· Private foundation
Stedman West Foundation (Fka Neva and Wesley West Foundation)
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 75% of STEDMAN WEST FOUNDATION (FKA NEVA AND WESLEY WEST FOUNDATION)’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $250k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $700k
- $250k+2 grants · $615k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY (UCSD) | $350,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-AUSTIN (CAMPUS BEAUTIFICATION COUNCIL) | $265,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $200,000 |
| CAESAR KLEBERG WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE KINGSVILLE | $125,000 |
| THE MENNINGER CLINIC | $100,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - JEFFERSON CENTER | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-AUSTIN (CAMPUS BEAUTIFICATION COUNCIL) | $75,000 |
| HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NAVY SEAL MUSEUM SAN DIEGO | $50,000 |
| HOUSTON GRAND OPERA | $40,000 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST | $25,000 |
| YES PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $20,000 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 6 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $820k 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
- TMTHE MENNINGER CLINIC5× · 2020–2024 · $738k · revenue +25%
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $285k · revenue +24%- YPYES Prep Public Schools Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- STST THOMAS MORE CATHLOIC HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $100k
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINone grant, 2022 · $100k
- MHMemorial Hermann Foundationone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +13%
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 mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…
The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
To provide cutting-edge cardiac care to diagnose, treat, and prevent cardiovascular diseases.
Lone Star Flight Museum (LSFM) celebrates flight and achievements in Texas aviation, engages youth through STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), and believes aviation inspires achievement and endless possibilities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Hermann Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 44 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 THE MENNINGER CLINIC ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YES Prep Public Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Memorial Hermann Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds Texas 2036 ↗
- Who funds South Texas Charity Weekend Inc ↗
- Who funds John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science ↗
- Who funds TIRR Foundation ↗
- Who funds St John's School ↗
- Who funds THE COMPASS SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Crime Stoppers of Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds Menil Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Small Steps Nurturing Center ↗
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 · Strake Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Mechia Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Florence and William K McGee Jr Family Foundation · Hobby Family Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The Crain Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · The Elkins 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 Stedman West Foundation (Fka Neva and Wesley West Foundation) 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.