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MD Anderson 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $557k
- $50k–250k43 grants · $4.2M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Baylor College of Medicine | $360,000 |
| Theatre Under The Stars Inc | $275,000 |
| William Marsh Rice University | $250,000 |
| Memorial Assistance Ministries | $250,000 |
| Chinquapin Preparatory School | $250,000 |
| Houston Grand Opera Association Inc | $235,000 |
| Teach for America Inc | $225,000 |
| KIPP Texas Inc | $200,000 |
| Stoney Creek Foundation | $200,000 |
| YMCA of Greater Houston | $200,000 |
| Methodist Hospital Foundation | $200,000 |
| Summerhouse Houston | $160,000 |
| Camp Allen-Camp and Conference Center | $150,000 |
| The Brookwood Community Inc | $150,000 |
| New Hope Housing Inc | $140,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of MD Anderson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 96% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
115 repeat relationships — 68 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 7 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $722k 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
- BCBaylor College of Medicine6× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +67%
- HGHouston Grand Opera Association Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +28%
- HSHouston Symphony Society7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +43%
Funded once
- CFCoalition for the Homeless of Houston Harris Countyone grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue -7%
- TCTexas Children's Hospitalgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue +47%
- KRKelsey Research Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +81%
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 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.
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 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…
Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…
See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…
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.
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,…
American Leadership Forum (ALF) brings together, in classes, leaders with diverse perspectives so they can build relationships, learn to dialogue and respectfully differ, and work together for the good of our community.
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.
See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.
Houston MediaSource aspires to be the community media center for the City of Houston. HMS provides public access to media platforms that promote citizen engagement, protect the right to free expression, and provide opportunities to advance…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston Community Health Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mexico Medical Missions. 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 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
144 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. 144 of the 187 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 Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds Camp Allen Camp & Conference Center ↗
- Who funds ALLEY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area ↗
- Who funds YES Prep Public Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds New Hope Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds KIPP Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds Houston Area Women's Center ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Theatre Under the Stars Inc ↗
- Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston's Amazing Place Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PURSUIT ↗
- Who funds CHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds Stages ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science ↗
- Who funds Center for Houston's Future Inc ↗
- Who funds Camp For All Foundation ↗
- Who funds STONEY CREEK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BakerRipley ↗
- Who funds SUMMERHOUSE HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Good Reason Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds The Westview School Inc ↗
- Who funds Coalition for the Homeless of Houston Harris County ↗
- Who funds Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
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: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Strake Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The William Stamps Farish Fund · John P McGovern Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · Shell USA Company 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 MD Anderson 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.
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.
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