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Mithoff Family Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 75% of MITHOFF FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $110k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UT COLLEGE OF EDUCATION | $500,000 |
| UT HEALTH HOUSTON | $40,000 |
| HOUSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $24,375 |
| HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE | $14,500 |
| PERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON | $11,000 |
| JANE'S DUE PROCESS | $10,000 |
| HOUSTON BALLET | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN AT RISK | $6,000 |
| FIRENDS OF AUSTIN ANIMAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF HOUSTON | $2,500 |
| FEEDING TEXAS | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN FESTIVAL FOR THE ARTS | $1,000 |
| CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM PASS-THROUGH ENTITIES | $15 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $15k) 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.
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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $569k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CMCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC3× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +105%
- FTFEEDING TEXAS5× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +173%
- PAPERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON3× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- MHMemorial Hermann Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue +133%
- FIFASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +80%
- HAHouston Arts Allianceone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -2%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
CAMH presents extraordinary and thought-provoking arts programming and exhibitions.
The mission of art league houston is to connect the community through diverse, dynamic, and creative experiences that bring people together to see, make, and talk about contemporary visual art.
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
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…
Houston health foundation (hhf) has the mission of creating private/public partnerships for sustainable health and wellness initiatives and programs in our communities.
The mission of the Houston Academy of Medicine is to support the community service, education, scientific, and charitable programs for physicians, their patients, and the community at large in Harris County.
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…
The houston public media foundation mission is to marshal resources, relationships, and philanthropic support to bring arts and culture, education, and trusted news to the houston public media broadcast area.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
The mission of HGO is to enrich our diverse community through the art of opera. We will do so by creating, curating, exploring, and producing outstanding experiences centered around the human voice.(Continued on Schedule O)
To implement solutions that promote good health for the individual, the health system and the community. we collaborate with others as well as create signature, evidence-based ways to improve the communities where people live, work, learn…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. 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 42 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
31 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. 31 of the 48 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 JANE'S DUE PROCESS INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING TEXAS ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Men of Distinction of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds Memorial Hermann Foundation ↗
- Who funds FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Houston Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds Children At Risk ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Collaborative for Children ↗
- Who funds Hermann Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FESTIVAL FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Cure Sanfilippo Foundation ↗
- Who funds LEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Houston A Challenge ↗
- Who funds Bo's Place ↗
- Who funds The Council on Recovery ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT ↗
- Who funds ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER ↗
- Who funds AVDA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Houston Endowment Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Mechia Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Alkek and Williams Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · The Powell Foundation · Alvin & Lucy Owsley Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Strake 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 organization Mithoff Family Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
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.
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