· Private foundation
The Clayton Fund Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k33 grants · $885k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast | $250,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America | $220,000 |
| BETA FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| SAN MIGUEL-CASA INC | $150,000 |
| ANNUNCIATION ORTHODOX SCHOOL | $120,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PUMPKIN PARK | $100,000 |
| Prison Entrepreneurship Program INC | $100,000 |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $100,000 |
| BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC | $75,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD CAMERON COUNTY | $70,000 |
| ACCESS ESPERANZA CLINICS INC | $60,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA INC | $60,000 |
| Houston Area Women's Center | $50,000 |
| THE WOMENS HOME | $50,000 |
| MARYLAND SCIENCE CENTER | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 12 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $660k 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
- PPPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +5%
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2019–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +19%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC6× · 2019–2024 · $875k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- THTarget Hunger Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue +68%
- TOTrustees of Princeton Universityone grant, 2023 · $100k
- HBHOUSTON BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -26%
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.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
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…
See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…
See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.
Community information now (cinow) provides data, tools, analysis, and training to inform decisions to improve texas communities. cinow's vision is improved lives and decreased disparities through democratized data.
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…
Central houston civic improvement lnc.'s mission is to ensure the continued vitality and to support development of downtown and the central city that is critical to the continued health and growth of houston.
Good Reason Houston strives to grow and sustain great schools while advocating for families and communities.
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.
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 Houston Parks Board mission is to expand, improve, and protect parks and greenspace in the Houston region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans and the most unlike its peers is South Texas Advancement Resource. 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 37 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 1% 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.
105 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. 105 of the 124 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 Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL-CASA INC ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE VIEW A&M FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS ESPERANZA CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds TEENSMART INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Cameron County ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds TEXAS EDUCATION WORKS ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S AND MEN'S HEALTH SERVICES OF THE COASTAL BEND INC ↗
- Who funds CHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SPAULDING FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Hospice ↗
- Who funds Houston Area Women's Center ↗
- Who funds PCI-MEDIA IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BETA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds Urban Harvest Inc ↗
- Who funds RESTORE AMERICA'S ESTUARIES ↗
- Who funds Galveston Bay Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ENGENDERHEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds Witherspoon Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Target Hunger Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ↗
- Who funds ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Hope and Healing Center & Institute ↗
- Who funds Friends of Pumpkin Park ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
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: The Brown Foundation Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Strake Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Elkins Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Powell Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Shell USA Company Foundation · John P McGovern 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 The Clayton Fund Inc 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.
- World Neighbors Inc — 46% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Maryland Academy of Sciences — 9% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Washington College — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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.
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