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Poarch Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $153k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Kinkaid School Inc | $250,000 |
| The Methodist Hospital Foundation | $125,000 |
| Stoney Creek Foundation | $50,000 |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $47,500 |
| Alpha Houston | $25,000 |
| The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | $25,000 |
| The Brookwood Community Inc | $15,000 |
| Belong Bakery (Belong Kitchen HTX) | $10,000 |
| Keep Houston Beautiful Inc | $10,000 |
| Boy Scouts of America Sam Houston Area Council | $10,000 |
| Texas Parks and Wildlife | $10,000 |
| Admiral Nimitz Foundation | $5,000 |
| YES Prep Public Schools Inc | $5,000 |
| Fredericksburg Theater Company | $5,000 |
| The Feline Felix | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Poarch Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 89% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +59% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- TKThe Kinkaid School Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $859k · revenue +87%
- TMTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $270k · revenue +92%
- SCSTONEY CREEK FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETESone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +19%
- SNSEND Northone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +19%
- TWTHE WILL ERWIN HEADACHE RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -46%
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.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
Fort Bend Christian Academy exists to glorify God through excellence in college preparatory Christian education. FBCA strives to equip students with the ability to thrive spiritually, academically, socially, and physically.
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston's mission is to inspire and enable all youth, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…
As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.
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.
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…
The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Children's Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Covenant House Texas. 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 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 41 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 The Kinkaid School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STONEY CREEK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BELONG BAKERY ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON CLEAN CITY COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds Boy Scouts of America Sam Houston Area Council ↗
- Who funds ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Memorial Assistance Ministries ↗
- Who funds YES Prep Public Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Botanic Garden ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds SEND North ↗
- Who funds FREDERICKSBURG THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds THE WILL ERWIN HEADACHE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FELINE FIX ↗
- Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds BOOT RANCH HALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Doctor Marnie Rose Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BLADDER CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds SpringSpirit Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust · Shell USA Company Foundation · Midway Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · Strake Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Baker Hughes Foundation · Jerry C Dearing Family Foundation · The Kayser Foundation · The John M O'Quinn Foundation
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 Poarch Family 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.
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