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Rathmell 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.

$61k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.2MYouth Development$224kHousing & Shelter$123kRecreation & Sports$115kHealth$108kReligion$58kEducation$33kHuman Services$27kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
$8,627
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SpringSpirit Inc$20,627
The Beta Foundation$20,000
Reach Out America International Inc$8,627
Yellowstone Academy Inc (Yellowstone Schools)$7,000
Houston Tri Delta Philanthropies Inc$3,000
Casa Juan Diego$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Reach Out America International Inc: $9k → 14%Memorial Villages Police Foundation: $6k → 16%Prison Entrepreneurship Program: $5k → 16%Boys and Girls Country of Houston: $5k → 16%Boys and Girls Country of Houston: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$594k · 13 repeat orgs$118k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
12

Total granted

$594k
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+109%

Still filing today

69%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsEnvironmentEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SI
    SpringSpirit Inc
    5× · 2018–2024 · $86k · revenue +55%
  • CJ
    CASA JUAN DIEGO
    8× · 2017–2024 · $59k · revenue +34%
  • MP
    Memorial Park Conservancy Inc
    5× · 2019–2023 · $45k · revenue +146%

Funded once

  • CT
    Christ the King Presbyterian Church
    one grant, 2017 · $23k
  • TG
    TEXAS GOLF HALL OF FAME & MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +164%
  • NF
    Nick Finnegan Counseling Center
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Houston Parks Board Foundation

The Houston Parks Board Foundation provides the Houston Parks Board with financial assistance to support operations and park projects.

Environment
2
Heb Tournament of Champions Charitable Trust
Philanthropy
3
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
4
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
5
The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center

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.

Human Services
6
Houston Independent School District Foundation

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…

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7
Texas Medical Association

The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…

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8
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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9
Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc

Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

Housing & Shelter
10
Houston Parks Board

The Houston Parks Board mission is to expand, improve, and protect parks and greenspace in the Houston region.

Philanthropy
11
Houston Bar Foundation

The Houston Bar Foundation supports programs that help provide legal representation to the indigent, promote community understanding of our legal system, and foster the administration of justice.

Crime & Legal
12
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camp Blessing Texas Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mark and Mary Ann Miller Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Spring Spirit Baseball: $36,000 · OtherSpring Spirit BaseballCHRIST THE KING PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $35,000 · OtherCHRIST THE KING PRESBYTERIAN CHURC…Houston Methodist Hospital: $35,000 · OtherHouston Methodist HospitalHOUSTON TRIDELTA PHILANTHROPIES INC: $27,446 · OtherHOUSTON TRIDELTA PHILANTHROPIES IN…Christ the King Presbyterian Church: $22,800 · OtherChrist the King Presbyterian Churc…Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundat: $17,800 · OtherSusan G Komen Breast Cancer Founda…Nick Finnegan Counseling Center: $10,000 · OtherAlzheimers Disease and Related Diso: $8,000 · OtherTEXAS GOLF HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM (AUDIT): $15,000 · OtherTEXAS GOLF HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM (…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $8,000 · Other+3 more: $4,700 · OtherCAMP BLESSING TEXAS INC: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP BLESSING TEXAS INCCASA JUAN DIEGO: $58,861 · Human ServicesCASA JUAN DIEGOEAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY: $19,666 · Human ServicesEAST FORT BEND H…REACH OUT AMERICA INTERNATIONAL INC: $8,627 · Human ServicesREACH OUT AMERIC…BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS C…Memorial Villages Police Foundation: $6,000 · Human ServicesMemorial Village…PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSpringSpirit Inc: $85,843 · Recreation & SportsSpringSpirit I…SPRING BRANCH-MEMORIAL SPORTS ASSOC: $7,000 · Recreation & SportsSPRING BRANCH-…STAR OF HOPE MISSION: $63,687 · Housing & ShelterSTAR OF HO…Memorial Park Conservancy Inc: $45,000 · EnvironmentGalveston Bay Foundation Inc: $2,500 · EnvironmentTHE BETA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationYELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS: $12,600 · Education
Other$219,746Youth Development$150,000Human Services$105,654Recreation & Sports$92,843Housing & Shelter$63,687Environment$47,500Education$32,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAMP BLESSING TEXAS INC: $150,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetSpringSpirit Inc: $85,843 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $63,687 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCASA JUAN DIEGO: $58,861 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMemorial Park Conservancy Inc: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSTON TRIDELTA PHILANTHROPIES INC: $27,446 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetTHE BETA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY: $19,666 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTEXAS GOLF HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM (AUDIT): $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetYELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS: $12,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREACH OUT AMERICA INTERNATIONAL INC: $8,627 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMemorial Villages Police Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetPRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGalveston Bay Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 Commu…Strake FoundationThe Hg Ash FoundationThe Houston Food BankShell USA Company Fou…Natl Christian Charit…Raymond James Charita…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX21.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · The Hg Ash Foundation · The Houston Food Bank · Shell USA Company Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rathmell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rathmell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Rathmell Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rathmell 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.

    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 27 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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