How much does River Oaks Garden Club give?

River Oaks Garden Club reported 12 itemized grants totaling $359,178, out of $380,063 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does River Oaks Garden Club fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (53%), Environment (15%), Public Benefit (6%).

Who are River Oaks Garden Club's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Museum of Fine Arts Houston ($1.0M), Museum of Fine Arts ($345k), Houston Botanic Garden ($226k).

Does River Oaks Garden Club fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as River Oaks Garden Club?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc, Garden Club of Houston.

Where is River Oaks Garden Club based?

River Oaks Garden Club is based in TX.

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Texas · Public charity

River Oaks Garden Club

The purpose of River Oaks Garden Club is to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening and to restore, improve, and protect the quality of the environment through educational programs and action in the fields of conservation and civic improvement.

$380k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 12
Itemized grants FY2025: 12
Organizations funded FY2024: 25%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $359k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $12,200
Largest grant, FY2025: $208,213
Organizations funded a year: 7 to 13; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $2.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations River Oaks Garden Club funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthArts & CultureReligionOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	12	$359k	42%
FY2024	12	$333k	25%
FY2023	13	$429k	8%
FY2022	11	$280k	18%
FY2021	7	$138k	43%
FY2020	7	$226k	29%
FY2019	8	$252k	63%
FY2018	9	$303k	44%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.4MEnvironment$390kPublic Benefit$151kRecreation & Sports$139kEducation$133kYouth Development$125kHuman Services$90kFood & Nutrition$80kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston	$1,024,655	7	0%
Museum of Fine Arts	$344,784	2	n/a
Houston Botanic Garden	$226,200	5	2%
Pro-Vision Inc	$115,000	4	2%
Forum of Civics Foundation	$112,075	7	22%
Memorial Park Conservancy Inc	$111,275	6	0%
Hermann Park Conservancy	$55,000	3	0%
Urban Harvest Inc	$50,000	5	1%
The Brookwood Community Inc	$44,500	4	0%
The Mercer Society	$39,365	5	5%

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All grantees of River Oaks Garden Club by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston	$1,024,655	7	0%
Museum of Fine Arts	$344,784	2	n/a
Houston Botanic Garden	$226,200	5	2%
Pro-Vision Inc	$115,000	4	2%
Forum of Civics Foundation	$112,075	7	22%
Memorial Park Conservancy Inc	$111,275	6	0%
Hermann Park Conservancy	$55,000	3	0%
Urban Harvest Inc	$50,000	5	1%
The Brookwood Community Inc	$44,500	4	0%
The Mercer Society	$39,365	5	5%
Houston Arboretum & Nature Center	$37,500	4	0%
Bayou Bend Gardens Endowment	$35,825	4	n/a
Holly Hall	$31,800	3	0%
Recipe for Success Foundation	$30,000	3	1%
Main Street Ministries Houston	$26,500	3	1%
Willow Waterhole Greenspace Conservancy	$25,000	1	2%
Pro-Vision Educational Services Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Inspire ND Inc	$20,000	2	0%
River Oaks Elementary School PTO	$18,685	2	2%
Friends of River Oaks Park	$17,500	2	n/a
The Parish Children's School	$17,500	2	0%
Casa Mateo	$15,000	1	2%
Nick Finnegan Counseling Center Foundation	$15,000	1	3%
Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County	$15,000	1	0%
Friends of Field	$10,000	1	n/a
Covenant House Texas	$10,000	1	0%
Harris County Hospital District Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Avenue Community Development Corporation	$10,000	1	0%
Workshop Houston	$10,000	1	n/a
Bayou Preservation Association Inc	$10,000	1	3%
Harvard Outdoor Classroom	$10,000	1	n/a
The Saint Constantine School	$9,615	1	0%
Memorial Es Parental Teacher Organi Zation	$7,700	1	3%
Houston Hospice	$6,500	1	0%
My Connect Community	$6,225	1	0%
Buffalo Bayou Partnership Inc	$5,250	1	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget River Oaks Garden Club supplied at peak.

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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 FoundationTX36.5× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Garden Club of Houston · Shell USA Company Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Elkins Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · The Cullen Foundation · The Susan Vaughan Foundation 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.

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About River Oaks Garden Club

How much does River Oaks Garden Club give?: River Oaks Garden Club reported 12 itemized grants totaling $359,178, out of $380,063 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does River Oaks Garden Club fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (53%), Environment (15%), Public Benefit (6%).
Who are River Oaks Garden Club's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Museum of Fine Arts Houston ($1.0M), Museum of Fine Arts ($345k), Houston Botanic Garden ($226k).
Does River Oaks Garden Club fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as River Oaks Garden Club?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc, Garden Club of Houston.
Where is River Oaks Garden Club based?: River Oaks Garden Club is based in TX.