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Huston 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Macular Degeneration Research | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Disabled Veterans Nat'l Foundation | $5,000 |
| Veterans of Foreign Wars | $5,000 |
| Rutherford Humane Society | $4,000 |
| Paws Prayers & Promises | $4,000 |
| Susan G Koman Foundation | $2,000 |
| Salem Lutheran Church | $2,000 |
| Parkinson Research Foundation | $2,000 |
| Christ Child Society | $2,000 |
| Disabled Veterans Nat'l Foundation | $1,000 |
| K & D Puppies | $150 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- EHEndeavor Health Clinical Operations3× · 2020–2022 · $52k · revenue +25%
- PPPAWS PRAYERS & PROMISES6× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +111%
- TSTHE SAFE ALLIANCE2× · 2021–2023 · $5k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- MSMAINSPRING SCHOOLS INCone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
- FFUN4SENIORSone grant, 2024 · $20k
- CCCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF FORT WAYNEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +103%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Northwestern memorial healthcare is an integrated healthcare system, consisting of multiple hospitals (including northwestern memorial hospital, an academic medical center) and networks of physicians and healthcare professionals, where the…
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Ann & robert h. lurie children's hospital of chicago is dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a…
We are an organization of caregivers who aspire to consistent, high standards of quality, cost-effectiveness and patient satisfaction. we seek to improve the health of the communities we serve by delivering a broad range of services with…
Upmc carlisle's mission is to serve the community by providing access to outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health care system through clinical and technological innovation, research and education.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
To continue christ's healing love through delivery of competent & compassionate healthcare in an environment sensitive to the needs of all people. the hospital is committed to providing a broad range of quality inpatient and outpatient…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Shore Senior Center and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
29 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. 29 of the 57 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Endeavor Health Clinical Operations ↗
- Who funds MAINSPRING SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds FUN4SENIORS ↗
- Who funds PAWS PRAYERS & PROMISES ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF FORT WAYNE ↗
- Who funds DISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE - ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds RUTHERFORD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOFFREY BALLET ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SONG INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Huston 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.