· Private foundation
Kerr & Jill Taylor Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $51k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PATHWAYS FOR LITTLE FEET | $100,000 |
| COWBOY CHURCH OF BRENHAM | $34,334 |
| 12TH MAN FOUNDATION | $17,000 |
| SERVANTS OF CHRIST INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| GREATER EUROPEAN MISSION | $2,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| GRACE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $620k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +52% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
Pathways for Little Feet8× · 2017–2024 · $620k · revenue +52%- LFLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC2× · 2017–2023 · $13k · revenue +164%
- SOServants of Christ International2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- BFBirney Family Foundationone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -100%
- MFMORRIS FAMILY CENTER FOR LAW AND LIBERTY AT HBUone grant, 2021 · $10k
- TETHE EMERYWEINGER SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $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.
Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
The Grace Message exists to share the hope and encouragement found in the New Covenant message of Gods grace by helping people embrace the finished work of Christ, walk in their new identity, and enjoy freedom from lifeless religion.
Biola university is a private christian university located in southern california. for over 116 years, biola has stood out as an institution grounded on biblically centered education, intentional spiritual development, and career…
Hope media group's (hmg) mission is engaging people to love jesus, serve others, and spread hope.
The mission of baylor university is to educate men and women for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and christian commitment within a caring community.
Samaritan's purse is a nondenominational evangelical christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. since 1970, samaritan's purse has helped meet the needs of people who are victims of war,…
Empowering everyday leaders with courage, tools and hope to ignite a revival of christian leadership.
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…
Equip women and men to be ministers and messengers of God's mission of reconciliation through academic excellence, personal transformation, and leadership development.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Star of Hope Mission and the most unlike its peers is Birney Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
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 46 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 Pathways for Little Feet ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M University 12th Man Foundation ↗
- Who funds LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC ↗
- Who funds Birney Family Foundation ↗
- Who funds Servants of Christ International ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON PRAYER BREAKFAST ↗
- Who funds BRENHAM PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOTERIA INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds Houston Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LOGOS LEADERS OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES - HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds TEXAS FIRE FIGHTERS HOME ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds GRACE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Shell USA Company Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Kerr & Jill Taylor 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.
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