation, Adler Foundation.

Where is Hurwitz Family Foundation based?

Hurwitz Family Foundation is based in TX.

Hurwitz Family Foundation

Hurwitz Family Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

Hurwitz Family 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.

$132k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$602kHealth$389kArts & Culture$99kPhilanthropy$90kReligion$43kInternational$35kHuman Services$25kEnvironment$13kOther$0

02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $2k
$10k–50k8 grants · $130k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BANNER ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION	$25,000
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER	$25,000
THE PALMAS ACADEMY	$25,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HOUSTON	$15,000
HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$10,000
FAMILIES EMPOWERED	$10,000
MEDICAL BRIDGES	$10,000
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON	$10,000
SEACUS	$1,000
SEVEN ACRES JEWISH SENIOR CARE SERVICES	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$926k · 20 repeat orgs$304k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$926k

$293k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

+33%

Still filing today

65%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationInternationalEnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsOther

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

TP
THE PALMAS ACADEMY INC
3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +39%
FE
FAMILIES EMPOWERED
8× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +14%
BC
Baylor College of Medicine
4× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +67%

Funded once

KA
KIPP ACADEMY
one grant, 2017 · $141k
BS
BANNER SUN HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE
one grant, 2024 · $25k
ML
MICKEY LELAND KIBBUTZIM FOUNDATION
one grant, 2018 · $25k

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.

Houston Museum of Natural Science

The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…

Arts & Culture

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

Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment

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

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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Mhs Physicians of Texas

Health

Memorial Hermann Health System

Health

The Awty International School

See Schedule OThe purpose of Awty International School (Awty) is to create an environment where students experience excellence every day to make their mark on the world alongside their community, in a spirit of curiosity, courage and…

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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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William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education

Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health

Baylor Scott & White Holdings

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Hermann Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Pha Pterocarpus Forest Inc. 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

27 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. 27 of the 48 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/27

Grantees still filing

17/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$916,708Health$145,500Education$101,860Arts & Culture$88,650International$35,000Human Services$18,500Environment$13,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

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 Community FoundationTX26.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Mechia Foundation · Adler Foundation · The Lewis and Joan Lowenstein Foundation · The Stanford & Joan Alexander Foundation · J Squared Family Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Meyer and Ida Gordon Foundation 2 · The Brodsky Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · Houston Jewish Community Foundation

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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

4report 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.

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