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The Ellwood 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k44 grants · $875k
- $50k–250k22 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BROOKWOOD COMMUNITY | $160,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $160,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $160,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL | $130,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $100,000 |
| THE CENTER FOUNDATION | $90,000 |
| MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| BRIARWOOD SCHOOL | $80,000 |
| STRAKE JESUIT LEARNING RESOURCE | $75,000 |
| HUB HOUSTON | $75,000 |
| AWARE ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $70,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCATES | $60,000 |
| TIRR FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| HOSPICE AT TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER | $60,000 |
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 (FY18–21, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 87% 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.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- TBTHE BRIARWOOD SCHOOL6× · 2018–2024 · $540k · revenue +22%
- THTHE HUB HOUSTON INC6× · 2018–2024 · $385k · revenue +122%
- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF HOUSTON6× · 2018–2024 · $350k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER HOUSTONone grant, 2018 · $120k
- TCTHE CENTER FOUNDATION 3550 WEST DALLASone grant, 2018 · $80k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $75k
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 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.
To promote wellness, enriching the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
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…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
ConnectAbility's mission is to empower those with life altering disabilities and their caregivers to reach their fullest potential.
The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…
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.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
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…
To provide cutting-edge cardiac care to diagnose, treat, and prevent cardiovascular diseases.
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…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Children's Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Covenant House Texas. 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 42 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% 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 19% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 84 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 The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BRIARWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PURSUIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HUB HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds TIRR Foundation ↗
- Who funds Houston Area Parkinson Society ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE MENNINGER CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Pathways for Little Feet ↗
- Who funds Small Steps Nurturing Center ↗
- Who funds The W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation ↗
- Who funds Bo's Place ↗
- Who funds Texas Heart Institute ↗
- Who funds Camp Allen Camp & Conference Center ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds ARCHWAY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Houston Area Women's Center ↗
- Who funds Holly Hall ↗
- Who funds Open Door Mission ↗
- Who funds Joy Development School ↗
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 · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · Sterling-Turner Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Brown Foundation 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 Ellwood 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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