· Private foundation
Madison Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF COVENANT GARDEN | $25,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR TEEN HEALTH | $25,000 |
| COURAGE RANCH | $25,000 |
| UT HARRY RANSOM CENTER | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MS ATHLETICS FOUNDATI | $20,000 |
| SAINT VINCENT DEPAUL PHARMACY | $20,000 |
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, $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 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.
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
How this is measured
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%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $100k
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.
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.
How this is measured
131 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. 131 of the 259 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC ↗
- Who funds PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Madison Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Madison Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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