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The Edward and Dorothy Vickery Family Foundation at a glance

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The Edward and Dorothy Vickery Family 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.

$13k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Religion$71kHealth$6kHuman Services$4kRecreation & Sports$3kInternational$3kAnimals$2kHousing & Shelter$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$550Other$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$382k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUSTIN PRESBYTERIAN THEOLOGICAL SEM$5,000
THE BIBLE SEMINARY$1,000
ROTHKO CHAPEL$1,000
CAMP PENIEL$1,000
WESTLAND BAPTIST CHURCH$1,000
THE WOMEN'S HOME$1,000
HOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY$1,000
FAMILY HOPE$500
SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH$400
TEXAS EXES$350
AMERICAN RED CROSS$300
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$67k · 3 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
16

Total granted

$67k
$16k

Still filing today

0%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsInternationalEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AP
    AUSTIN PRESBYTERIAN THEOLOGICAL SEM
    3× · 2022–2024 · $65k
  • FH
    FAMILY HOPE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1k
  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $550

Funded once

  • TS
    The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue -4%
  • C
    CONVIVENTIA
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +7%
  • MC
    MISSION CRITICAL INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -40%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
LifeHouse of Houston Inc

LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.

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2
Houston Pets Alive

Houston Pets Alive!s (HPA!) mission is to save the lives of at-risk companion cats and dogs and find them loving homes.

Animals
3
The Methodist Hospital

To provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a spiritual environment of caring in association with internationally recognized teaching and research.

Health
4
The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center

The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center holds a freestanding 37 bed inpatient facility in the Texas Medical Center that is operated and managed by Houston Hospice.

Human Services
5
Laurels House

Laurel's House strengthens the human animal bond improves public health decreases the number of companion animal euthanasia due to overpopulation and diminishes human impact on native wildlife species by providing unprecedented access to…

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6
Covenant HomeCare

Covenant HomeCare provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
7
The Methodist Hospital Foundation

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…

Health
8
Hospice of South Texas Inc

Hospice care of terminally ill patients

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9
Humane Society of Harris County

Humane Society of Harris County's mission remains steadfast: to provide high-quality adoption, transport, foster, Trap, neuter, release, and pet food pantry services to our community. Yet, with a fresh perspective and a renewed passion,…

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10
Harris County Medical Society

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…

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11
Houston's Amazing Place Inc

Amazing Place empowers families facing the challenges of dementia and Alzheimer's and advances brain health for all. The Organization serves adults with mild cognitive impairment and mild to moderate dementia, caregiving families and…

Human Services
12
Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc

Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Star of Hope Mission; the most unlike its peers is The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AUSTIN PRESBYTERIAN THEOLOGICAL SEM: $65,000 · OtherAUSTIN PRESBYTERIAN THEOLOGICAL SEM+14 more: $9,086 · Other+14 moreThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $3,500 · HealthCINCO CHARITIES INC: $2,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC: $250 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $250 · HealthCONVIVENTIA: $2,500 · InternationalMISSION CRITICAL INTERNATIONAL: $2,500 · InternationalHOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 · AnimalsHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $250 · AnimalsCitizens For Animal Protection Inc: $250 · AnimalsTHE BIBLE SEMINARY: $1,000 · EducationEX-STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF UT: $350 · EducationKATY CARES INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionTHE WOMEN'S HOME: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$74,086Health$6,000International$5,000Animals$1,500Education$1,350Food & Nutrition$1,000Human Services$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONVIVENTIA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMISSION CRITICAL INTERNATIONAL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCINCO CHARITIES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKATY CARES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BIBLE SEMINARY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S HOME: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP PENIEL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRothko Chapel: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEX-STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF UT: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens For Animal Protection Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Shell USA Company Fou…Greater Houston Commu…The Ayco Charitable F…The Blackbaud Giving …Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for Good
Shell USA Company FoundationTX22.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Edward and Dorothy Vickery Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Edward and Dorothy Vickery Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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