· Private foundation
Prometheus Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k20 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $305k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ISHIDA DANCE COMPANY | $50,000 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE TRUST | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON | $30,000 |
| THE MENDCENTER FOUNDATION | $29,000 |
| ROTHKO CHAPEL | $25,000 |
| MUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER | $20,000 |
| SHANTI BHAVAN CHILDREN'S PROJECT | $20,000 |
| WENDY WAGNER FOUNDATION FOR FUNDING | $15,000 |
| W O SMITH MUSIC SCHOOL | $14,000 |
| INNOCENCE PROJECT | $14,000 |
| FAM INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY | $12,500 |
| BALLET TECH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FISK UNIVERSITY JUBILEE SINGERS | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $347k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
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.
59 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 13 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k 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
- MFMENDCENTER FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $540k · revenue +486% · 30% of their budget
- SBSHANTI BHAVAN CHILDREN'S PROJECT INC7× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +145%
- HAHouston Area Women's Center8× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- HFHELIO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k
- LWLAST WISHES FUNDone grant, 2021 · $10k
- BBARCone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
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…
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
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…
Laurel's House strengthens the human animal bond improves public health decreases the number of companion animal euthanasia due to overpopulation and diminishes human impact on native wildlife species by providing unprecedented access to…
The mission of the Houston Area Parkinson Society is to use a whole-human approach to community building, which reduces the fear and isolation associated with a Parkinson's diagnosis.
We acquire properties to be donated to the National Park Service and state entities and advocate for protection of Big Thicket natural resources.
The Willow Waterhole Greenspace Conservancy ("Willow Waterhole") serves as the leading advocate for public greenspace improvements and nature preservation at the 291-acre Willow Waterhole Greenway. (See Schedule O)Willow Waterhole partners…
West Street Recovery's mission is to connect communities to the resources they need to rebuild after climate disasters such as Hurricane Harvey and build resilient, secure, and stronger communities.
Trinity Park Conservancy champions the transformation of the Trinity River to become the heart of Dallas. With the community, the Conservancy will design public spaces that unite us, enrich people's lives through access to nature, create…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Star of Hope Mission and the most unlike its peers is Espiritu de la Alpaca Inc. 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 22 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
78 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. 78 of the 123 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 MENDCENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHANTI BHAVAN CHILDREN'S PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Area Women's Center ↗
- Who funds MUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF AMERICANA ROOTS MUSIC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS-HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds ISHIDA DANCE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds WO SMITH NASHVILLE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KIPP NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds Children's Assessment Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds BALLET TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Elijah Rising ↗
- Who funds Jung Society of Washington ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rothko Chapel ↗
- Who funds SAVE BUFFALO BAYOU ↗
- Who funds LIFT MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds INPRINT INC ↗
- Who funds Catastrophic Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSIC & MEMORY INC ↗
- Who funds FAM INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Memorial Park Conservancy 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 · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · One Valley Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Yellowstone Club Community Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · Jacob and Terese Hershey 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 Prometheus Charitable Trust 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.