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The Edaren Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k14 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION | $60,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY OF TEXAS | $50,000 |
| ART MUSEUM OF SE TEXAS | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| ART LEAGUE HOUSTON | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| BIG THICKET ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| ARMAND BAYOU NATURE CENTER | $15,000 |
| AFA AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| COASTAL PRAIRIE CONSERVANCY | $15,000 |
| BEAUMONT BOTANICAL GARDENS | $15,000 |
| GREEN SPACES ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| FORT WORTH BOTANIC GARDENS | $10,000 |
| YOUNG AUDIENCES OF HOUSTON | $10,000 |
| BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Edaren Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 93% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- BCBeaumont Community Players Inc dba Southeast Texas Stages7× · 2017–2024 · $241k · revenue +0%
- SMSCIENCE MILL6× · 2017–2023 · $180k · revenue +58%
- AFASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS TEXAS INC4× · 2017–2023 · $140k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- MGMAGNOLIA GARDEN CLUBone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -57% · 40% of their budget
- CSCHRISTUS SE TEXAS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $75k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INCone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +10%
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.
The Big Thicket Biosphere Reserve's mission is community-based conservation to reconnect people with the natural and cultural environment while promoting sustainable economic growth in Southeast Texas.
The texas state aquarium's mission is engaging people with animals, inspiring appreciation for our seas, and supporting wildlife conservation. its vision is to be a global leader in fostering support for the conservation of the gulf of…
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
The mission of the Houston Arboretum & Nature Center is to provide education about the natural environment to people of all ages and to protect and enhance the Arboretum as a haven and sanctuary for native plants and animals.
Advancement of education and skill in the art of Landscape Architecture and the promotion of the profession of Landscape Architecture as an instrument of service in the public welfare.
To advance the conservation of birds and their habitats in the Greater Houston Gulf Coast region by acquiring and maintaining critical habitat as bird sanctuaries, providing education programs and nature experiences, and advocating policy…
TexARTS is an arts education and performance destination that builds character, professionalism, and careers. Its mission is to cultivate a thriving arts community by exposing all people to the visual and performing arts. TexARTS prepares…
The artist boat, inc. is dedicated to promoting awareness and preservation of coastal margins and the marine environment through the disciplines of the sciences and the arts.
The mission of the san antonio botanical garden is "enriching lives through plants and nature." nowhere else in the south-central texas region are people and plants brought together in such a biologically diverse museum of plants and…
To inspire and enchant lives through a variety of theatrical experiences at the highest level of artistic excellence with our Resident Acting Company at the center
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Conservation Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Beaumont Botanical Gardens Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 54 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 Beaumont Community Players Inc dba Southeast Texas Stages ↗
- Who funds Big Thicket Association ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MILL ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Da Camera Society of Texas ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA GARDEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds SYMPHONY OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Conservation Alliance ↗
- Who funds ART LEAGUE OF HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds MAGIK CHILDRENS THEATRE OF SAN ANTONIO DBA THE MAGIK THEATRE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Lone Star Coastal Alliance ↗
- Who funds Armand Bayou Nature Center Inc ↗
- Who funds The Art Studio Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BEAUMONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds Some Other Place ↗
- Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LONGVIEW MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Writers in the Schools ↗
- Who funds Urban Roots NTX ↗
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 · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Union Pacific Foundation · Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation · Mechia Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · He and Kate Dishman Charitable Trust · Strake Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable 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 Edaren 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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