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Memorial Hermann Community Benefit Corporation

To implement solutions that promote good health for the individual, the health system and the community.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

Health$5.3MCommunity Improvement$375kPhilanthropy$234kCrime & Legal$215kEnvironment$44kRecreation & Sports$35kHuman Services$20kOther$275k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $1,364,505 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,469,505 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $105,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $77k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MHS Physicians of Texas$1,056,289
Christ Clinic$100,000
South County Community Clinic$75,000
San Jose Clinic$50,000
Fit Houston Inc$35,000
Houston Parks Board$22,216
Wesley Community Center Inc$20,000
Memorial Hermann Medical Group$6,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $20k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Wesley Community Center Inc: $20k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.2M · 11 repeat orgs$234k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
3

Total granted

$6.2M
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
-1%

Still filing today

91%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • MH
    Memorial Hermann Health System
    5× · 2017–2022 · $2.4M · revenue +89%
  • MP
    MHS Physicians of Texas
    3× · 2023–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +40%
  • HP
    Houston Parks Board
    7× · 2019–2025 · $225k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • TA
    TEXAS A&M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • SC
    SEVA CLINIC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -1%
  • HH
    HOUSTON HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue -62%

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.

1
Harris County Medical Society

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…

2
HealthTexas Provider Network

To deliver the highest value patient experience through quality, safety, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness, enhanced by medical education and research in collaboration with Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
3
Hillcrest Family Health Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
4
Hillcrest Physician Services

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
5
South Central Houston Action Council Inc

The organization provides medical services in the form of primary and preventive care to underserved and underinsured residents of harris county.

6
Spring Branch Community Health Center

To increase the number of healthy families in our community by providing high quality, comprehensive health services.

Health
7
Texas Heart Medical Group

To provide cutting-edge cardiac care to diagnose, treat, and prevent cardiovascular diseases.

Health
8
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth

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
9
The Methodist Hospital

To provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a spiritual environment of caring in association with internationally recognized teaching and research.

Health
10
Healing Hands Ministries Inc

Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.

Health
11
Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
12
Houston Business Coalition On Health

Serving houston employers we create value-based healthcare benefits of the future. (see expanded description).

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mhs Physicians of Texas and the most unlike its peers is Seva Clinic. 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Memorial Hermann Health System — $2,387,165 · HealthMemorial Hermann Health SystemMHS Physicians of Texas — $2,275,298 · HealthMHS Physicians of TexasSOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY CLINIC — $225,000 · HealthMemorial Hermann Medical Group — $201,012 · Health+3 more — $190,000 · HealthWOODLANDS RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY INC — $375,000 · Community ImprovementInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston — $139,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER HOUSTON — $75,000 · OtherSAN JOSE CLINIC — $50,000 · OtherTEXAS A&M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER — $10,000 · OtherHouston Parks Board — $225,017 · PhilanthropyHOUSTON HEALTH FOUNDATION — $8,550 · PhilanthropyChildren At Risk — $215,000 · Crime & LegalUrban Harvest Inc — $43,557 · EnvironmentFit Houston Inc — $35,000 · Recreation & SportsWESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS — $20,000 · Human Services
Health$5,278,475Community Improvement$375,000Other$274,500Philanthropy$233,567Crime & Legal$215,000Environment$43,557Recreation & Sports$35,000Human Services$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMemorial Hermann Health System — $2,387,165 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMHS Physicians of Texas — $2,275,298 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetWOODLANDS RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY INC — $375,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHouston Parks Board — $225,017 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY CLINIC — $225,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetChildren At Risk — $215,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetMemorial Hermann Medical Group — $201,012 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston — $139,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTOMAGWA MINISTRIES INC DBA TOMAGWA HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES — $80,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetUrban Harvest Inc — $43,557 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHOUSTON HEALTH FOUNDATION — $8,550 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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 FoundationTX20.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · Episcopal Health Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · Heart to Heart International Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Memorial Hermann Health System · National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics Inc · Americares Foundation Inc · American Heart Association Inc · Direct Relief · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Memorial Hermann Community Benefit Corporation 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Memorial Hermann Community Benefit Corporation?

    Find your warmest path to Memorial Hermann Community Benefit Corporation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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