· Private foundation
Keith & Mattie Stevenson Foundation Sequent Asset Management
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $30,000 |
| HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS | $27,500 |
| MEMORIAL HERMANN FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| STAR OF HOPE MISSION | $25,000 |
| HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $22,500 |
| VICTORY HOUSTON | $20,000 |
| PETS FOR VETS INC | $15,000 |
| GALVESTON BAY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BROOKWOOD COMMUNITY | $15,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| THE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| HOUSTON BOTANIC GARDEN | $10,000 |
| RED COLLAR RESCUE | $10,000 |
| HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of your 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.
38 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- MHMemorial Hermann Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $650k · revenue +158%
- TATexas A&M Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $365k · revenue +90%
- HWHumane World for Animals Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $178k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $25k
- TUTHEATER UNDER THE STARSone grant, 2017 · $3k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON CULLEN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERINGone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
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…
Mission: Connect communities with animals, inspiring action to save wildlife. Vision: Be a leader in the global movement to save wildlife. (Continued on Schedule O) Houston Zoo, Inc. (HZI) strives to be a zoo that practices exemplary…
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,…
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…
To provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a spiritual environment of caring in association with internationally recognized teaching and research.
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,…
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,…
Hermann Park Conservancy is a citizens organization dedicated to the stewardship and improvement of Hermann Park - today and for generations to come.
The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center holds a freestanding 37 bed inpatient facility in the Texas Medical Center that is operated and managed by Houston Hospice.
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Hermann Foundation and the most unlike its peers is People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 50 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 Memorial Hermann Foundation ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds Galveston Bay Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Pets for Vets Inc ↗
- Who funds RED COLLAR RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds VICTORY HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
- Who funds Houston Botanic Garden ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds Mission K9 Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Buffalo Bayou Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds VETERANS ASSISTANCE DOGS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds The Junior League of Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BARONIAL ORDER OF MAGNA CHARTA ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Keith & Mattie Stevenson Foundation Sequent Asset Management 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.
- University of Delaware — 30% 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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