· Private foundation
Polycarp 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ITS THE PITS COOKERS | $40,000 |
| TACOMA YOUTH MARINE CENTER | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $15,000 |
| TEXAS STATE AQUARIUM | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION CHARITIES INC | $10,000 |
| ST ANDREWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| YAGA'S CHILDREN'S FUND | $10,000 |
| THE THANKFUL ONES | $10,000 |
| CYPRESS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF HOUSTON | $5,000 |
| HOUSTON ZOO | $5,000 |
| TEXAS AND SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 8% of Polycarp Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 85% 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 +38% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches5× · 2020–2024 · $160k · revenue +38%
- DPDigital Preservation Organization3× · 2021–2023 · $50k · revenue ×88 · 100% of their budget
- SOSONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS INC6× · 2017–2022 · $38k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- SSSEA STAR BASE GALVESTONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $165k · revenue ×13 · 52% of their budget
- CMCAFE MOMENTUMone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -11%
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $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.
Preservation of maritime history through exhibits and educational programs.
Texas Book Festival connects authors and readers through experiences that celebrate the culture of literacy, ideas, and imagination.
To provide the general public with the rich heart of texas heritage
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 dallas museum of art is a space of wonder and discovery where art comes alive.the dma will: - place art and our diverse communities at the center around which all activities radiate - pursue excellence in collecting and programming,…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 30 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 SEA STAR BASE GALVESTON ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Digital Preservation Organization ↗
- Who funds IT'S THE PITS COOKERS INC ↗
- Who funds SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE MILITARY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CAFE MOMENTUM ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds The Thankful Ones ↗
- Who funds YAGAS CHILDRENS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Odyssey 2020 Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds Dallas Intergroup Association ↗
- Who funds Seafarers Center of Beaumont ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Polycarp Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Polycarp Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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