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Texas Children's Hospital

Texas Children's Hospital, headquartered in houston, texas, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.

$13M
Granted FY2024still arriving
86
Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$7.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$60MRecreation & Sports$9.7MYouth Development$2.6MCommunity Improvement$1.5MEducation$1.2MArts & Culture$860kHuman Services$714kCrime & Legal$646kOther$0
02FY2024 · 86 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k59 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+3 grants · $11M
$15,000
Median grant
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States reached
$8.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TCH Pediatric Associates Inc$7,000,000
Camp for All$2,250,000
Houston Parks Board$1,500,000
Ronald McDonald House Houston$157,500
Cristo Rey Work Study Program$143,570
Junior League of Houston$120,000
Texans For Lawsuit Reform$100,000
American Heart Association - AHA$100,000
Houston Food Bank$80,000
March of Dimes$80,000
Good Samaritan Foundation$69,500
Sports in Action LLC$60,638
Texas Medical Center Orchestra$50,000
Compassionate Touch$50,000
YMCA of Greater Houston$46,250
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $715k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%High Point Village: $10k → 17%YES to YOUTH - Montgomery County Youth Services: $10k → 9%ANGEL REACH: $10k → 9%Hand to Hold: $25k → 10%Inspiration Ranch: $6k → 9%Hand to Hold: $10k → 10%Covenant House: $10k → 17%West Houston Leadership Institute: $5k → 16%PURPLE SONGS CAN FLY: $10k → 16%His Grace Foundation: $6k → 16%Center for Pursuit: $18k → 16%Harrison's Heroes: $5k → 16%YMCA: $150k → 16%YMCA of Greater Houston: $90k → 16%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA: $80k → 16%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA: $75k → 16%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA: $67k → 16%YMCA of Greater Houston: $11k → 16%National Hemophilia Foundation - Lone Star Chapter of the National Hemophil: $5k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $15k → 16%DePelchin's Children Center: $8k → 16%Championship Hearts Foundation: $10k → 16%Latin Women's Initiative: $5k → 16%Championship Hearts Foundation: $5k → 16%The Sanctuary Foster Care Services: $15k → 16%The Sanctuary Foster Care Services: $10k → 16%Kids' Meals: $25k → 16%Kids' Meals: $15k → 16%Association of Advanced Mexican Americans - AAMA: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$67M · 109 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

109 repeat relationships — 63 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

109
105

Total granted

$67M
$9.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+22%

Still filing today

92%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • TP
    TCH Pediatric Associates Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $55M · revenue +29%
  • HP
    Houston Parks Board
    3× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +54%
  • TJ
    The Junior League of Houston Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $925k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • US
    UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $7.5M · revenue +59%
  • QF
    Qtego Fundraising Services
    one grant, 2023 · $130k
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AT THE WOODLANDSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue +40%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Texas Children's

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.

Health
2
Texas Children's Hospital

Texas children's hospital, headquartered in houston, texas, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and…

Health
3
Trees for Houston

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

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4
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

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,…

Health
5
Harris County Medical Society

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…

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6
Mhs Physicians of Texas

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,…

Health
7
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
8
Memorial Hermann Health System

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,…

Health
9
Texas Heart Medical Group

To provide cutting-edge cardiac care to diagnose, treat, and prevent cardiovascular diseases.

Health
10
Collaborative for Children

The mission of Collaborative for Children is to meaningfully improve the quality of early childhood education and care for Greater Houston's children through those most influential in their lives.

Human Services
11
Breakthrough Houston

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.

Education
12
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Educational Foundation of the Southeast Texas Chapter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Champions Have Heart Foundation. 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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%1%<5yr16%6%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr10%27%35–55yr13%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%39%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr10%22%35–55yr13%18%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%2/235
the rest of the field
15%
20,231/136,569

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.

04the grantee network

218 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. 218 of the 238 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
212/218
Grantees still filing
136/218
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TCH Pediatric Associates Inc — $54,505,016 · HealthTCH Pediatric Associates Inc+52 more — $4,076,602 · Health+52 moreUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION — $7,500,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STAT…+4 more — $242,743 · Recreation & SportsCamp For All Foundation — $2,250,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $177,500 · Youth Development+3 more — $108,754 · Youth DevelopmentHouston Parks Board — $1,573,349 · PhilanthropyASTROS GOLF FOUNDATION — $227,000 · PhilanthropyThe Periwinkle Foundation — $92,500 · Philanthropy+11 more — $250,750 · PhilanthropyInstitute for Spirituality and Health at the Texas Medical Center — $255,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER HOUSTON — $185,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $311,057 · OtherYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area — $518,950 · OtherTexans for Lawsuit Reform — $385,000 · OtherCristo Rey Work Study Program Inc — $339,748 · Other+86 more — $3,319,744 · OtherThe Junior League of Houston Inc — $925,000 · Community ImprovementHOUSTON'S CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC — $170,170 · Community ImprovementGreater Houston Area Women's Chamber of Commerce — $89,000 · Community ImprovementUpper Kirby District Foundation — $65,000 · Community Improvement+5 more — $108,439 · Community ImprovementGood Samaritan Foundation of Texas Inc — $174,631 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH — $125,000 · EducationTexas A&M Foundation — $97,500 · EducationThe Brookwood Community Inc — $93,000 · EducationLENA FOUNDATION — $82,302 · EducationThe Brenda & John H Duncan Rise School of Houston — $64,000 · EducationUniversity of St Thomas — $50,000 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice University — $45,500 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $45,000 · EducationTEXAS A&M RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $45,000 · Education+12 more — $187,750 · Education
Health$58,581,618Recreation & Sports$7,742,743Youth Development$2,536,254Philanthropy$2,143,599Other$5,314,499Community Improvement$1,357,609Education$1,009,683

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTCH Pediatric Associates Inc — $54,505,016 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION — $7,500,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCamp For All Foundation — $2,250,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHouston Parks Board — $1,573,349 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC — $1,177,500 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetThe Junior League of Houston Inc — $925,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $525,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area — $518,950 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTexans for Lawsuit Reform — $385,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetCristo Rey Work Study Program Inc — $339,748 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $320,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $311,057 over 5y, 11% of budgetInstitute for Spirituality and Health at the Texas Medical Center — $255,000 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetASTROS GOLF FOUNDATION — $227,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAIDS FOUNDATION HOUSTON INC — $210,783 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSPORTS AUTHORITY FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetEASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC — $180,563 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $177,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGood Samaritan Foundation of Texas Inc — $174,631 over 7y, 8.4% of budgetHOUSTON'S CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC — $170,170 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $170,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Blue Bird Circle — $160,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetTEXAS MEDICAL CENTER ORCHESTRA — $150,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetAssociation of Fundraising Professionals - Golden Gate Chapter — $136,330 over 5y, 18% of budgetJohn P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science — $135,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AT THE WOODLANDS — $125,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH — $125,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetChildren's Assessment Center Foundation — $122,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST & LOUISIANA INC — $115,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetROUND ROCK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $101,611 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetHermann Park Conservancy — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNora's Gift Foundation Inc — $99,225 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation — $97,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc — $93,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Periwinkle Foundation — $92,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF TEXAS — $91,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetGreater Houston Area Women's Chamber of Commerce — $89,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetLENA FOUNDATION — $82,302 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE IMMUNIZATION PARTNERSHIP — $80,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetChildren At Risk — $80,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetDOCTORS FOR CHANGE — $75,875 over 2y, 44% of budgetTHE CURE STARTS NOW INC — $72,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUpper Kirby District Foundation — $65,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetThe Brenda & John H Duncan Rise School of Houston — $64,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ANGELMAN SYNDROME THERAPEUTICS — $60,075 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON — $60,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHouston Zoo Inc — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Houston Commu…The Methodist HospitalMemorial Hermann Heal…Albert & Ethel Herzst…Strake FoundationHouston Endowment IncShell USA Company Fou…Harry S & Isabel C Ca…The Junior League of …Astros FoundationThe William Stamps Fa…The Powell Foundation
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX67.1× affinity76 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · Memorial Hermann Health System · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Strake Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Junior League of Houston Inc · Astros Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Powell 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 Texas Children's Hospital 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    8get no government money at all
    26report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Texas Children's Hospital?

    Find your warmest path to Texas Children's Hospital through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 238 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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