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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$5.4MReligion$515kRecreation & Sports$260kCrime & Legal$170kFood & Nutrition$44kEducation$25kHuman Services$20k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $1,364,505, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,469,505 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $105,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
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.

04Its field

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.

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…

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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mhs Physicians of Texas; 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 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. 15 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetFit Houston Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetHOUSTON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $8,550 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Houston Commu…The Methodist HospitalEpiscopal Health Foun…United Way of Greater…Heart to Heart Intern…Shell USA Company Fou…Memorial Hermann Heal…National Association …Americares Foundation…American Heart Associ…Direct ReliefNational Philanthropi…
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Memorial Hermann Community Benefit Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Memorial Hermann Community Benefit Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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