· Private foundation
McCrea 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TROUT UNLIMITED | $55,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $35,000 |
| CRISTO REY JESUIT COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL OF HOUSTON | $25,000 |
| BOCA GRAND HEALTHCLINIC FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| WESTMINSTER SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS | $15,000 |
| BO'S PLACE | $15,000 |
| AVONDALE HOUSE | $15,000 |
| ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| MOUNTAIN HUMANE | $10,000 |
| PROCTOR ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| BOCA GRANDE ART CENTER | $10,000 |
| BARRIER ISLAND PARKS SOCIETY INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +27% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 8 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- HSHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS5× · 2019–2025 · $428k · revenue +45%
- TUTROUT UNLIMITED INC3× · 2023–2025 · $131k · revenue +75%
- TCTexas Children's Hospital7× · 2019–2025 · $115k · revenue +48%
Funded once
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%- APAMAZING PLACEone grant, 2023 · $20k
- TBTEXAS BIOMEDICAL FORUMgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +30%
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.
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…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
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…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Hillwood estate, museum & garden's (hillwood) mission is to share the renowned art collections, exceptional gardens and related public and educational programs with a wide and diverse audience. since its opening, hillwood has served…
To integrate art into the lives of people, fostering imagination, stimulating thought, and creating personally rewarding experiences.
Mission: Connect communities with animals, inspiring action to save wildlife. Vision: Be a leader in the global movement to save wildlife. (Continued on Schedule O) Houston Zoo, Inc. (HZI) strives to be a zoo that practices exemplary…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
To inspire a better and more beautiful world by sharing edward bok's legacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rx Art Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Schull Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 81 of the 113 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
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 SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROCTOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC ↗
- Who funds Bo's Place ↗
- Who funds RX ART INC ↗
- Who funds Avondale House Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE ↗
- Who funds BARRIER ISLAND PARKS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Awaken INC ↗
- Who funds Teton County Search & Rescue Foundation ↗
- Who funds Dixon Gallery and Gardens ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GASPARILLA ISL CONSER & IMPROVE ASSN ↗
- Who funds HIGHER GROUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UKANDU ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JOHANN FUST LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BIOMEDICAL FORUM ↗
- Who funds MCNAY ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds EBINGER SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUNCOAST HUMANE SOCIETYINC ↗
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 · The Brown Foundation Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Joanne E Masin Foundation · McDowell Foundation · Vick Foundation Inc · Linda & Barry Allen Foundation · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600
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 McCrea 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.
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% 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.