· Private foundation
Jfa Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| DILLEY METHODIST CHURCH | $15,000 |
| MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC | $10,000 |
| HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CAMP LA JUNTA FUND | $10,000 |
| BIG BEND CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $3,000 |
| TEXAS LAND CONSERVANCY | $3,000 |
| ST PAUL'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $2,600 |
| EMERGENCY AID COALITION | $2,000 |
| HERMANN PARK CONSERVANCY INC | $2,000 |
| ORANGE SHOW CENTER FOR VISIONARY ART | $2,000 |
| DILLEY MEMORIAL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| THE JOHN FAIREY GARDEN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Jfa Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 88%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SUSOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +59%
- MPMemorial Park Conservancy Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +138%
- TMTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- MFMenil Foundation Incone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -4%
- SPST PAUL'S METHODIST CHURCH CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $3k
- TGTHE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +44%
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.
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.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
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…
To advance the conservation of birds and their habitats in the Greater Houston Gulf Coast region by acquiring and maintaining critical habitat as bird sanctuaries, providing education programs and nature experiences, and advocating policy…
To completely restore Houston Freedmen's Town as a heritage district that provides America with its only Freedmen's Town.
The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…
As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Houston Parks Board mission is to expand, improve, and protect parks and greenspace in the Houston region.
The Houston Parks Board Foundation provides the Houston Parks Board with financial assistance to support operations and park projects.
Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…
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,…
Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 51 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds Menil Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY AID COALITION ↗
- Who funds Coastal Prairie Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Hermann Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Peckerwood Gardens Conservation Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Texas Land Conservancy ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds BakerRipley ↗
- Who funds The Orange Show Foundation ↗
- Who funds Trees For Houston ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds WORKSHOP HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE WILL ERWIN HEADACHE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Susan Vaughan Foundation Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Hobby Family Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jfa Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jfa Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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