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Marta and Stephen Pate 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.

$351k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 6
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$3.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Marta and Stephen Pate Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$351k14%
FY20236$346k67%
FY20223$318k0%
FY20216$419k83%
FY20203$118k33%
FY20192$109k0%
FY20184$169kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$1.5MReligion$150kEducation$118kHuman Services$20kYouth Development$15kFood & Nutrition$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Marta and Stephen Pate Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Texas Children's Hospital$600,00060%
The Methodist Hospital Foundation$600,00030%
Woodlands Religious Community Inc$50,00010%
Baylor University$50,00010%
The John Cooper School$48,20040%
Memorial Hermann Foundation$46,62850%
The Woodlands Christian Academy$20,00020%
Montgomery County Youth Services$15,00020%
Love Fosters Hope$10,00012%
Houston Area Women's Center$10,00010%
Meals on Wheels$10,00018%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($370k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marta and Stephen Pate Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $600,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Methodist Hospital Foundation: $600,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWoodlands Religious Community Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBaylor University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe John Cooper School: $48,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMemorial Hermann Foundation: $46,628 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Woodlands Christian Academy: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMontgomery County Youth Services: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLove Fosters Hope: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHouston Area Women's Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMeals on Wheels: $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Shell USA Company FoundationTX14.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Sgl Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Marta and Stephen Pate Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Marta and Stephen Pate Family Foundation

How much does Marta and Stephen Pate Family Foundation give?
Marta and Stephen Pate Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $350,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Marta and Stephen Pate Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (83%), Religion (8%), Education (6%).
Who are Marta and Stephen Pate Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Texas Children's Hospital ($600k), The Methodist Hospital Foundation ($600k), Woodlands Religious Community Inc ($50k).
Does Marta and Stephen Pate Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Marta and Stephen Pate Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Marta and Stephen Pate Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, Sgl Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation.
Where is Marta and Stephen Pate Family Foundation based?
Marta and Stephen Pate Family Foundation is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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