· Private foundation
Rockwell Fund Inc
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k47 grants · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON | $235,000 |
| TEEN AND FAMILY SERVICES | $125,000 |
| UNIV OF TX HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER | $125,000 |
| AGAPE DEVELOPMENT MINISTRIES | $125,000 |
| EARL CARL INSTITUTE FOR LEGAL | $125,000 |
| CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY PRIORITIES | $125,000 |
| HOUSTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC | $125,000 |
| HYPE FREEDOM SCHOOL INC | $125,000 |
| FIFTH WARD COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT | $125,000 |
| HOUSTON REVISION | $120,000 |
| GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER | $115,000 |
| PAIR | $115,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| HEALTHY FUTURES OF TEXAS | $100,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH HOUSTON | $100,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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.
51 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 15 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $875k 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
- HRHOUSTON REVISION5× · 2020–2024 · $890k · revenue +86%
- TFTeen & Family Services5× · 2020–2024 · $625k · revenue +146%
- HFHYPE FREEDOM SCHOOL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $575k · revenue +257% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- AOALLIANCE OF COMMUNITYone grant, 2022 · $275k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $160k
- IiEDUCATEone grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue +18%
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.
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…
The organization provides medical services in the form of primary and preventive care to underserved and underinsured residents of harris county.
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.
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.
To promote civic engagement through education, development, outreach and grant-making.
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…
The coalition for the homeless of houston/harris county acts as a catalyst, uniting partners and maximizing resources to move people experiencing homelessness into permanent housing with supportive services.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.
Empower and inspire the success of the large and fast-growing hispanic community in the greater houston area thereby strengthening the entire community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Avow Foundation for Abortion Access. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
75 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 75 of the 106 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.
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- Who funds THE WOMEN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON INC ↗
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- Who funds HEALTHY FUTURES OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds New Hope Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN ENRICHMENT INSTITUTE ↗
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- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds Agape Development Ministries ↗
- Who funds FIFTH WARD COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Girls Incorporated of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds The Montrose Center ↗
- Who funds NAMI GREATER HOUSTON ↗
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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: Houston Endowment Inc · United Way of Greater Houston · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Episcopal Health Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Methodist Hospital · The Simmons Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · The Powell Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services
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 Rockwell Fund Inc 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.
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