· Private foundation
Kelye and Cynthia Stites Family 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMPASS CHURCH | $100,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $50,000 |
| THE GATEHOUSE | $25,000 |
| NEW HORIZONS OF NORTH TEXAS | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC | $15,000 |
| MATT HARBIN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
12 repeat relationships — 5 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- TGTHE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION8× · 2018–2025 · $202k · revenue +24% · 85% of their budget
- GBGOD BEHIND BARS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +59%
- NINHNTX INC3× · 2023–2025 · $55k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- TJThe Junior League of Houston Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +173%
- SBSIVELLS BEND CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $6k
- G2GUZMAN 23one grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.
To make evangelical Christian literature available to all nations so that people may come to faith and maturity in Jesus Christ
The purpose of Global Childrens Network is to provide training, ministry resources and networking opportunities to equip church leaders & parents around the world as they lead children & youth to follow Jesus as next generation disciples…
The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…
To grant wishes to and otherwise act for the benefit of children suffering from terminal or life theatening illness or disease.
The H.O.W. Center provides a safe and structured living environment for individuals recovering from alcoholism and addiction while they gain the skills they need to live independently and successfully.
CityChurch Network is a multi-denominational, multi-ethnic, relational network of churches working together for the good of our cities through extraordinary prayer, leader equipping, and collective impact
Provides housing and spiritual development for Christians reintegrating into society upon exiting the criminal justice system.
Homes, health, and hope for children in need. to specifically deal with meeting the many needs of those orphaned children left behind.
Children at heart ministries is a family of christian ministries that exists to honor god and build a better world by serving children and strengthening families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Enrichment Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wishes Wonders and Kids. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 21 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 THE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GOD BEHIND BARS INC ↗
- Who funds NHNTX INC ↗
- Who funds WISHES WONDERS AND KIDS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF THE NATIONS ↗
- Who funds LAUNCH GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds The Junior League of Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS 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: National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Kelye and Cynthia Stites Family 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.