· Private foundation
Patricia Lewis Zoch Children's 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of PATRICIA LEWIS ZOCH CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION’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 · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CAESAR KLEBERG WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $21,000 |
| WILLOW CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE | $20,000 |
| SAN JACINTO MUSEUM AND BATTLESHIP ASSOCIATION | $13,800 |
| MEADOWBROOK PARENT'S ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| ST BARNABAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| KING RANCH INSTITUTE FOR RANCH MANAGEMENT | $10,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO ACADEMY | $7,000 |
| TEXAS BIOMEDICAL FORUM GALA | $6,000 |
| AUGUST HEART | $6,000 |
| DEERFIELD ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| WOMEN'S AUXILIARY TO CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CTR DALLAS | $4,235 |
| THE DALLAS FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| SAN JACINTO MUSEUM AND BATTLESHIP ASSOCIATION | $3,800 |
| THE MUSTARD SEED | $3,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $10k) 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- WCWILLOW CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE9× · 2017–2025 · $198k · revenue +333%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH8× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +44%
- SJSan Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association5× · 2017–2021 · $54k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- LLLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMAone grant, 2018 · $10k
- NDNEW DAY PORT A FUNDone grant, 2018 · $6k
- RJROBERT J KLEBERG PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
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…
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
Lone Star Flight Museum (LSFM) celebrates flight and achievements in Texas aviation, engages youth through STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), and believes aviation inspires achievement and endless possibilities.
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.
South texas college of law houston provides a diverse body of students the opportunity to obtain an exceptional legal education, preparing graduates to serve their community and profession with distinction.
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…
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…
To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boys and Girls Club of Kingsville Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 58 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 WILLOW CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MEADOWBROOK PARENTS' ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SANDFEST ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Botanic Garden ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTHEART ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF KINGSVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDFLOWER DONOR INC ↗
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: The Brown Foundation Inc · San Antonio Area Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Patricia Lewis Zoch Children's Foundation 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.
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.