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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.

$18M
Granted FY2025still arriving
50
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$9.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$60MRecreation & Sports$9.7MYouth Development$2.6MCommunity Improvement$1.5MEducation$1.2MArts & Culture$860kHuman Services$714kCrime & Legal$646kOther$0
02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 50 grants below total $17,843,074, the rows itemized in this filing. The $18,314,495 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $471,421 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $592k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $306k
  • $250k+2 grants · $17M
$12,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$9.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS CHILDREN'S GLOBAL$9,533,737
TCH PEDIATRIC ASSOCIATES INC$7,324,348
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE HOUSTON$150,000
MARCH OF DIMES$80,000
TEXAS CHILDREN'S PHYSICIAN GROUP$75,847
FRIENDS OF THE ABC ZILKER PARK KITE FESTIVAL INC$43,000
ROUND ROCK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATON$40,618
HOUSTON BALLET FOUNDATION$35,000
SPRING ISD$34,000
TEXAS CHILDREN'S URGENT CARE$33,274
GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION$32,500
THE IMMUNIZATION PARTNERSHIP$25,000
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF HOUSTON$25,000
YES TO YOUTH - MONTGOMERY COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES$23,000
KIDS' MEALS$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $785k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%High Point Village: $10k → 17%YES TO YOUTH - MONTGOMERY COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES: $23k → 9%Hand to Hold: $25k → 10%YES to YOUTH - Montgomery County Youth Services: $10k → 9%ANGEL REACH: $10k → 9%Hand to Hold: $10k → 10%HAND TO HOLD: $6k → 10%Inspiration Ranch: $6k → 9%Covenant House: $10k → 17%GENUINE FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%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: $6k → 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: $20k → 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
MA
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$75M · 121 repeat orgs$21M to everyone else

121 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 82 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

121
114

Total granted

$75M
$12M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+17%

Still filing today

92%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    9× · 2017–2025 · $62M · revenue +32%
  • HP
    Houston Parks Board
    3× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +54%
  • TJ
    The Junior League of Houston Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $950k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • US
    UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $7.5M · revenue +59%
  • Camp For All Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $2.3M · revenue +12%
  • QF
    Qtego Fundraising Services
    one grant, 2023 · $130k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
Children's Cancer Fund of Dallas inc

Children's cancer fund champions kids in their fight against cancer through strategic investments in research and care in north texas.

Health
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
Texas Heart Medical Group

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

Health
9
Texas Children's Urgent Care

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

Health
10
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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11
Trees for Houston

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

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12
Dell Children's Medical Group

Rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. Our Catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Educational Foundation of the Southeast Texas Chapter Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

227 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 227 of the 249 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
43
Early backer (in before they grew)
221/227
Grantees still filing
141/227
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TCH Pediatric Associates Inc: $61,829,364 · HealthTCH Pediatric Associates Inc+50 more: $4,476,723 · Health+50 moreTEXAS CHILDREN'S GLOBAL: $9,533,737 · EducationTEXAS CHILDR…+21 more: $1,113,183 · Education+21 moreUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $7,500,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED ST…+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: $237,000 · PhilanthropyThe Periwinkle Foundation: $92,500 · Philanthropy+11 more: $327,250 · PhilanthropyInstitute for Spirituality and Health at the Texas Medical Center: $255,000 · OtherThe Houston Food Bank: $190,000 · 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+87 more: $3,557,039 · OtherThe Junior League of Houston Inc: $950,000 · 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 ImprovementHouston Junior Woman's Club: $47,800 · Community Improvement+5 more: $88,639 · Community Improvement
Health$66,306,087Education$10,646,920Recreation & Sports$7,742,743Youth Development$2,536,254Philanthropy$2,230,099Other$5,556,794Community Improvement$1,410,609

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTCH Pediatric Associates Inc: $61,829,364 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetTEXAS CHILDREN'S GLOBAL: $9,533,737 over 1y, 100% 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: $1,327,500 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetThe Junior League of Houston Inc: $950,000 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $605,000 over 9y, 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: $335,600 over 9y, 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: $237,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAIDS FOUNDATION HOUSTON INC: $210,783 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGood Samaritan Foundation of Texas Inc: $207,131 over 8y, 8.4% of budgetSPORTS AUTHORITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $190,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budgetThe Blue Bird Circle: $172,500 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetHOUSTON'S CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC: $170,170 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTEXAS MEDICAL CENTER ORCHESTRA: $150,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetJohn P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science: $145,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetROUND ROCK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $142,229 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetAssociation of Fundraising Professionals - Golden Gate Chapter: $136,330 over 5y, 18% of budgetChildren's Assessment Center Foundation: $132,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST & LOUISIANA INC: $130,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH: $125,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AT THE WOODLANDS: $125,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE IMMUNIZATION PARTNERSHIP: $105,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc: $103,000 over 7y, 0.1% 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 Periwinkle Foundation: $92,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $91,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $90,000 over 4y, 0.2% 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 budgetChildren At Risk: $80,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetDOCTORS FOR CHANGE: $75,875 over 2y, 44% of budgetTEXAS CHILDREN'S PHYSICIAN GROUP: $75,847 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ABC ZILKER PARK KITE FESTIVAL INC: $73,000 over 2y, 87% of budgetTHE CURE STARTS NOW INC: $72,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetThe Brenda & John H Duncan Rise School of Houston: $71,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMen of Distinction of Greater Houston: $67,500 over 5y, 5.0% of budget
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Texas Children's Hospital funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Texas Children's Hospital. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 249 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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