· Private foundation
The Attwell Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARMEL ART ASSOCIATION | $8,000 |
| HARRIS COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| CITY CHURCH INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $4,000 |
| HERMANN PARK CONSERVANCY | $2,500 |
| GALA HISPANIC THEATER | $2,500 |
| HOUSTON SPCA | $2,200 |
| TEXAS EQUUSEARCH | $2,200 |
| AUSTIN PETS ALIVE | $1,800 |
| THE PLANO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,700 |
| OPERATION KINDNESS | $1,700 |
| SERTOMA BUTTERFLY HOUSE | $1,700 |
| THE CATO INSTITUTE | $1,700 |
| HABITAT FOR HORSES INC | $1,700 |
| THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE | $1,700 |
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 (FY19–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
39 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- HCHarris County Hospital District Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +12%
- TCTexas Children's Hospital7× · 2018–2024 · $17k · revenue +58%
Hermann Park Conservancy8× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- CPCENTRAL PAIN SYNDROME FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $8k
- CHCHARTLEY HOUSEone grant, 2018 · $7k
- DDCECone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Houston Pets Alive!s (HPA!) mission is to save the lives of at-risk companion cats and dogs and find them loving homes.
The spca of texas is dedicated to providing every animal exceptional care and a loving home.
The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…
Laurel's House strengthens the human animal bond improves public health decreases the number of companion animal euthanasia due to overpopulation and diminishes human impact on native wildlife species by providing unprecedented access to…
The mission of San Antonio Pets Alive! is to save every adoptable dog and cat in danger of being killed at the City of San Antonio Shelter.
Rescue neglected, unwanted homeless dogs and cats nurture and provide shelter until they are placed with a forever family strive to reduce animal overpopulation prevent cruelty to animals teach responsible pet ownership through an outreach…
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
Mission: Connect communities with animals, inspiring action to save wildlife. Vision: Be a leader in the global movement to save wildlife. (Continued on Schedule O) Houston Zoo, Inc. (HZI) strives to be a zoo that practices exemplary…
Citizens for Animal Protection, Inc. (CAP) cares for pets in need through sheltering, adoption, humane education, spay/neuter services, low-cost wellness, and community outreach. CAP fulfills its mission by focusing on enhancing the lives…
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Kindness and the most unlike its peers is Carmel Art Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
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 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 62 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 Harris County Hospital District Foundation ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds Hermann Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PLANO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GALA INC GRUPO DE ARTISTAS LATINO AMERICANOS ↗
- Who funds SCENIC HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds City Wildlife Inc ↗
- Who funds POPLAR SPRING ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Carmel Art Association ↗
- Who funds K-9 ANGELS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOMELESS ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds WIMBERLEY ADOPTION GROUP AND RESCUE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY TEXAS ↗
- Who funds ROLLINS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Rock Creek Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds Crisis Breadbasket ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARNABAS CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds THE HUB HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Verizon Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 The Attwell 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.
- Rock Creek Conservancy Inc — 60% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
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.