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Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$243k
Granted FY2022
8
Grants FY2022
8
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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57% of Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $243k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

7
’17
17
’18
13
’19
10
’20
14
’21
6
’22
8
’23
5
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2022
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 19
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
2
Total assets, FY2022
$6.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureCivil RightsHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20228$243k0%
FY202115$350k13%
FY202012$260k17%
FY201914$290k7%
FY201819$390k68%
FY20179$107kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$596kEducation$370kArts & Culture$270kPhilanthropy$268kHealth$227kHuman Services$143kYouth Development$81kAnimals$65kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 26 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($383k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetACLU Foundation of Texas Inc: $320,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetThe Center for Reproductive Rights Inc: $260,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Area Women's Center: $130,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHouston Center for Photography Inc: $95,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIgnite Texas: $50,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetThe Montrose Center: $46,023 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWorkshop Houston: $41,175 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetBarrio Dogs Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetProject Row Houses: $40,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Washington County Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTexas Organizing Project Education Fund: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNameless Sound: $35,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetCorridor Rescue Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetLawndale Art & Performance Center: $25,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCollage the Art for Cancer Network: $25,000 over 3y, 59% of budgetBrenham Heritage Museum: $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCatastrophic Theatre Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAvow Foundation for Abortion Access: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNew Leaders Council: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe Brauntex Performing Arts Theater Ass: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Council on Recovery: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFarm and City: $10,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetEQTX Equality Texas Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildbuilders: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Houston Endowment IncTX25.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Houston Endowment Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Houston Arts Alliance · Union Pacific Foundation · Anchorage Foundation of Texas · Don a Sanders Family Foundation · The Simmons Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · The Dallas Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich 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.

About Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Foundation

How much does Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Foundation give?
Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $242,500 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (28%), Education (17%), Arts & Culture (13%).
Who are Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc ($320k), The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc ($260k), Houston Area Women's Center ($130k).
Does Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Houston Endowment Inc, Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc.
Where is Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Foundation based?
Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Foundation is based in TX.

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 31 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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