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· Public charity
Memorial Hermann Community Benefit
Test and measure innovative solutions that promote good health for the individual, the health system and the community.
$743k
Granted FY2023
5
Grants
1
Communities
$517k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2023.
Health$1.9MCommunity Improvement$300kPhilanthropy$186kCrime & Legal$100kEnvironment$44kOther$165k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
urbantomagwauninsuredhealthcarechildren
2020
careuninsuredpatienttomagwadentalhealthcarechildren
2021
urbantomagwauninsuredcarehealthcare
2022
carechildren
2023
children
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 5 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $517k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
- MHS Physicians of Texas$517,415
- Interfaith of The Woodlands$150,000
- Children At Risk Inc$25,000
- University of Texas HSC Partners$25,000
- WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC$19,730
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 13%. 86% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 8 repeat orgs$626k to everyone else
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
8
2
Total granted
$2.1M
$84k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+63%
+104%
Still filing today
100%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $542k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther
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
- MHMemorial Hermann Health System4× · 2019–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +41%
- IOInterfaith of the Woodlands3× · 2019–2023 · $300k · revenue +2%
- MHMemorial Hermann Medical Group3× · 2020–2022 · $195k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- SCSouth County Community Clinicone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +13%
- HHHOUSTON HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +104%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Memorial Hermann Community Benefit
Test and measure innovative solutions that promote good health for the individual, the health system and the community.
Social Science
2
Harris County Medical Society
Harris County Medical Society serves as a professional organization for over 13,000 physicians.
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3
Texas Health Physicians Group
A FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATION WHOSE MISSION IS TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF the people in the communities it serves, regarless of thier ability to pay.
Health
4
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital
A faith-based organization whose mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves regardless of their ability to pay.
Health
5
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital
A faith-based organization whose mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves regardless of their ability to pay.
Health
6
Houston MediaSource
Houston MediaSource provides public access cable television programming for the City of Houston.
Arts & Culture
7
Trees for Houston
Trees For Houston grows, plants and maintains trees throughout the greater Houston area.
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8
Healing Hands Ministries Inc
Hhm is a healthcare organization that provides medical, pediatric, women health, dental, vision, dietician, infectious disease prevention and treatment, and mental health services in dallas, tx and surrounding areas.
Health
9
Memorial Park Conservancy Inc
The mission of the Memorial Park Conservancy (MPC) is to restore, preserve and enhance Memorial Park for the enjoyment of all Houstonians, today and tomorrow.
Environment
10
Houston Botanic Garden
Enriching life through discovery, education, and conservation of the natural environment.
Environment
11
Hermann Park Conservancy
The Conservancy enhances and maintains Hermann Park (one of Houston's most historic and popular green spaces), manages impressive renovations of the Park, and is responsible for extensive reforestation efforts and maintenance initiatives…
Environment
12
Hillcrest Family Health Center
Faith based physician clinic providing exemplary patient care, medical education, medical research and community service to residents of the Central Texas region since 1994.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mhs Physicians of Texas and the most unlike its peers is Houston Health Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Health$1,936,677Community Improvement$300,000Philanthropy$186,351Other$164,500Crime & Legal$100,000Environment$43,557
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 Memorial Hermann Health System ↗
- Who funds MHS Physicians of Texas ↗
- Who funds Interfaith of the Woodlands ↗
- Who funds Memorial Hermann Medical Group ↗
- Who funds WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds Children at Risk Inc ↗
- Who funds South County Community Clinic ↗
- Who funds TOMAGWA HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds URBAN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX14.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · Shell USA Company Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation Memorial Hermann Community Benefit 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: South County Community Clinic.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 752634623 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on South County Community Clinic, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 12% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Memorial Hermann Community Benefit?
Find your warmest path to Memorial Hermann Community Benefit through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines