· Private foundation
Marek Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k81 grants · $310k
- $10k–50k58 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k22 grants · $2.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON | $1,034,363 |
| COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS | $230,000 |
| THE WORKFAITH CONNECTION | $210,000 |
| ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| CRISTO REY JESUIT COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL OF HOUSTON | $150,000 |
| KIPP TEXAS | $125,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON | $110,000 |
| MD ANDERSON | $100,000 |
| HARRIS HEALTH STRATEGIC FUND | $100,000 |
| TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| ARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| UT HEALTH HOUSTON | $100,000 |
| WORK TEXAS TRAINING CENTER | $100,000 |
| GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $85,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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 +20% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
287 repeat relationships: 113 still active in FY2025, 174 since wound down; 48 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $667k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SOSociety of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston7× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +14%
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS9× · 2017–2025 · $830k · revenue +92%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON9× · 2017–2025 · $482k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- TCTHE CATHOLIC ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION OF GALVESTON-HOUone grant, 2021 · $4.0M
- 1O144 OTHER CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONSone grant, 2017 · $549k
- SVST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $218k
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.
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.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
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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…
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.
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How this is measured
277 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. 277 of the 549 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 Society of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston ↗
- Who funds THE WORKFAITH CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds Center for Houston's Future Inc ↗
- Who funds KIPP Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds SANTA MARIA HOSTEL INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC ↗
- Who funds THE FURNITURE BANK ↗
- Who funds Work Texas Training Center ↗
- Who funds ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds CRC Retreat Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds Cristo Rey Jesuit Houston Foundation ↗
- Who funds TEXAS EDUCATION WORKS ↗
- Who funds KIPP Inc dba Knowledge is Power Program Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON ACHIEVEMENT PLACE ↗
- Who funds DALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Holy Name Retreat Center ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area ↗
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: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Strake Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Brown Foundation Inc · Houston Endowment Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Elkins Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · United Way of Greater Houston · MD Anderson Foundation · The Methodist Hospital
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marek Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marek Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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