· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $420k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RE MIND | $30,000 |
| NICK FINNEGAN COUNSELING CENTER | $30,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH | $25,000 |
| BO'S PLACE | $25,000 |
| OPEN DOOR MISSION | $25,000 |
| BE PEACE - BE HOPE | $25,000 |
| SOLEANA STABLES | $25,000 |
| HOPE AND HEALING CENTER | $25,000 |
| SHARPEN RECOVERY | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE COUNCIL ON RECOVERY | $20,000 |
| COUNSELING CONNECTIONS FOR CHANGE | $20,000 |
| ARCHWAY ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| THE MENNINGER CLINIC | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AAARCHWAY ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $255k · revenue +21%
- RREMIND8× · 2018–2025 · $245k · revenue +32%
- 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
- UOUniversity of Houston Clear Lakeone grant, 2021 · $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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
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 34 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 Institute for Spirituality and Health at the Texas Medical Center ↗
- Who funds BE PEACE - BE HOPE ↗
- Who funds Sharpen Recovery ↗
- Who funds Memorial Hermann Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON ACHIEVEMENT PLACE ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ruth Jones Macdonald Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruth Jones Macdonald Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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