· Private foundation
K & E Fund Inc
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $11,590 |
| STAR OF HOPE MISSION | $11,590 |
| SHRINERS CHILDREN'S | $10,000 |
| PRISON FELLOWSHIP | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $5,000 |
| THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $1,500 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $1,500 |
| PARENTS DEFENDING EDUCATION | $1,000 |
| HOUSTON CHRISTIAN BROADCASTERS INC | $1,000 |
| HOUSTON PREGNANCY HELP CENTER | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY | $1,000 |
| TRUE THE VOTE | $750 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $600 |
| MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $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 (FY25–25, $1k) 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 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of K & E Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 56% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 67% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +20% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 9 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN3× · 2019–2025 · $21k · revenue +126%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC3× · 2019–2025 · $11k · revenue +99%
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- TBThe Blue Bird Circleone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +5%
- IMInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houstongraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +179%
- ACAMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICEone grant, 2019 · $1k
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.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
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 texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
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Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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 43 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 41 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 STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds Houston Christian Broadcasters Inc ↗
- Who funds The Periwinkle Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Blue Bird Circle ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds CANCARE INC ↗
- Who funds DEFENDING EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds TITUS COUNTY CARES INC DBA TITUS COUNTY CARES ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds Houston Pregnancy Help Center Inc ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICE-MIDWEST INC ↗
- Who funds TRUE THE VOTE INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ALS ASSOCIATION-TEXAS CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds University of Houston Foundation ↗
- Who funds CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS FOUNDATION OF HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MARS HILL PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Servant Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment 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 K & E Fund Inc 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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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