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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.

$622k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 15
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$88k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Poarch Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving22$622k18%
FY202315$429k40%
FY202215$393k20%
FY202113$143k15%
FY202011$97k55%
FY201910$127k40%
FY201814$156k79%
FY20175$138kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$939kHealth$507kCommunity Improvement$225kEnvironment$125kRecreation & Sports$101kAnimals$57kEmployment$50kArts & Culture$35kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
MN
CO
MO
MD
AZ
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 33 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($262k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Poarch Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Kinkaid School Inc: $858,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetThe Methodist Hospital Foundation: $270,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetStoney Creek Foundation: $75,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Texas Foundation Inc: $52,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBelong Bakery: $50,000 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetParks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Clean City Commission Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBoy Scouts of America Sam Houston Area Council: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAdmiral Nimitz Foundation: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMemorial Assistance Ministries: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYES Prep Public Schools Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Botanic Garden: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Country of Houston Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEND North: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFredericksburg Theater Company: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCovenant House Texas: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Will Erwin Headache Research Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Feline Fix: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHouston Zoo Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoot Ranch Hall Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetDoctor Marnie Rose Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBladder Cancer Advocacy Network Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpringSpirit Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Golf Foundation of America Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVita Living Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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 Community FoundationTX24.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to Poarch Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Poarch Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Poarch Family Foundation

How much does Poarch Family Foundation give?
Poarch Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $622,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Poarch Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (45%), Health (24%), Community Improvement (11%).
Who are Poarch Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Kinkaid School Inc ($859k), The Methodist Hospital Foundation ($270k), Alpha Houston ($225k).
Does Poarch Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Poarch Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Poarch Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust.
Where is Poarch Family Foundation based?
Poarch Family Foundation is based in TX.

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 41 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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