· Private foundation
The CT Bauer 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k19 grants · $505k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
- $250k+3 grants · $3.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UH College of Business Foundation | $1,843,000 |
| University of Houston - Downtown | $815,000 |
| Camp For All Foundation | $512,500 |
| Texas Southern University | $80,000 |
| Yellowstone Academy | $40,000 |
| Small Steps Nurturing Center | $40,000 |
| Houston Zoo Inc | $35,000 |
| KIPP Texas Inc | $35,000 |
| Foundation for Teen Health | $35,000 |
| Cristo Rey Jesuit College Preparatory School of Houston | $30,000 |
| YES Prep Public Schools | $30,000 |
| Roxbury Latin School Inc | $30,000 |
| Teach for America Inc | $30,000 |
| Chinquapin Preparatory School | $30,000 |
| FEI Houston Scholarship Foundation | $28,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Camp For All Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $585k · revenue +327%- SSSmall Steps Nurturing Center8× · 2017–2024 · $540k · revenue +64%
Houston Zoo Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $280k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- HIHouston Ind School District Foundatone grant, 2017 · $400k
- TFTrees For Houstonone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -50%
- WHWORKSHOP HOUSTONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +28%
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.
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.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…
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…
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…
Good Reason Houston strives to grow and sustain great schools while advocating for families and communities.
See Schedule OThe purpose of Awty International School (Awty) is to create an environment where students experience excellence every day to make their mark on the world alongside their community, in a spirit of curiosity, courage and…
Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…
See Schedule O. The Fay School ("the School") is a nonsectarian, not-for-profit, co-educational school in which children of diverse talents and backgrounds with strong academic abilities are offered a high-quality education in a secure,…
MADE Houston was formed to create a school community focused on nurturing and developing the unique academic and social needs of students with learning differences and to successfully transition students into mainstream schools.
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
KIPP, the Knowledge Is Power Program, is committed to developing in underserved students the academic skills, intellectual habits, and qualities of character necessary to succeed at all levels of pre-kindergarten through 12th grade,…
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston's mission is to inspire and enable all youth, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Camp For All Foundation ↗
- Who funds Small Steps Nurturing Center ↗
- Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Trees For Houston ↗
- Who funds CHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds YES Prep Public Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds KIPP Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds FEI HOUSTON SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Monarch School Monarch Institute for Neurological Diff ↗
- Who funds SPARK ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON TSCPA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR TEEN HEALTH ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bo's Place ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Houston ↗
- Who funds WORKSHOP HOUSTON ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Tapeats Fund · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · CFP Foundation · J Squared Family Foundation · The Susan Vaughan Foundation Inc · John P McGovern Foundation · The Powell Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The CT Bauer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The CT Bauer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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