· Private foundation
Louis K Brandt Foundation
Its FY2019 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 FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k21 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OXFORD UNIV METHODIST CHURCH | $40,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CH-BEAUFORT | $8,000 |
| KID'S MEALS | $5,000 |
| RICE UNIVERSITY | $4,800 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $4,000 |
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | $3,500 |
| LONES STAR FLIGHT MUSEUM | $3,500 |
| CHILD ADVOCATES INC | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CHAPELWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $2,000 |
| KELSEY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| STAR OF HOPE | $2,000 |
| THE ROSE | $1,500 |
| REGENTS SCHOOL | $1,250 |
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 (FY19–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
- WMWilliam Marsh Rice University3× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +104%
- CACHILD ADVOCATES INC2× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +12%
- BTBRIDGES TO LIFE2× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- HWHOUSTON WILDERNESS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +69%
- PEPRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +42%
- ICINTERFAITH COMPASSION MINISTRYone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +18%
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.
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…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
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…
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
Community information now (cinow) provides data, tools, analysis, and training to inform decisions to improve texas communities. cinow's vision is improved lives and decreased disparities through democratized data.
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
To provide cutting-edge cardiac care to diagnose, treat, and prevent cardiovascular diseases.
Central houston civic improvement lnc.'s mission is to ensure the continued vitality and to support development of downtown and the central city that is critical to the continued health and growth of houston.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The 100 Club Inc and the most unlike its peers is William Marsh Rice University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 35 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 William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON WILDERNESS INC ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds Lone Star Flight Museum ↗
- Who funds PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES TO LIFE ↗
- Who funds Kelsey Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COMPASSION MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THACKER MOUNTAIN ↗
- Who funds THE ROSE ↗
- Who funds A D Players ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Coastal Prairie Conservancy ↗
- Who funds THE 100 CLUB 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Strake Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Louis K Brandt 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.