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Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Foundation at a glance

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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
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

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

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’17
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13
’19
10
’20
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’21
6
’22
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’23
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’24

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

01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2022 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACLU Foundation Texas Inc$100,000
Center for Reproductive Rights Inc$75,000
University of Houston$25,000
Houston Area Womens Center Inc$15,000
Workshop Houston$10,000
Barrio Dogs Inc$10,000
Corridor Rescue$5,000
REW Community Center of Clay$2,500
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 (FY17–24, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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%Houston Area Womens Center Inc: $30k → 16%Houston Area Womens Center Inc: $20k → 16%Houston Area Womens Center Inc: $20k → 16%Houston Area Womens Center Inc: $20k → 16%Houston Area Womens Center Inc: $15k → 16%Houston Area Womens Center Inc: $15k → 16%Houston Area Women's Center: $10k → 16%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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 22 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2022, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
5

Total granted

$1.8M
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+25%

Still filing today

91%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc
    5× · 2018–2023 · $320k · revenue +76%
  • THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $260k · revenue +58%
  • HA
    Houston Area Women's Center
    7× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • PP
    Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +25%
  • TB
    THE BRAUNTEX PERFORMING ARTS THEATER ASSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +99%
  • CA
    Collage Art for Cancer Network
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
2
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

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3
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

CAMH presents extraordinary and thought-provoking arts programming and exhibitions.

Arts & Culture
4
Breakthrough Houston

The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.

Education
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
Arts Connect Houston

Arts Connect Houston unites with the greater Houston community to ensure access to high-quality arts education in creative writing, dance, music, theater, and the visual arts for every student, beginning with Houston ISD.

Arts & Culture
7
The Women's Resource of Greater Houston

See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…

Philanthropy
8
Planned Parenthood South Texas

The purpose of Planned Parenthood South Texas ("the Organization") is to provide family planning and sexual healthcare services to both adults and teenagers, with particular emphasis on serving low-income and medically underserved…

Health
9
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Family Planning and Preventative Health

Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Family Planning and Preventative Health provides comprehensive and complementary health care services in settings that preserve and protect the essential privacy and rights of the individual, advocates…

Health
10
Eqtx Equality Texas dba Equality Texas

EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration.

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11
Austin Rainbow Theatre

Austin Rainbow Theatre provides affordable theatre that focuses on creating belonging, reducing stigma, honoring diverse LGBTQIA+ history and stories, and amplifying LGBTQIA+ artist and community voices.

Arts & Culture
12
Center for Women and Their Work Inc

Women & Their Work is a visual and performing arts organization located in Central Austin that serves as a catalyst for new ideas in contemporary art created by women living and working in Texas and beyond.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston Area Women's Center; the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. 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

27 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. 27 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
17/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc: $320,000 · Civil RightsACLU Foundation of Texas IncTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $260,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIG…+2 more: $16,000 · Civil RightsUniversity of Houston: $355,000 · OtherUniversity of HoustonBARRIO DOGS INC: $40,000 · OtherBARRIO DOGS INCCORRIDOR RESCUE INC: $25,000 · OtherIGNITE TEXAS: $50,000 · OtherIGNITE TEXAS+5 more: $52,500 · Other+5 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $268,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTM…TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $35,000 · Community ImprovementTEXAS ORGANIZING…Houston Center for Photography Inc: $95,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Cente…Project Row Houses: $40,000 · Arts & CultureProject Row H…Nameless Sound: $35,000 · Arts & CultureNameless Soun…Lawndale Art & Performance Center: $25,000 · Arts & CultureLawndale Art …COLLAGE THE ART FOR CANCER NETWORK: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCOLLAGE THE A…BRENHAM HERITAGE MUSEUM: $15,000 · Arts & CultureBRENHAM HERIT…Catastrophic Theatre Inc: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCatastrophic …THE BRAUNTEX PERFORMING ARTS THEATER ASS: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePLANNED PARENTHOOD: $120,500 · HealthPLANNED PARE…Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $50,000 · HealthPlanned Pare…The Montrose Center: $46,023 · HealthThe Montrose…The Council on Recovery: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $150 · HealthHouston Area Women's Center: $130,000 · Human ServicesWORKSHOP HOUSTON: $41,175 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $40,000 · Youth Development
Civil Rights$596,000Other$522,500Community Improvement$303,000Arts & Culture$260,000Health$226,673Human Services$130,000Youth Development$81,175

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetACLU Foundation of Texas Inc: $320,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $268,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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
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.

Houston Endowment IncGreater Houston Commu…The Brown Foundation …Shell USA Company Fou…Houston Arts AllianceUnion Pacific Foundat…Anchorage Foundation …Don a Sanders Family …The Simmons FoundationVivian L Smith Founda…Alice Kleberg Reynold…The Dallas Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    10report 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, 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.
    05Through Plinth

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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.

    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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