· Private foundation
Madison Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $449k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $270k
- $250k+1 grant · $263k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON | $263,470 |
| UH COUGAR PRIDE SCHOLARSHIP | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MS FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| BLAIR E BATSON HOSPITAL FOR CHILDR | $50,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| HOUSTON GRAND OPERA | $46,000 |
| ALLEY THEATRE | $35,000 |
| THE MIND CENTER- UMMC | $25,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR TEEN HEALTH | $25,000 |
| UT HARRY RANSOM CENTER | $25,000 |
| COURAGE RANCH | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF COVENANT GARDEN | $25,000 |
| GULF COAST WOMEN'S CENTER FOR NON V | $20,000 |
| HINDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $20,000 |
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, $564k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 84% 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.
144 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 106 since wound down; 8 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- HGHouston Grand Opera Association Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +28%
- ATALLEY THEATRE8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +107%
- CUCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2021 · $750k · revenue +118%
Funded once
- OBOak Bend Hospital Foundationone grant, 2017 · $500k
- TATexas A&M Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $105k · revenue +49%
- FBFORT BEND HISTORY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -56%
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.
The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
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…
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.
The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
CAMH presents extraordinary and thought-provoking arts programming and exhibitions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Hermann Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Reining Strength Therapeutic Horsemanship. 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 34 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
131 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. 131 of the 259 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ALLEY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds LUNCHES OF LOVE ↗
- Who funds Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc ↗
- Who funds SIEGEL RARE NEUROIMMUNE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF COVENT GARDEN THE ROYAL BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR TEEN HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REINING STRENGTH THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC ↗
- Who funds PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
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: The George Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation · The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Marek Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · Fort Bend Junior Service League · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services
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 Madison Charitable Foundation Inc 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.