How much does May Kay Houck Foundation give?

May Kay Houck Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $129,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does May Kay Houck Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (28%), Human Services (13%), Health (13%).

Who are May Kay Houck Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mana-Sota Lighthouse for the Blind Inc ($101k), The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc ($101k), Genesee Valley Conservancy Inc ($84k).

Does May Kay Houck Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does May Kay Houck 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 May Kay Houck Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rochester Area Community Foundation, Cloudsplitter Foundation, Ge Aerospace Foundation.

Where is May Kay Houck Foundation based?

May Kay Houck Foundation is based in FL.

May Kay Houck Foundation

May Kay Houck Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

May Kay Houck 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.

$129k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$301kHuman Services$145kHealth$144kAnimals$84kHousing & Shelter$66kReligion$48kFood & Nutrition$47kEducation$40kOther$0

02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k13 grants · $47k
$10k–50k7 grants · $82k

$7,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GENESEE VALLEY CONSERVANCY	$15,000
Individual grant recipient	$14,000
FINGER LAKES LAND TRUST	$13,000
COBBLESTONE FOUNDATIONS	$10,000
REACH OF HAYWOOD COUNTY INC	$10,000
LIGHTHOUSE VISION LOSS EDUCATION CT	$10,000
CANANDAIGUA LAKE WATERSHED ASSOC	$10,000
FOODLINK	$8,000
HAYWOOD HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$7,000
Individual grant recipient	$7,000
SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC	$5,000
MOHAWK HUDSON LAND CONSERVANCY	$5,000
WILD WINGS INC	$5,000
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY	$4,000
VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION	$2,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $172k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.0M · 32 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +90% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%

+22%

Still filing today

81%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionAnimalsInternationalOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

ML
MANA-SOTA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $101k · revenue +42%
TF
The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $101k · revenue +172%
GV
Genesee Valley Conservancy Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $84k · revenue ×32

Funded once

AA
AIM AT MELANOMA
one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +5%
TR
THE RESCUE INN INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +88%
BA
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB SARASOTA CO
one grant, 2017 · $4k

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.

04Its field

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 Central New York Land Trust Inc

The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.

Environment

Genesee Land Trust Inc

Genesee Land Trust preserves and protects natural lands and waterways that enhance the quality of life in the Greater Rochester region - providing wildlife habitat, locally grown food, and connections to nature.

Environment

Lake George Land Conservancy Inc

Dedicated to permanently preserve the natural, scenic and recreational resources of the Lake George Basin.

Environment

Woodstock Land Conservancy Inc

Acquire land and easements to preserve and enhance the open lands, forests, water resources, scenic areas and historical sights of the Woodstock, NY area. Steward protected lands and offer educational programs and events regarding nature…

Environment

Adirondack North Country Association Inc

Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties

Food & Nutrition

Land Conservancy of Ridgefield Inc

The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…

Environment

Westchester Land Trust Inc

The primary mission of the Westchester Land Trust is to conserve, maintain and enhance the natural environment and resources of Westchester County and eastern Putnam County. The Trust acquires interests in land exhibiting important natural…

Environment

The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.

Human Services

Lakes Region Conservation Trust

The mission of the Organization is the conservation of the natural resources of the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, the preservation of wildlife habitat, the stewardship of lands that define the character of the region and its quality of…

Environment

Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment

Adirondack League Club

To manage the preservation and conservation of an approximate 50,000 acre preserve.

Recreation & Sports

Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation

The mission of the adirondack center for loon conservation is to inspire passion for and promote the conservation of adirondack loons as an environmental sentinel.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adirondack Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Mote Marine Laboratory Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 49 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

34/34

Grantees still filing

32/34

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$385,000Environment$245,000Human Services$193,500Health$139,000Food & Nutrition$47,000Animals$37,500International$33,000

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.

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.

Rochester Area Community FoundationNY20.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Cloudsplitter Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Ibm International Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · The Nature Conservancy · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization May Kay Houck Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from May Kay Houck Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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