· Private foundation
Melbern G & Susanne M Glasscock Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k17 grants · $405k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $700k
- $250k+2 grants · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RICE UNIV GLASSCOCK SCHOOL OF CONTINUING STUDIES | $325,000 |
| HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE | $275,000 |
| THE METHODIST HOSPITAL | $200,000 |
| HOUSTON BOTANIC GARDEN | $200,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS SAN JACINTO CO | $100,000 |
| THE BROOKWOOD COMMUNITY | $100,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER HOUSTON | $50,000 |
| FAYETTE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON | $40,000 |
| CAMP FOR ALL | $25,000 |
| HOUSTON SYMPHONY SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| NEW HOPE HOUSING | $25,000 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| WIKIMEDIA ENDOWMENT | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN FESTIVAL FOR THE ARTS (AFA) | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $246k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Houston Museum of Natural Science9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +33%- YPYES Prep Public Schools Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $500k · revenue +138%
- TMTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON8× · 2017–2025 · $390k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- MMMATCH Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houstongraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +66%
- TWTHE WOMEN'S HOMEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +38%
- HGHouston Grand Opera Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +28%
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.
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.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
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 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…
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.
CAMH presents extraordinary and thought-provoking arts programming and exhibitions.
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…
See Schedule OHouston Arts Alliance (HAA) is a local arts and culture organization whose principal work is implementing the City of Houston's vision, values, and goals for its arts grantmaking and civic art investments. HAA conducts work…
Arts Connect Houston unites with the greater Houston community to ensure access to high-quality arts education in creative writing, dance, music, theater, and the visual arts for every student, beginning with Houston ISD.
Harmonia Stellarum is an ensemble of professional vocalists and instrumentalists specialized in historically informed performance practice who seek to inspire, entertain, and enlighten audiences with meaningful, historically informed…
To create theater that challenges its audience to think and its artists to grow. We accomplish this by presenting an articulate and compelling product in an intimate setting, creating employment for Houston-based artists, and memorable…
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 53 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
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- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
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- Who funds New Hope Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds MATCH Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S HOME ↗
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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.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Powell Foundation · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · John P McGovern Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · MD Anderson Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Melbern G & Susanne M Glasscock Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Melbern G & Susanne M Glasscock Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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