How much does The Fant Foundation give?

The Fant Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $102,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does The Fant Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (27%), Community Improvement (26%), Human Services (18%).

Who are The Fant Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Houston's Charity for Children Inc ($926k), United Way of Greater Houston ($912k), The Other Ones Foundation ($325k).

Does The Fant Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Fant Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Fant Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation.

Where is The Fant Foundation based?

The Fant Foundation is based in TX.

The Fant Foundation

The Fant Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Fant Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$102k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$37k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$987kCommunity Improvement$926kHuman Services$669kHousing & Shelter$425kHealth$282kEducation$69kAnimals$45kPublic Benefit$35kOther$0

02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $10k
$10k–50k6 grants · $92k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WHOLE HEALTH CENTER HOUSTON BENEFITTING VARIOUS PATIENTS	$37,000
Individual grant recipient	$15,000
Individual grant recipient	$10,000
Individual grant recipient	$10,000
HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO	$10,000
HOUSTON PET SET	$10,000
INSPIRED HOPE FOUNDATION	$5,000
JC7 FOUNDATION	$5,000

02The need

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 (FY20–23, $355k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.6M · 10 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.6M

$968k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%

+1%

Still filing today

70%

46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementAnimalsHousing & 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

HC
HOUSTON'S CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC
4× · 2020–2023 · $926k · revenue +88%
United Way of Greater Houston
4× · 2020–2023 · $912k · revenue +10%
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THE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION
3× · 2021–2023 · $325k · revenue +302%

Funded once

LS
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE UPBRING
one grant, 2020 · $250k
LS
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE UPBRING KRAUSE CHILDREN'S CENTER
one grant, 2021 · $140k
S
SBP
one grant, 2021 · $100k

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.

Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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Texas Children's Hospital Foundation

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.

Health

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

Rebuilding Together Houston

Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…

Housing & Shelter

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

Memorial Hermann Medical Group

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,…

Health

Texas Children's

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.

Health

Breakthrough Houston

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.

Education

Mhs Physicians of Texas

Health

Harris County Hospital District Foundation

The mission of the Harris County Hospital District Foundation is to enhance the broad healthcare mission of the Harris Health System by soliciting and raising funds for programs and increasing the community's awareness of the Harris Health…

Health

The Women's Resource of Greater Houston

See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…

Philanthropy

Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

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.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Hermann Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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

20 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. 20 of the 41 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

20/20

Grantees still filing

11/20

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,212,665Philanthropy$942,000Community Improvement$926,000Human Services$355,000Housing & Shelter$100,000Animals$45,000Health$43,500

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

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.

Greater Houston Community FoundationTX17.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Fant Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fant Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

3report 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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Fant Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Fant Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home