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Jeff B and Katherine B Love Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Jeff B and Katherine B Love Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$175k
Granted FY2019
32
Grants FY2019
9
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2019.

Education$272kHealth$176kYouth Development$56kRecreation & Sports$21kPhilanthropy$12kArts & Culture$9kMembership Benefit$7kReligion$6kOther$0
02FY2019 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k28 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$2,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$118k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$55,300
THE UT MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$45,250
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION$11,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM$10,000
THE KINKAID SCHOOL$8,000
PROJECT HAND UP$5,000
THE PIN OAK CHARITY HORSE SHOW$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA$5,000
ASTROS FOUNDATION$4,000
PHI DELTA THETA FRATERNITY$2,500
TEACH FOR AMERICA$2,500
HOUSTON MARITIME MUSEUM$2,500
SPRINGSPIRIT BASEBALL$2,500
MEMORIAL HERMANN FOUNDATION$2,500
SEARCH INC$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $450) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.

area typical 11%COVENANT HOUSE: $250 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $200 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

IL
NY
MA
OH
CT
MD
NM
TN
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$515k · 17 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
29

Total granted

$515k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
+13%

Still filing today

53%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
EducationHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentInternationalHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • Vanderbilt University
    3× · 2017–2019 · $165k · revenue +74%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $56k · revenue +62%
  • TU
    The University of Texas Law School Foundation
    3× · 2017–2019 · $34k · revenue +146%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CHURCH OF APOSTLES
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • TP
    THE PINK OAK CHARITY HORSE SHOW
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • TW
    THE WILL ERWIN HEADACHE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +2%
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.

1
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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2
Houston Botanic Garden

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

Environment
3
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
4
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
5
Mhs Physicians of Texas

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
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
7
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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8
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
9
American Leadership Forum Houston Gulf Coast Chapter

American Leadership Forum (ALF) brings together, in classes, leaders with diverse perspectives so they can build relationships, learn to dialogue and respectfully differ, and work together for the good of our community.

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10
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
11
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
12
Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Hermann Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Astros Foundation. 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

41 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. 41 of the 64 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
32/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UT MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $142,250 · OtherTHE UT MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM: $33,584 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEMTHE PIN OAK CHARITY HORSE SHOW: $10,000 · OtherUT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER: $10,000 · Other+29 more: $49,750 · Other+29 moreVanderbilt University: $164,900 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityThe University of Texas Law School Foundation: $34,000 · EducationThe University of Texas Law School FoundationThe Kinkaid School Inc: $28,500 · EducationThe Kinkaid School Inc+7 more: $8,950 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $56,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRL…ASTROS FOUNDATION: $9,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater Houston: $2,500 · PhilanthropyThe Periwinkle Foundation: $2,166 · Philanthropy+1 more: $200 · PhilanthropyMemorial Hermann Foundation: $7,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $3,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 · Health+7 more: $1,750 · HealthTHE WILL ERWIN HEADACHE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EnvironmentMemorial Park Conservancy Inc: $1,000 · EnvironmentGarden Club of Houston: $500 · EnvironmentJAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETY OF HOUSTON: $2,500 · InternationalALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $250 · InternationalJunior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc: $250 · International
Other$245,584Education$236,350Youth Development$56,000Philanthropy$13,866Health$12,750Environment$6,500International$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVanderbilt University: $164,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $56,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Texas Law School Foundation: $34,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Kinkaid School Inc: $28,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Hermann Foundation: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHI DELTA THETA FRATERNITY: $6,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WILL ERWIN HEADACHE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHETA CHARITY EVENTS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETY OF HOUSTON: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Appleseed: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Periwinkle Foundation: $2,166 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSearch Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Access to Justice Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Park Conservancy Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGarden Club of Houston: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LYME DISEASE FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJunior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKY HIGH FOR KIDS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL ACADEMY INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClarewood House Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Commu…The Kayser FoundationHobby Family Foundati…Houston Endowment IncShell USA Company Fou…Hackett Family Founda…The Brown Foundation …The Krist FoundationVivian L Smith Founda…Albert & Ethel Herzst…The Sidley Austin Fou…Centerpoint Energy Fo…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX25.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Kayser Foundation · Hobby Family Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Hackett Family Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Krist Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc

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 Jeff B and Katherine B Love Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jeff B and Katherine B Love Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

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 64 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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