· Private foundation
Isla Carroll Turner Friendship Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k61 grants · $920k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $555k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Dominic Village | $100,000 |
| The Brookwood Community | $100,000 |
| Stilwell Retirement Residence | $55,000 |
| Houston Hospice | $50,000 |
| All Saints Catholic Parish | $50,000 |
| Vita-Living Inc | $50,000 |
| Target Hunger | $50,000 |
| Galveston County Food Bank | $50,000 |
| Holly Hall | $50,000 |
| Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc | $45,000 |
| Dominican Sisters of Mary Immaculate Province | $45,000 |
| The Beacon | $35,000 |
| Missions of Yahweh Inc | $35,000 |
| Regional East Texas Food Bank | $30,000 |
| Clarewood House Inc | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% 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.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
84 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k 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
The Brookwood Community Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $540k · revenue +29%- SDST DOMINIC VILLAGE5× · 2019–2024 · $325k · revenue +13%
- GCGALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK6× · 2019–2024 · $285k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +17%
- ADAgape Development Ministriesone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -7%
- WLW LEO DANIELS TOWERSone grant, 2019 · $40k
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.
Established in 1934, vna helps older adults live with dignity and independence at home by providing in-home care, food and friendship for the ill, hungry, and homebound.
The organizations primary mission is to provide and deliver nutritious meals to eligible persons allowing them to maintain their independence. The agency is generally known as Meals on Wheels.
To foster the independence and dignity of homebound seniors in montgomery county by providing them with nutritious meals, transportation, and caring connections.
Meals on Wheels of Odessa enables people to live with dignity by offering community support and sustenance through coordinated services and enable older adults to live in their own homes safely and independently as long as they are able.
The center functions to serve senior adults 60 yrs and older. provide programs and services that will enable the individuals to be an integral part of the community and allow them to retain independence dignity and sense of well being
Low income housing for the elderly.
LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.
The organization operates an adult day care facility in midland, texas which offers a multi-disciplinary, comprehensive health and activity program for frail and impaired elderly and disabled residents.
Organization provides services to senior citizens and the disabled, primarily through home-delivered meals and congregate meals.
To serve the elderly of somervell county, tx providing information on aging and assisting family and friends who care for older citizens, with emphasis on minority and low income persons.
Hospice of san angelo, inc. (hospice or organization) provides an expert approach to care for those living with a limiting illness in the comfort of their own home and designated nursing homes throughout the twelve counties in the west…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels San Antonio and the most unlike its peers is The Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
106 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. 106 of the 129 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 The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds ST DOMINIC VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds VITA LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Target Hunger Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF YAHWEH INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Hospice ↗
- Who funds Clarewood House Inc ↗
- Who funds SEVEN ACRES JEWISH SENIOR CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Houston's Amazing Place Inc ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Houston Area Parkinson Society ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together Houston ↗
- Who funds CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare ↗
- Who funds New Hope Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds COMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RETIRED TEACHERS RESIDENCE CORP ↗
- Who funds JASPER COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Good Samaritan Foundation of Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds NIXON HOME CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Halo House Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE ROSE ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS AND MORE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH CARING MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PURSUIT ↗
- Who funds Eden Home Inc ↗
- Who funds MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CANCARE INC ↗
- Who funds METROPORT MEALS ON WHEELS 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: Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · The Moody Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · Strake Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Texas Mutual Insurance Company · MD Anderson 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 Isla Carroll Turner Friendship Trust 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.
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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Isla Carroll Turner Friendship Trust?
Find your warmest path to Isla Carroll Turner Friendship Trust 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.