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Kalman 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST CLARE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN BUILDING FUND | $100,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $15,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SAN JOSE CLINIC | $5,000 |
| ST CLARE OF ASSISSI SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| HOUSTON COALITION FOR LIFE | $5,000 |
| ST MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| UT HEALTH HOUSTON | $5,000 |
| DUCHESNE ANNUAL FUND | $5,000 |
| FAITH IN PRACTICE | $2,500 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $2,500 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CROSS ACADEMICS-CARDINALS CIRCLE | $500 |
| FEEDING THE LONE STAR | $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 (FY17–19, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 56% 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.
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 +83% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 8 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC7× · 2019–2025 · $126k · revenue +17%
- CLCATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE2× · 2023–2024 · $125k · revenue +91%
- HCHOUSTON COALITION FOR LIFE6× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- CRCRISTO REY JESUITone grant, 2018 · $10k
- CRCRISTO REYone grant, 2021 · $10k
- DADUCHESNE ACADEMYone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
El Buen Samaritano an outreach ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas serving the Latino community of Central Texas is committed to recognizing the dignity of all by ensuring access to health care education and essential needs that…
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
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.
To provide essential and next-step services to restore hope and help end homelessness in houston.
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."
See Schedule OFort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels provides comprehensive services, including Meals on Wheels, congregate meals, transportation, case management, health screenings, information and referral services, recreation, and more. Our…
See Schedule O.Katy Christian Ministries (KCM) is a social service non-profit that serves the Katy/West Houston area. KCM's Social Service Department offers emergency financial assistance, a Food Pantry, a Crisis Center that houses the…
Address food and housing insecurity for Austin-area low income families.
The mission of Target Hunger is to alleviate hunger and its root causes in the Houston neighborhoods we serve. Target Hunger is on the front lines of hunger every day through its food distribution system that includes multiple food…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Central Kitchen Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cuatro Por Venezuela. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 54 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON COALITION FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Nativity Academy ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds CASA JUAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Elijah Rising ↗
- Who funds CUATRO POR VENEZUELA ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED ↗
- Who funds WEST HOUSTON ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN PRACTICE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN 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: Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Houston Food Bank · A R Tony and Maria J Sanchez Family Foundation · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc · Scanlan 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 Kalman 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.
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.