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Methodist Hospital Group

The organizations in METHODIST HOSPITAL GROUP (group) (see statement 1) are part of the methodist hospital, doing business as houston methodist hospital, whose mission is: 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…

$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$73MEducation$642kCommunity Improvement$230kRecreation & Sports$149kReligion$146kHuman Services$122kInternational$94kScience & Tech$77kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 32 grants below total $1,566,612 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,400,691 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $834,079 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $103k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $295k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.2M
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.6B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON HARRIS COUNTY PSYCH CTR$1,168,880
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$47,000
PEARL FINCHER MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS$39,870
MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK$25,500
RICE UNIVERSITY$20,500
INTERFAITH OF THE WOODLANDS$20,390
THE WOODLANDS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$19,034
MAGNOLIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$19,000
TOMBALL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$16,500
CENTRAL FORT BEND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$13,585
FORT BEND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$13,285
EAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY INC$10,205
THE WOODLANDS ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION$10,005
THE FINEST AND BRAVEST FOUNDATION$10,000
HOUSTON NORTHWEST CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$10,000
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 (FY18–24, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SISTERS HELPING SISTERS FISHING TOURNAMENTS: $16k → 14%FORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER: $6k → 8%FORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER: $6k → 8%ELIJAH RISING: $6k → 16%Fort Bend County Women's Center: $6k → 8%FORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER: $6k → 8%YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON (WOODLANDS FAMILY YMCA): $6k → 16%LEADERSHIP MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $8k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON: $11k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON: $10k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON: $17k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON: $17k → 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$74M · 32 repeat orgs$466k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
17

Total granted

$74M
$321k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+48%

Still filing today

81%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicine
    2× · 2018–2019 · $27M · revenue +49%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $338k · revenue +33%
  • WR
    WOODLANDS RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $139k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • LC
    LEE COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +87%
  • CS
    CY-FAIR SPORTS ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +31%
  • CR
    CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL OF HOUSTON INC
    one grant, 2020 · $32k

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…

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2
Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.

Community Improvement
3
Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce

The Chamber's mission is to provide leadership that facilitates the creation of a prosperous regional economy and results in effective advocacy for its members.

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4
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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5
Texas Association of Business

As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…

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6
Houston Independent School District Foundation

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…

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7
American Leadership Forum Houston Gulf Coast Chapter

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.

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8
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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9
Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

Advocate for the economic and civic interests of the hispanic business community.

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10
Harris County Hospital District Foundation

The mission of the Harris County Hospital District Foundation is to enhance the broad healthcare mission of the Harris Health System by soliciting and raising funds for programs and increasing the community's awareness of the Harris Health…

Health
11
Galveston Regional Chamber of Commerce

To promote and advocate for business

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12
Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce

To act as the voice of business, articulating a business perspective and advocating policies supported by the fort worth general business community.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Children's Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Reining Strength Therapeutic Horsemanship. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number31%6%<5yr18%2%5–10yr21%21%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr7%32%35–55yr7%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value31%0%<5yr18%0%5–10yr21%59%10–20yr16%0%20–35yr7%1%35–55yr7%40%55yr+

The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/63
the rest of the field
19%
5,114/27,543

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.

04the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 62 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/57
Grantees still filing
38/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HARRIS COUNTY CLINICAL SERVICES INC — $41,600,932 · HealthHARRIS COUNTY CLINICAL SERVICES INC+6 more — $395,832 · HealthBaylor College of Medicine — $27,219,492 · EducationBaylor College of Medicine+7 more — $496,826 · EducationUT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON HARRIS COUNTY PSYCH CTR — $3,942,094 · Other+27 more — $681,107 · OtherWOODLANDS RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY INC — $139,460 · Community ImprovementGreater Houston Area Women's Chamber of Commerce — $20,200 · Community ImprovementMANNED SPACE FLIGHT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementTHE WOODLANDS AREA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP — $7,500 · Community Improvement+1 more — $6,000 · Community ImprovementYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area — $59,508 · Human ServicesFORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER INC SOS/SHELTER-OUTREACH-SOLUTIONS — $23,150 · Human ServicesTEXAS NEW COMMUNITY ALLIANCE — $22,000 · Human ServicesSisters Helping Sisters Fishing Tournaments — $16,030 · Human ServicesEAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY — $10,205 · Human ServicesLEADERSHIP MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC — $8,250 · Human ServicesSociety of Samaritans Inc — $6,500 · Human ServicesElijah Rising — $6,429 · Human ServicesINSPIRATION RANCH INC — $5,500 · Human ServicesHouston Museum of Natural Science — $56,750 · Arts & CultureCypress Creek Fine Art Association — $39,870 · Arts & CultureTEXAS MASTER CHORALE INC — $19,000 · Arts & CultureWoodlands Waterway Arts Council Inc — $5,665 · Arts & CultureThe Hope Endowment — $87,500 · International
Health$41,996,764Education$27,716,318Other$4,623,201Community Improvement$183,160Human Services$157,572Arts & Culture$121,285International$87,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $27,219,492 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $338,202 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAR CREEK EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $245,538 over 3y, 27% of budgetWOODLANDS RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY INC — $139,460 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCY-FAIR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $106,720 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetThe Hope Endowment — $87,500 over 5y, 14% of budgetLEE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetSouth Montgomery County Woodlands Chamber of Commerce — $63,074 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetFORT BEND YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION — $60,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area — $59,508 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC — $57,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science — $56,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCY-FAIR SPORTS ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFORT BEND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $45,225 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCypress Creek Fine Art Association — $39,870 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetNORTH HARRIS MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT — $38,333 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $38,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTomball Education Foundation — $36,700 over 2y, 26% of budgetProject Blue — $30,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetCY-FAIR HOUSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $26,685 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetFORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER INC SOS/SHELTER-OUTREACH-SOLUTIONS — $23,150 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Woodlands Rotary Club Foundation — $22,535 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetTEXAS NEW COMMUNITY ALLIANCE — $22,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCentral Fort Bend Chamber Alliance — $20,875 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGreater Houston Area Women's Chamber of Commerce — $20,200 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetKLEIN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $20,100 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetLet Every Woman Know - Alaska — $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE FINEST & BRAVEST FOUNDATION OF SUGAR LAND — $20,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTEXAS MASTER CHORALE INC — $19,000 over 1y, 83% of budgetFort Bend ISD Education Foundation — $18,750 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWEST HARRIS COUNTY — $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSisters Helping Sisters Fishing Tournaments — $16,030 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetConroe-Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce — $15,600 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $14,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BAYTOWN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $13,050 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY — $10,205 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY INDUSTRY DEMONSTRATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSTON NORTHWEST CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMANNED SPACE FLIGHT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOSE CREEK CISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetLEADERSHIP MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC — $8,250 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $7,680 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOODLANDS AREA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP — $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE WOODLANDS METHODIST CHURCH FOUNDATION — $6,805 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSociety of Samaritans Inc — $6,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetElijah Rising — $6,429 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTomball Rotary Foundation — $6,000 over 1y, 3.5% 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.

Memorial Hermann Heal…Shell USA Company Fou…Greater Houston Commu…The Methodist HospitalUnited Way of Greater…Albert & Ethel Herzst…First Community Cares…The Woodforest Charit…Community Foundation …Texas Children's Hosp…Houston Texans Founda…The Houston Food Bank
Memorial Hermann Health SystemTX30.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Memorial Hermann Health System · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · United Way of Greater Houston · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · First Community Cares Foundation · The Woodforest Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Texas Children's Hospital · Houston Texans Foundation · The Houston Food Bank

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 Methodist Hospital Group 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%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
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 62 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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