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Ney Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$43k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$81kEducation$52kRecreation & Sports$40kHealth$35kReligion$27kHuman Services$22kPhilanthropy$20kScience & Tech$17kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$639k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Yale University$10,000
Ronald McDonald House Charities$5,000
Razorback Foundation$5,000
The Jones Center$4,000
Sunrise Cafe New Haven$2,500
Holocaust Museum$2,500
Houston Congregation for Reform Judaism$2,216
Jewish Federation of Greater Houston$1,500
Hobby Center Foundation$1,500
US Marshals Museum$1,450
Rice University Baker Institute$1,250
Houston Professional Fire Fighters' Association$1,000
Partners School of Nursing$1,000
Planned Parenthood$750
Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program$500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Hospice of the Valley: $500 → 11%Southeast Texas Food Bank: $500 → 19%Wounded Warrior Project: $1k → 14%Jewish Family Service: $250 → 16%The Covenant House of Texas: $500 → 16%HOUSTON ALPHASIA RECOVERY CTR: $250 → 16%Brenda & John Duncan YMCA: $500 → 16%Kids Meals: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
CT
CA
MO
MD
AZ
AR
TN
DC
LA
MS
TX
FL
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$236k · 45 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

45 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
115

Total granted

$236k
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+29%

Still filing today

47%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • RF
    RAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +67%
  • HS
    Houston Symphony Society
    4× · 2017–2023 · $6k · revenue +43%
  • BT
    BRIDGES TO LIFE
    6× · 2018–2023 · $4k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • AC
    ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +31%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +35%
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
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
2
Trees for Houston

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

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3
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
4
John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science

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…

Arts & Culture
5
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…

—
6
Mhs Physicians of Texas

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
7
Houston Academy of Medicine

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.

Education
8
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
9
The Heritage Society

The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…

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10
The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center

The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center holds a freestanding 37 bed inpatient facility in the Texas Medical Center that is operated and managed by Houston Hospice.

Human Services
11
The Houston Audubon Society

To advance the conservation of birds and their habitats in the Greater Houston Gulf Coast region by acquiring and maintaining critical habitat as bird sanctuaries, providing education programs and nature experiences, and advocating policy…

Environment
12
The Methodist Hospital Foundation

Mission: this organization is 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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 172 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/66
Grantees still filing
48/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Holocaust Museum: $24,650 · OtherHolocaust MuseumYALE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYHOUSTON CONGREGATION FOR REFORM JUDAISM: $19,223 · OtherHOUSTON CONGREGATION FOR REFORM JUDAISMRMH BEHIND EVERY DOOR: $10,000 · OtherJewish Federation of Greater Houston: $8,500 · OtherYale Alumni Fund: $6,700 · Other+119 more: $106,722 · Other+119 moreUS MARSHALS MUSEUM INC: $28,950 · Arts & CultureUS MARSHALS MUSEUM IN…Houston Museum of Natural Science: $16,500 · Arts & CultureHouston Museum of Nat…Houston Symphony Society: $5,750 · Arts & CultureHouston Symphony Soci…GLENWOOD CEMETERY HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $2,250 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $12,148 · Arts & Culture+10 moreRAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC: $37,400 · EducationRAZORBACK FOUN…YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS: $2,500 · EducationYELLOWSTONE AC…CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $2,000 · EducationLamar University Foundation Inc: $1,700 · Education+2 more: $1,200 · EducationARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $5,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $5,000 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION: $2,309 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $2,250 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR ANGELMAN SYNDROME THERAPEUTICS: $1,000 · Health+8 more: $2,100 · HealthRONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater Houston: $3,000 · PhilanthropyABERCROMBIE & KENT PHILANTHROPY INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 · PhilanthropyWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesSoutheast Texas Food Bank Inc: $500 · Human ServicesHospice of the Valley: $500 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $500 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $500 · Human ServicesHouston Aphasia Recovery Center: $250 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $250 · Human ServicesBRIDGES TO LIFE: $3,900 · Crime & LegalCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $500 · Crime & Legal
Other$195,795Arts & Culture$65,598Education$44,800Health$17,659Philanthropy$9,500Human Services$4,500Crime & Legal$4,400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC: $37,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUS MARSHALS MUSEUM INC: $28,950 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science: $16,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Federation of Greater Houston: $8,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Symphony Society: $5,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,250 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetRONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGES TO LIFE: $3,900 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCamp For All Foundation: $3,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $3,089 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE CAFE NEW HAVEN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION: $2,309 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $2,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGLENWOOD CEMETERY HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $2,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLone Star Flight Museum: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $1,763 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON: $1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLamar University Foundation Inc: $1,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budget1894 INC: $1,507 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hobby Center Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNECHES RIVER FESTIVAL INC: $1,335 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBo's Place: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MORY'S ASSOCIATION INC: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Park Conservancy Inc: $1,010 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ANGELMAN SYNDROME THERAPEUTICS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt John's School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Arboretum & Nature Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABERCROMBIE & KENT PHILANTHROPY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON WILDERNESS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORT SMITH MUSEUM OF HISTORY: $800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJulie Rogers Gift of Life Program: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheast Texas Food Bank Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAndys Challenge: $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHospice of the Valley: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON TEXANS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds RAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds US MARSHALS MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Houston ↗
  • Who funds Houston Symphony Society ↗
  • Who funds HOUSTON PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGES TO LIFE ↗
  • Who funds Camp For All Foundation ↗
  • Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds SUNRISE CAFE NEW HAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds CANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ↗
  • Who funds GLENWOOD CEMETERY HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Lone Star Flight Museum ↗
  • Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds Lamar University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds 1894 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.

Greater Houston Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…Albert & Ethel Herzst…Strake FoundationMechia FoundationThe Medallion Foundat…The Robert and Janice…Houston Endowment IncThe Brown Foundation …The Kayser FoundationHobby Family Foundati…The Elkins Foundation
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX35.6× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Strake Foundation · Mechia Foundation · The Medallion Foundation Inc · The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Kayser Foundation · Hobby Family Foundation · The Elkins Foundation

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 Ney Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ney Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
16report 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
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.

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 172 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home