· Private foundation
Penland Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k62 grants · $159k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $296k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $437k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIFT OF LIFE | $112,000 |
| C 3 FOUNDATION | $110,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $95,000 |
| GIRLS HAVEN INC | $65,000 |
| TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $55,300 |
| THE 100 CLUB OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS | $42,800 |
| YMBL | $31,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| MOMS FOR AMERICA | $25,000 |
| PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE | $25,000 |
| HARDIN COUNTY YOUTH PROJECT SHOW | $22,450 |
| CHAMBERS COUNTY YOUTH LIVESTOCK SHO | $18,073 |
| LAMAR UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| CHRISTUS HEALTH FOUNDATION SETX | $12,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $209k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 14% of Penland Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 79%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
74 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 22 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JRJulie Rogers Gift of Life Program5× · 2020–2025 · $589k · revenue +49%
- TCTexas Children's Hospital6× · 2020–2025 · $388k · revenue +69%
- T1THE 100 CLUB OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS6× · 2020–2025 · $196k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- FFFEDERAL FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue 0%- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS USA GAMESone grant, 2022 · $30k
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.
To create and maintain a permanent organization representative of amateur athletic and to establish the highest ideals of amateur sports in the state of texas
To serve the city of Gatesville and the surrounding communities with a voluntary Fire Department for the protection of lives, homes, and property of the citizens.
To provide fire protection for little texas commuity of macon county, alabama.
Hospice of east texas foundation operates for the benefit of hospice of east texas, a texas non-profit corporation.
The Association serves the fire and emergency responders of Texas and beyond, exists to improve the Texas fire service, and is committed to the betterment of Texas emergency services.
The corporation shall be organized, and at all times operated, exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of post oak little league, inc., houston, texas, a nonprofit corporation organization.
Supporting the Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System
How this is measured
53 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. 53 of the 168 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 Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds C3 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE 100 CLUB OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds GIRLS' HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERAL FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Moms for America Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST TEXAS CIRCLE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds BEAUMONT PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS ↗
- Who funds CHILD ABUSE & BEYOND INC ↗
- Who funds PORT NECHES POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Mechia Foundation · The Bob and Karen Wortham Charitable Fou · Gay D and William F Scott Family Foundation · Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc · He and Kate Dishman Charitable Trust · The Morgan Charitable Foundation · Young Mens Business League of Beaumont · Wilton and Effie Hebert Foundation · Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation · B a and E W Steinhagen Benevolent Trust · Sidney and Charline Dauphin Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Penland Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Penland Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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