· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kelye and Cynthia Stites Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kelye and Cynthia Stites Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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