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Texas Medical Center Foundation
Provide support to the texas medical center.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $244,357 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $292,432 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $48,075 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HLTH LLC | $50,000 |
| NAIOP Commercial Real Estate Development | $30,000 |
| GREATER HOUSTON PARTNERSHIP | $30,000 |
| Covenant House Texas | $25,000 |
| BioHouston Inc | $20,000 |
| Houston Zoo Inc | $15,000 |
| Land of the Free Foundation | $15,000 |
| DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER | $10,000 |
| Texas Healthcare & Bioscience Institute | $10,000 |
| The Will Erwin Headache Research Foundation | $10,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS | $10,000 |
| American City Business Journals Inc | $8,000 |
| Compass Group | $6,175 |
| Houston Park Boards | $5,182 |
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 (FY21–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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
- TETEXAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION2× · 2017–2018 · $400k · revenue +3%
- BCBaylor College of Medicine4× · 2017–2020 · $395k · revenue +67%
- UOUniversity of St Thomas4× · 2021–2024 · $44k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- THTexas Heart Instituteone grant, 2018 · $203k · revenue 0%
- AAAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THORACIC SURGERYone grant, 2017 · $120k · revenue +10%
- CSCLAYTON SERICES INC DBA MONTEREY BAY INVITATIONALone grant, 2022 · $98k
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.
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…
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
To provide cutting-edge cardiac care to diagnose, treat, and prevent cardiovascular diseases.
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…
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,…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
To provide broader recognition of the state's top achievers in medicine, engineering and science, and to build a stronger identity for texas as an important destination and center of achievement in these fields.
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,…
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…
As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Children's Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Covenant House Texas. 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 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 36 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 TEXAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds Greater Houston Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds Harris County Hospital District Foundation ↗
- Who funds Texas Heart Institute ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THORACIC SURGERY ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds BIOHOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds NAIOP COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION - HOUSTON CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds THE WILL ERWIN HEADACHE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Houston Academy of Medicine ↗
- Who funds LAND OF THE FREE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds TROOPS FIRST FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TEXAS HEALTHCARE & BIOSCIENCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Medical Bridges Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds Men of Distinction of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds Houston Parks Board ↗
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 · Memorial Hermann Health System · Texas Children's Hospital · The Methodist Hospital · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Medical Center 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.
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