· Private foundation
Marvy Finger Family Foundation
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k212 grants · $734k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $400k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Greater Houston Community Fdtn | $400,000 |
| The Houston Zoo | $250,000 |
| Memorial Park Conservancy | $250,000 |
| Galveston Bay Foundation | $250,000 |
| Hermann Park Conservancy | $200,000 |
| Houston Area Women's Center | $100,000 |
| BridgeYear | $100,000 |
| Da Camera of Houston | $75,000 |
| Briarwood School | $75,000 |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $75,000 |
| The Montrose Center | $75,000 |
| The Menninger Clinic | $55,000 |
| Houston Symphony | $53,000 |
| University of Houston-Bauer College | $50,000 |
| Legacy Community Health | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $255k) 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against -31% for the ones you funded once.
311 repeat relationships — 149 still active in FY2024, 162 since wound down; 96 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $706k 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
Houston Zoo Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $560k · revenue +52%
Hermann Park Conservancy5× · 2020–2024 · $470k · revenue +3%- MPMemorial Park Conservancy Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $380k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- HMHouston Methodist Hospital Foundatione grant, 2020 · $101k
- JFJewish Fed of Greater Houstonone grant, 2022 · $33k
- CFCoalition for Homelessone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
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 advance the conservation of birds and their habitats in the Greater Houston Gulf Coast region by acquiring and maintaining critical habitat as bird sanctuaries, providing education programs and nature experiences, and advocating policy…
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…
The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…
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.
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
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…
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,…
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…
The Houston Parks Board Foundation provides the Houston Parks Board with financial assistance to support operations and park projects.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Ware Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 530 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 Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds Hermann Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds Galveston Bay Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds THE BRIARWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds LEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds Houston Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEYEAR ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Houston Parks Board ↗
- Who funds Houston Area Women's Center ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds The Montrose Center ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MENNINGER CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds BAYOU PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Women's Resource of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds My Connect Community ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Rothko Chapel ↗
- Who funds Undies for Everyone ↗
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 · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Strake Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Jerry C Dearing Family Foundation · The Stanford & Joan Alexander Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation
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 Marvy Finger Family 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.