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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- TPTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA4× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +39%
- KTKIPP Texas Inc7× · 2018–2025 · $880k · revenue +681%
- TCTexas Children's Hospital4× · 2020–2025 · $400k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- NFNORTHWEST FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $256k · revenue +27%
- HSHOUSTON SOC FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO Animalsone grant, 2018 · $250k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATIONgraduatedone 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.
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.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
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…
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…
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.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
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.
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.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
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.
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.
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 field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds Camp For All Foundation ↗
- Who funds KIPP Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds ALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds Center for Humane Technology ↗
- Who funds SCENIC AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCENIC WALTON INC ↗
- Who funds EMERALD COAST WILDLIFE REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Menil Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Brenda & John H Duncan Rise School of Houston ↗
- Who funds Houston Botanic Garden ↗
- Who funds Adventure for All Corporation ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Lone Star Flight Museum ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds ON RIVER TIME ↗
- Who funds NOKUSE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FINDERS INC ↗
- Who funds MOVING WATERS ↗
- Who funds JACKSON WILD ↗
- Who funds Camp Allen Camp & Conference Center ↗
- Who funds THE SAINT CONSTANTINE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SCREEN SANITY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW STORY 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: 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.
- Florida Keys Childrens Shelter Inc — 19% of income from government
- Echo Hill Outdoor School Inc — 5% of income from government
- Sea Turtle Conservancy — 1% of income from government
- Marion Therapeutic Riding Association Inc — 1% of income from government
- Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Northwest Florida State College Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors 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.
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