· Private foundation
Kittsie & Charlie Thomas 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $112k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $63,500 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $26,000 |
| PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY SEAVER COLLEGE | $13,500 |
| STAGES | $12,500 |
| HOUSTON SPCA | $10,000 |
| THE BROOKWOOD COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| MILLER OUTDOOR THEATRE | $10,000 |
| INTERFAITH MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| MONOMOY COMMUNITY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| GROUNDWIRE MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| NMDP (BE THE MATCH) | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| RIVER OAKS BAPTIST SCHOOL | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.
37 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 5 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
The Houston Food Bank8× · 2017–2024 · $328k · revenue +107%- AFAIDS FOUNDATION HOUSTON INC5× · 2017–2021 · $70k · revenue +179%
- PUPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $64k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- CMCHAMPION MINISTRIES INC AKA GROUNDWIREone grant, 2021 · $25k
- ADAgape Development Ministriesgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +107%
- BBROOKWOODone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
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.
As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
Houston Hospice provides uncompromising, compassionate end-of-life care to patients and families in our community. Houston Hospice cares for patients from all races, ethnicities, religious beliefs, and payor classes, including those with…
The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…
The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.
Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
Fostering family dba the riverside project is a 501(c)(3) public charity that on behalf of houston's children and their families, brings together organizations and passionate people working as one to help families heal and children thrive.
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.
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…
How this is measured
44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 72 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 Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds AIDS FOUNDATION HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Joy Development School ↗
- Who funds Stages ↗
- Who funds Caring Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds Agape Development Ministries ↗
- Who funds Houston Area Women's Center ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds The Sanctuary Foster Care Services ↗
- Who funds Christian Community Service Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MONOMOY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NMDP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STRONG MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds Elijah Rising ↗
- Who funds WAITING UNDER THE WILLOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hermann Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Southern Smoke Foundation ↗
- Who funds TREES OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds VITA LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INFANT FORMULA FOR EMERGENCIES ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Strake Foundation · ESB3 Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Houston Endowment Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kittsie & Charlie Thomas Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kittsie & Charlie Thomas Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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