· Private foundation
The Edith and Robert Zinn Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMERY WEINER SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| VITA-LIVING INC | $20,000 |
| CHILD BUILDERS | $15,000 |
| THE LIGHTHOUSE OF HOUSTON | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR PURSUIT | $10,000 |
| TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCATES INC | $10,000 |
| EVELYN RUBENSTEIN JCC | $10,000 |
| JB GOLDBERG B'NAI B'RITH TOWERS | $7,000 |
| NEUHAUS EDUCATION CENTER | $5,000 |
| TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER ORCHESTRA | $4,000 |
| CAMP ARANZAZU | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $182k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +23% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 3 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE2× · 2021–2022 · $100k · revenue +10%
- CCHILDBUILDERS8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +10%
- CACHILD ADVOCATES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNITED WAY INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -15%
- HGHOUSTON GALVESTON INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +14%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.
The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…
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 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.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
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.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.
Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…
Improve air quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by supporting and enabling the greater houston area to increase ev adoption.
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…
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Depelchin Children's Center and the most unlike its peers is Ocean Conservancy. 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 43 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) — 0% 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.
38 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. 38 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 JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds CHILDBUILDERS ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds Lighthouse For The Blind Of Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds VITA LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PURSUIT ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
- Who funds TECHNOSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON GALVESTON INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds The W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation ↗
- Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds Camp Aranzazu Inc ↗
- Who funds PURSUIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TGP Public Schools ↗
- Who funds HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS-HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds INDIA DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds COMP-U-DOPT INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Public Media Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS ↗
- Who funds Literacy Texas ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE PROTECTION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds AVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Elkins Foundation · Strake Foundation · The Brodsky Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Fondren Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The William Stamps Farish 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 Edith and Robert Zinn 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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