· Private foundation
Naomi Turner True Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| UNIV OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $8,000 |
| NATIVITY ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY HOUSTON | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $6k) 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BSBach Society Houston4× · 2020–2023 · $35k · revenue +23%
The Houston Food Bank6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +36%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC3× · 2023–2025 · $14k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- HAHouston Area Women's Centergraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +44%
- BPBAYOU PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +71%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR AMERICAN AND INTERNATIONAL LAWone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +16%
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.
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.
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…
Houston health foundation (hhf) has the mission of creating private/public partnerships for sustainable health and wellness initiatives and programs in our communities.
The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…
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.
Schedule OTo serve the needs of Houston-area lawyers and enhance the legal profession through promoting professionalism, access to justice, the rule of law, equality, and inclusion in the legal profession, legal education for the…
The Houston Bar Foundation supports programs that help provide legal representation to the indigent, promote community understanding of our legal system, and foster the administration of justice.
Our mission is to provide high quality and caring services to promote healthy people and communities.
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…
The houston geological society is a professional society for petroleum, energy and environmental geoscientists. the houston geological society supports continuing education, networking, outreach to students, student scholarships and young…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Bach Society Houston ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON YOUNG LAWYERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Houston Area Women's Center ↗
- Who funds WILCHESTER MEN'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BAYOU PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN AND INTERNATIONAL LAW ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Naomi Turner True Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Naomi Turner True Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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