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Robert W Knox & Pearl Wallis Knox Charitable at a glance

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Robert W Knox & Pearl Wallis Knox Charitable

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$306k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$449kHealth$409kAnimals$279kYouth Development$170kEducation$95kHousing & Shelter$95kFood & Nutrition$83kArts & Culture$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $292k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOUSTON$25,000
KERRVILLE PETS ALIVE$20,000
SAN JOSE CLINIC$15,000
AUSTIN PETS ALIVE$15,000
CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICE INC$15,000
CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH FOUNDATION$15,000
SoleAna STABLES$12,000
THE MENINGER CLINIC FOUNDATION$10,000
BOYSVILLE INC$10,000
BEAUMONT PETS ALIVE$10,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS BAY AREA INC$10,000
CAMP FOR ALL FOUNDATION$10,000
BLUEBONNET EQUINE HUMANE SOCIETY INC$10,000
FAMILY SERVICE CENTER$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $352k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COMMUNITY ALLIANCE AGAINST FAMILY ABUSE: $10k → 11%INSPIRATION RANCH INC: $10k → 9%BENEVOLENT HOUSE CHILD PLACING AGENCY: $5k → 9%SoleAna STABLES: $12k → 10%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $3k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $10k → 16%STREET GRACE: $15k → 9%TEXAS NEW COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $10k → 9%PRESBYTERIAN CHILDRENS HOMES & SERVICES: $10k → 10%BOYSVILLE INC: $10k → 16%NEMEHIAH CENTER INC: $10k → 16%RESPITE CARE OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $10k → 16%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10k → 16%AFTER MILITARY SERVICE: $10k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $20k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $15k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $10k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF: $10k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $10k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $5k → 16%SPAULDING FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 16%SPAULDING FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 16%SPAULDING FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 16%BOYS & GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $10k → 16%BOYS & GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $10k → 16%BAKER RIPLEY: $10k → 16%MEMORIAL ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INC: $10k → 16%FURNITURE BANK: $10k → 16%REACH UNLIMITED INC: $5k → 16%NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $10k → 16%ADAM MCCAULEY FAMILY CANCER FOUNDATION: $6k → 16%KID'S MEALS INC: $10k → 16%KIDS' MEALS INC: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ND
IL
NY
CO
AZ
GA
TX
FL
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.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$809k · 32 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
85

Total granted

$809k
$848k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+17%

Still filing today

91%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsEducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR
    3× · 2021–2025 · $65k · revenue +69%
  • The Houston Food Bank
    3× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +36%
  • HH
    Houston Hospice
    3× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • FB
    FURNITURE BANK HOUSTON
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • MT
    Miller Theatre Advisory Board Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +100%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
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
Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County

The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.

Human Services
2
LifeHouse of Houston Inc

LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.

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3
Laurels House

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…

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4
Houston Pets Alive

Houston Pets Alive!s (HPA!) mission is to save the lives of at-risk companion cats and dogs and find them loving homes.

Animals
5
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
6
Rebuilding Together Houston

Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…

Housing & Shelter
7
Central Texas Spca

Rescue neglected, unwanted homeless dogs and cats nurture and provide shelter until they are placed with a forever family strive to reduce animal overpopulation prevent cruelty to animals teach responsible pet ownership through an outreach…

Animals
8
Fostering Family

Fostering family dba the riverside project is a 501(c)(3) public charity that on behalf of houston's children and their families, brings together organizations and passionate people working as one to help families heal and children thrive.

Community Improvement
9
Humane Society of Harris County

Humane Society of Harris County's mission remains steadfast: to provide high-quality adoption, transport, foster, Trap, neuter, release, and pet food pantry services to our community. Yet, with a fresh perspective and a renewed passion,…

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10
Spca of Texas

The spca of texas is dedicated to providing every animal exceptional care and a loving home.

Animals
11
Houston Area Women's Center

The Houston Area Women's Center (HAWC) works to end domestic and sexual violence and supports all in building safe and healthy lives through advocacy, counseling, education, shelter, and support services.

Human Services
12
Trees for Houston

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

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Inspiration Ranch Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Adam McCauley Family Cancer 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

108 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. 108 of the 133 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)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
107/108
Grantees still filing
75/108
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN JOSE CLINIC: $50,250 · OtherSAN JOSE CLINICThe Houston Food Bank: $42,500 · OtherThe Houston Food BankHouston Hospice: $40,000 · OtherHouston HospiceFURNITURE BANK HOUSTON: $30,000 · OtherCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC: $30,000 · OtherInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston: $25,250 · OtherSAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $25,250 · Other+43 more: $476,000 · Other+43 moreCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $35,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE TEXASSPAULDING FOR CHILDREN: $35,000 · Human ServicesSPAULDING FOR CHILDRENTHE WOMEN'S HOME: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S HOMEBOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $20,250 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE: $15,000 · Human ServicesStreet Grace Inc: $15,000 · Human Services+24 more: $214,250 · Human Services+24 moreKERRVILLE PETS ALIVE: $30,000 · AnimalsKERRVILLE PETS …AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $30,000 · AnimalsAUSTIN PETS ALI…BLUEBONNET EQUINE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $20,000 · AnimalsBLUEBONNET EQUI…Humane Society of North Texas: $20,000 · AnimalsHumane Society …BEAUMONT PETS ALIVE: $20,000 · AnimalsBEAUMONT PETS A…ETOSHA RESCUE & ADOPTION CENTER: $20,000 · AnimalsETOSHA RESCUE &…PET PREVENT A LITTER (PALS) OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $10,250 · AnimalsPAWS CHICAGO: $10,250 · AnimalsANIMAL REFUGE CENTER INC: $10,250 · AnimalsRESCUED PETS MOVEMENT INC: $10,000 · AnimalsTHREE LITTLE PITTIES RESCUE: $10,000 · AnimalsSPAY NEUTER NETWORK: $10,000 · AnimalsHOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 · AnimalsDALLAS PETS ALIVE: $10,000 · AnimalsHILL COUNTRY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10,000 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $10,000 · Animals+2 more: $7,500 · AnimalsCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS-BAY AREA INC: $30,000 · EducationCOMMUNITI…THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH: $25,000 · EducationTHE CENTE…THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationTHE CENTE…Small Steps Nurturing Center: $15,000 · EducationSmall Ste…GRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC: $10,250 · EducationGRANT HAL…FAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS: $10,250 · EducationFAMILY LI…Avondale House Inc: $10,000 · EducationAvondale …KIPP Texas Inc: $10,000 · EducationKIPP Texa…CAREER GEAR HOUSTON: $10,000 · EducationCAREER GE…TINY TIM CENTER INC DBA TLC LEARNING CENTER: $5,250 · Education+2 more: $10,000 · Education+2 moreTHE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON: $25,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC: $15,000 · HealthPALMER DRUG ABUSE PROGRAM HOUSTON INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE MENNINGER CLINIC FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthChrist Clinic: $10,000 · HealthSEVEN ACRES JEWISH SENIOR CARE SERVICES INC: $10,000 · HealthNick Finnegan Counseling Center Foundation: $10,000 · HealthAIDS FOUNDATION HOUSTON INC: $10,000 · HealthTEXAS DIAPER BANK: $10,000 · HealthMagnificat Houses Inc: $5,000 · HealthBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR: $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentCamp For All Foundation: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirl Scouts of San Jacinto Council: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentMiller Theatre Advisory Board Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON: $20,000 · Arts & CultureBo's Place: $15,000 · Arts & CultureJohn P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science: $10,250 · Arts & CultureHouston Ballet Foundation: $10,000 · Arts & CultureALLEY THEATRE: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$749,250Human Services$399,500Animals$248,250Education$150,750Health$115,000Youth Development$110,000Arts & Culture$80,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR: $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $42,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Hospice: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPAULDING FOR CHILDREN: $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetKERRVILLE PETS ALIVE: $30,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS-BAY AREA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $25,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston: $25,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S HOME: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $20,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMiller Theatre Advisory Board Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBLUEBONNET EQUINE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of North Texas: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBEAUMONT PETS ALIVE: $20,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetETOSHA RESCUE & ADOPTION CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIRE INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBo's Place: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetStreet Grace Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSmall Steps Nurturing Center: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRespite Care of San Antonio Inc: $10,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJohn P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science: $10,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC: $10,250 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO: $10,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS: $10,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $10,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL REFUGE CENTER INC: $10,250 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE AGAINST FAMILY ABUSE: $10,250 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAvondale House Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRESCUED PETS MOVEMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMISSION CENTERS OF HOUSTON: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHREE LITTLE PITTIES RESCUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPALMER DRUG ABUSE PROGRAM HOUSTON INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYSVILLE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Albert & Ethel Herzst…Greater Houston Commu…Harry S & Isabel C Ca…The Brown Foundation …Strake FoundationShell USA Company Fou…The William Stamps Fa…United Way of Greater…The Elkins FoundationThe Methodist HospitalMD Anderson FoundationSterling-Turner Found…
Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable FoundationTX64.5× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Brown Foundation Inc · Strake Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · United Way of Greater Houston · The Elkins Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · MD Anderson Foundation · Sterling-Turner 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robert W Knox & Pearl Wallis Knox Charitable funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert W Knox & Pearl Wallis Knox Charitable. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
49report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 133 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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