· Private foundation
Petrello Family Foundation
Its FY2026 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALBERTUS MAGNUS COLLEGE | $200,000 |
| NEWARK ACADEMY | $200,000 |
| ALLEY THEATRE | $50,000 |
| THE HERMAN PARK CONSERVANCY | $50,000 |
| HOUSTON BALLET | $25,000 |
| EVERGREEN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $27k) 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
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 11% of Petrello Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 58% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 68%.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2026, 41 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NANEWARK ACADEMY6× · 2017–2026 · $1.3M · revenue +43%
- HGHOUSTON GRAND OPERA8× · 2017–2024 · $561k · revenue +28%
- ATALLEY THEATRE9× · 2017–2026 · $395k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- ODOBOLO DI DAN PIETROone grant, 2018 · $100k
- LCLEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTHgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +140%
- UHUT HEALTHone grant, 2017 · $25k
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 enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
CAMH presents extraordinary and thought-provoking arts programming and exhibitions.
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…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
We connect audiences with exceptional artists through diverse performances and learning experiences. we ignite and cultivate passion for the performing arts to create community, inspire dialogue and enrich our world.
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.
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 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.
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…
Mission: Connect communities with animals, inspiring action to save wildlife. Vision: Be a leader in the global movement to save wildlife. (Continued on Schedule O) Houston Zoo, Inc. (HZI) strives to be a zoo that practices exemplary…
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
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…
How this is measured
62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 115 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 NEWARK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON GRAND OPERA ↗
- Who funds ALLEY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE HERMAN PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ALBERTUS MAGNUS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN LIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL CHEERS ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKWOOD COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO BAYOU PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON CINEMA ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE PERIWINKLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES ↗
- Who funds HOBBY CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MENNINGER CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SHANTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds PRELUDE MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RECIPE FOR SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds THE MENIL COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds WRITERS IN THE SCHOOLS ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Strake Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Mechia Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · The Powell Foundation · The Alkek and Williams Foundation · Madison Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Petrello Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Petrello Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Albertus Magnus College: 6% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Franciscan Life Center Network Incorporated: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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