· Private foundation
Ruth Jones Macdonald Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $420k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RE MIND | $30,000 |
| NICK FINNEGAN COUNSELING CENTER | $30,000 |
| BE PEACE - BE HOPE | $25,000 |
| SOLEANA STABLES | $25,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH | $25,000 |
| HOPE AND HEALING CENTER | $25,000 |
| OPEN DOOR MISSION | $25,000 |
| BO'S PLACE | $25,000 |
| ARCHWAY ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| SHARPEN RECOVERY | $20,000 |
| THE COUNCIL ON RECOVERY | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| COUNSELING CONNECTIONS FOR CHANGE | $20,000 |
| THE MENNINGER CLINIC | $20,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- AAARCHWAY ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $255k · revenue +21%
- RREMIND8× · 2018–2025 · $245k · revenue +9%
- TMTHE MENNINGER CLINIC7× · 2019–2025 · $200k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- DADepression and Bipolar Support Allione grant, 2017 · $25k
- MHMEMORIAL HERMANN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICESone grant, 2023 · $15k
- ESEASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +15%
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.
Serenity Retreat exists to equip all generations in a prayer process that allows for a transformational encounter with God.
Our continuing mission is to change the lives of those who suffer from alcohol and drug addiction.
Communities for Recovery supports long-term recovery for people with substance use and co-occurring mental health issues by partnering with other organizations in the community to provide peer-supported recovery services.
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.
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.
Endeavors Health Services Board provides in-person and virtual, high-quality, accessible and integrated behavioral healthcare to the community.
Our mission is to provide accessible high-quality counseling, training, psychological evaluations, and educational testing that equip our clients to grow through lifes changes and challenges.
To provide licensed substance use and mental health disorder treatment to those affected by substance and mental health issues.
Relate has provided community based mental and chemical health services since 1969. Our mission is to provide high-quality, culturally responsive, inclusive mental health services to our community. Relate is an Essential Community…
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.
Amazing Place empowers families facing the challenges of dementia and Alzheimer's and advances brain health for all. The Organization serves adults with mild cognitive impairment and mild to moderate dementia, caregiving families and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Centro De Corazon and the most unlike its peers is Tgp Public Schools. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 34 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 ARCHWAY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds REMIND ↗
- Who funds THE MENNINGER CLINIC ↗
- Who funds The Council on Recovery ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO DE CORAZON ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Open Door Mission ↗
- Who funds Bo's Place ↗
- Who funds Counseling Connections for Change Inc ↗
- Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds TGP Public Schools ↗
- Who funds SOLEANA STABLES ↗
- Who funds Teen & Family Services ↗
- Who funds PASSAGES INC ↗
- Who funds BE PEACE - BE HOPE ↗
- Who funds Institute for Spirituality and Health at the Texas Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Sharpen Recovery ↗
- Who funds Memorial Hermann Foundation ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON ACHIEVEMENT PLACE ↗
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 · Marek Family Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · John S Dunn Foundation · Hamill Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Strake Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company 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 Ruth Jones Macdonald 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.