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The Dunham Charitable Foundation CO Westwood Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Second Baptist Church | $30,000 |
| Houston Christian University Foundation | $30,000 |
| Tumaini International Foundation | $25,000 |
| Tutorville Foundation | $20,000 |
| Ocean Institute | $10,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Miracle Farm | $10,000 |
| ELEVATED COMMUNITY HEALTH | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NEW HEART OF TEXAS MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| Star of Hope | $5,000 |
| MOLLY BROWN HOUSE MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| TRINITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| The First Tee of Greater Houston | $1,000 |
| THE EATING DISORDERS NETWORK | $1,000 |
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, $55k) 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.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- HCHOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2023 · $211k · revenue +62%
- MHMemorial Hermann Foundation6× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +179%
- SCSUMMIT COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC7× · 2019–2025 · $55k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- TGTHE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
FIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +94%- LALOS ANGELES ARTS AND ATHLETICSone grant, 2018 · $20k
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.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
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…
Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.
To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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,…
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…
Mission: this organization is part of the methodist hospital, doing business as houston methodist hospital, whose mission is: to provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a…
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
Our mission is to shape the future of finance by developing leaders whose innovation, investment excellence, and human-centered leadership advance the industry and its adjacent sectors.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Hermann Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Orange County Opera Inc. 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 25 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 38 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 HOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds Memorial Hermann Foundation ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds TUMAINI INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds OCEAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Deep Vellum Publishing Inc ↗
- Who funds INSPIRE WOMEN ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Helping a HeroOrg ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW HEART OF TEXAS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds His Grace Foundation ↗
- Who funds TRINITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Golf Association Youth Program Inc dba First Tee of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Lower Blue River ↗
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 · Shell USA Company Foundation · Strake Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Dunham Charitable Foundation CO Westwood Trust 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.
- First Americans Museum Foundation — 1% 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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