· Private foundation
The Gelb Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cooper Union | $50,000 |
| Houston Grand Opera | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America | $30,000 |
| Holocaust Museum Houston | $10,000 |
| Compu-Dopt | $10,000 |
| St Luke's Foundation | $10,000 |
| The Menil Collection | $5,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $5,000 |
| Museum of Fine Arts Houston | $5,000 |
| Yivo Institute | $5,000 |
| Houston Food Bank | $5,000 |
| Rice University | $5,000 |
| Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center | $3,000 |
| Johnny Mac Tennis Project Inc | $2,750 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HGHouston Grand Opera Association Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $389k · revenue +28%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $111k · revenue +12%- UOUniversity of St Thomas6× · 2017–2022 · $61k · revenue +70%
Funded once
United Way of Greater Houstonone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +24%- AAAlzheimer's Associationone grant, 2020 · $1k
- EWEmery Weiner Schoolone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
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.
The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…
Mission: Connect communities with animals, inspiring action to save wildlife. Vision: Be a leader in the global movement to save wildlife. (Continued on Schedule O) Houston Zoo, Inc. (HZI) strives to be a zoo that practices exemplary…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
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…
The mission of the Houston Academy of Medicine is to support the community service, education, scientific, and charitable programs for physicians, their patients, and the community at large in Harris County.
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,…
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…
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…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 43 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds COMP-U-DOPT INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Menil Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds COLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY RESCUE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds The Awty International School ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE LADIES VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY OF EAST HAMPTON ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Nativity Academy ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds The Blue Bird Circle ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gelb Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gelb Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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