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Jesse W Couch Charitable 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.

$3.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Education$3.7MEnvironment$3.2MAnimals$1.2MYouth Development$1.1MHealth$1.1MArts & Culture$945kHuman Services$663kFood & Nutrition$484kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k34 grants · $2.6M
  • $250k+3 grants · $750k
$70,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMP FOR ALL$250,000
Individual grant recipient$250,000
Individual grant recipient$250,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$175,000
TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$150,000
CHOCTAWHATCHEE BASIN ALLIANCE$136,500
JACKSON WILD$125,000
KIPP TEXAS$125,000
THE SAINT CONSTANTINE SCHOOL$110,000
ARBORETUM SAN ANTONIO$100,000
IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS$100,000
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$100,000
SCENIC WALTON$100,000
NEW STORY$100,000
ALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE$91,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $967k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HEROES AND HORSES INC: $20k → 10%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $25k → 5%NONPAREIL INSTITUTE: $35k → 5%ADVENTURE FOR ALL: $89k → 9%FLORIDA KEYS CHILDRENS SHELTER INC: $5k → 13%NEW STORY: $100k → 14%FISH FOR CHANGE: $20k → 12%FREE2LUV INC: $10k → 9%HEROES AND HORSES: $50k → 10%NONPAREIL INSTITUTE: $25k → 5%ADVENTURE FOR ALL: $50k → 9%HEROES AND HORSES INC: $10k → 10%ADVENTURE FOR ALL: $30k → 9%FOOD DEPOT: $5k → 12%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $50k → 16%PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM: $75k → 16%BOYS & GIRLS COUNTRY HOUSTON: $63k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON: $55k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $50k → 16%MOVING WATERS: $50k → 16%MOVING WATERS: $50k → 16%MOVING WATERS: $25k → 16%KIDS MEALS: $50k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $25k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.8M · 48 repeat orgs$4.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
88

Total granted

$9.8M
$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+20%

Still filing today

90%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsHealthOther

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

  • TP
    THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +39%
  • KT
    KIPP Texas Inc
    7× · 2018–2025 · $880k · revenue +681%
  • TC
    Texas Children's Hospital
    4× · 2020–2025 · $400k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • NF
    NORTHWEST FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $256k · revenue +27%
  • HS
    HOUSTON SOC FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO Animals
    one grant, 2018 · $250k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +193%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Trees for Houston

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

2
Natural History Institute

Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…

Arts & Culture
3
Trinity Park Conservancy

Trinity Park Conservancy champions the transformation of the Trinity River to become the heart of Dallas. With the community, the Conservancy will design public spaces that unite us, enrich people's lives through access to nature, create…

Community Improvement
4
Bay Nature Institute dba Bay Nature Bay Nature Magazine

Bay Nature connects the people of the San Francisco Bay Area to our natural world and motivates people to solve problems with nature in mind. Our vision is that all people have a close relationship with theirnatural world.

Environment
5
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
6
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
7
Tucson Audubon Society

Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.

Animals
8
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
9
Bexar Land Trust Inc dba Green Spaces Alliance of South Texas

The mission of Bexar Land Trust (Green Spaces) is to sustain the natural environment and enhance urban spaces through land conservation, community engagement, and education.

Environment
10
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
11
The South Fork Conservancy Incorporated

The mission of the South Fork Conservancy is to restore and preserve habitat along the tributaries of Peachtree Creek. We give the community access to these healthy, restored greenspaces by designing, building and maintaining nature trails.

Environment
12
Balboa Park Conservancy

Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Educated Choices Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is The 5 Gyres Institute. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity FoundationsYouth Sports ProgramsHealth Access Advocacy and …Military Veterans SupportCommunity FoundationsChristian Youth CampsEquine Therapy ProgramsCommunity Arts CentersWomen & Girls Leadership De…Local History MuseumsIndependent K-12 SchoolsFood Banks and PantriesLocal Food System Organizat…Community College Foundatio…Environmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%19%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/134
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,431

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.

04the grantee network

133 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 133 of the 151 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
130/133
Grantees still filing
88/133
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $500,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $335,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYTHE CHOCTAWHATCHEE BASIN ALLIANCE — $312,500 · OtherNORTHWEST FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $256,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $250,000 · OtherHOUSTON SOC FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO Animals — $250,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION — $250,000 · OtherTexas Children's Hospital — $400,000 · OtherTexas Children's HospitalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $225,000 · OtherCenter for Humane Technology — $300,000 · Other+55 more — $2,977,430 · Other+55 moreTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA — $1,000,000 · EducationTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL …KIPP Texas Inc — $880,000 · EducationKIPP Texas IncDONORSCHOOSEORG — $300,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORGThe Brenda & John H Duncan Rise School of Houston — $200,000 · EducationThe Brenda & John H Dunca…Baylor College of Medicine — $150,000 · Education+18 more — $863,167 · Education+18 morePARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS — $350,000 · EnvironmentPARKS AND WILDL…SCENIC AMERICA — $280,000 · EnvironmentSCENIC AMERICASCENIC WALTON INC — $249,000 · EnvironmentSCENIC WALTON I…Houston Botanic Garden — $185,000 · EnvironmentHouston Botanic…NOKUSE EDUCATION INC — $131,000 · EnvironmentNOKUSE EDUCATIO…Arboretum San Antonio — $100,000 · EnvironmentTHE GREAT SPRINGS PROJECT INC (AUDIT) — $100,000 · EnvironmentHouston Arboretum & Nature Center — $85,000 · Environment+18 more — $576,500 · Environment+18 moreCamp For All Foundation — $1,000,000 · Youth DevelopmentEXPERIENCE CAMPS — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentCONSERVATION LEGACY — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentAdventure for All Corporation — $168,500 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC — $168,000 · Human ServicesMOVING WATERS — $125,000 · Human ServicesNEW STORY INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesHEROES AND HORSES INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesPRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesNONPAREIL INSTITUTE — $60,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS — $50,000 · Human Services+6 more — $70,000 · Human ServicesALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC — $341,500 · AnimalsEMERALD COAST WILDLIFE REFUGE INC — $225,000 · AnimalsHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $90,000 · AnimalsREVIVE & RESTORE — $50,000 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $50,000 · Animals+4 more — $32,900 · AnimalsMenil Foundation Inc — $200,000 · Arts & CultureLone Star Flight Museum — $150,000 · Arts & CultureJACKSON WILD — $125,000 · Arts & CultureFAYETTEVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER GROUP — $75,000 · Arts & CultureBATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Museum of Natural Science — $50,000 · Arts & CulturePILGRIMAGE FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN AIRPOWER HERITAGE MUSEUM INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureGLENWOOD CEMETERY HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$6,055,930Education$3,393,167Environment$2,056,500Youth Development$1,100,000Human Services$971,500Animals$789,400Arts & Culture$740,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA — $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCamp For All Foundation — $1,000,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetKIPP Texas Inc — $880,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital — $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS — $350,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC — $341,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $335,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $300,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for Humane Technology — $300,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetSCENIC AMERICA — $280,000 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetNORTHWEST FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $256,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetSCENIC WALTON INC — $249,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetEMERALD COAST WILDLIFE REFUGE INC — $225,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $225,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMenil Foundation Inc — $200,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Brenda & John H Duncan Rise School of Houston — $200,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetHouston Botanic Garden — $185,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetAdventure for All Corporation — $168,500 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC — $168,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLone Star Flight Museum — $150,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetON RIVER TIME — $150,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetNOKUSE EDUCATION INC — $131,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetFOOD FINDERS INC — $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOVING WATERS — $125,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetJACKSON WILD — $125,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCamp Allen Camp & Conference Center — $120,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SAINT CONSTANTINE SCHOOL — $110,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSCREEN SANITY INC — $105,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetHouston Parks Board — $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetREBOOT INC — $100,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetIDEA Public Schools — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREAT SPRINGS PROJECT INC (AUDIT) — $100,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSEASHARE — $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE SEASIDE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $95,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $90,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHouston Arboretum & Nature Center — $85,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHEROES AND HORSES INC — $80,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetRecipe for Success Foundation — $79,150 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL & SOUTH TEXAS — $75,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC — $75,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation — $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFAYETTEVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER GROUP — $75,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetSOUTH WALTON MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC — $75,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetFLORIDA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budget
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.

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.

Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable FoundationTX43.6× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Powell Foundation · Strake Foundation · Sterling-Turner 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 Jesse W Couch Charitable 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 150%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Florida Keys Childrens Shelter Inc19% of income from government
  • Echo Hill Outdoor School Inc5% of income from government
  • Sea Turtle Conservancy1% of income from government
  • Marion Therapeutic Riding Association Inc1% of income from government
  • Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc0% of income from government
  • Northwest Florida State College Foundation Inc0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Jesse W Couch Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jesse W Couch Charitable Foundation 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 151 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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