Does Keith & Mattie Stevenson Foundation Sequent Asset Management accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Keith & Mattie Stevenson Foundation Sequent Asset Management?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, MD Anderson Foundation.

Keith & Mattie Stevenson Foundation Sequent Asset Management

Keith & Mattie Stevenson Foundation Sequent Asset Management at a glance

· Private foundation

Keith & Mattie Stevenson Foundation Sequent Asset Management

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$352k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$40k

Largest

01What it funds

0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$971kAnimals$495kEducation$484kHuman Services$252kHousing & Shelter$163kEnvironment$128kScience & Tech$53kCommunity Improvement$44kOther$0

02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k17 grants · $52k
$10k–50k16 grants · $300k

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$4.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION	$40,000
SALVATION ARMY	$30,000
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS	$27,500
STAR OF HOPE MISSION	$25,000
MEMORIAL HERMANN FOUNDATION	$25,000
HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$22,500
VICTORY HOUSTON	$20,000
GALVESTON BAY FOUNDATION	$15,000
PETS FOR VETS INC	$15,000
BROOKWOOD COMMUNITY	$15,000
THE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION	$12,500
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION	$12,500
HOUSTON BOTANIC GARDEN	$10,000
WILL ERWIN HEADACHE FOUNDATION	$10,000
RED COLLAR RESCUE	$10,000

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.7M · 38 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.7M

$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+81%

Still filing today

63%

20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthAnimalsEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitOther

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

MH
Memorial Hermann Foundation
9× · 2017–2025 · $650k · revenue +158%
TA
Texas A&M Foundation
9× · 2017–2025 · $365k · revenue +90%
HW
Humane World for Animals Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $178k · revenue +46%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2018 · $25k
TU
THEATER UNDER THE STARS
one grant, 2017 · $3k
UO
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON CULLEN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
one grant, 2024 · $3k

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.

Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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The Houston Audubon Society

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…

Environment

Houston Zoo Inc

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…

Animals

Memorial Hermann Medical Group

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,…

Health

Harris County Medical Society

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…

—

The Methodist Hospital

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.

Health

Memorial Hermann Health System

Health

Mhs Physicians of Texas

Health

Hermann Park Conservancy

Hermann Park Conservancy is a citizens organization dedicated to the stewardship and improvement of Hermann Park - today and for generations to come.

Environment

The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center

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.

Human Services

Houston Geological Society Foundation

—

William Marsh Rice University

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…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Hermann Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 50 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/26

Grantees still filing

19/26

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$902,500Other$652,447Education$460,000Animals$339,500Housing & Shelter$162,500Environment$137,000Public Benefit$94,500

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

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.

Shell USA Company FoundationTX17.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Keith & Mattie Stevenson Foundation Sequent Asset Management funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Keith & Mattie Stevenson Foundation Sequent Asset Management. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home