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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.

$47k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2024
53%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 17
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$323k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 53% of the organizations Huston Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$47k64%
FY202417$124k53%
FY202315$73k60%
FY202211$70k64%
FY202115$41k67%
FY202014$22kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$206kHuman Services$69kAnimals$39kFood & Nutrition$25kEducation$24kPublic Benefit$11kArts & Culture$4kCrime & Legal$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
NY
IA
IN
NJ
NE
MO
VA
MD
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($209k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Huston Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $52,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMainspring Schools Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPaws Prayers & Promises: $17,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetChrist Child Society of Fort Wayne: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetDisabled Veterans National Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Safe Alliance: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Fisher House - Illinois Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRutherford County Humane Society Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMeals on Wheels: $2,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMultiple Sclerosis Association of America Inc: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Shore Senior Center: $2,080 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Care Center Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe New Hampton School: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Contemporary Art: $1,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Song Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Joffrey Ballet: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFreshLens Chicago: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAsheville Humane Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPaws Chicago: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Cedar Cliff: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConsumer Reports Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Huston Foundation

How much does Huston Foundation give?
Huston Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $47,150 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Huston Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (53%), Human Services (18%), Animals (10%).
Who are Huston Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Endeavor Health Clinical Operations ($52k), Mainspring Schools Inc ($20k), Fun4seniors ($20k).
Does Huston Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Huston 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 Huston Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Huston Foundation based?
Huston Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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