· Private foundation
The George 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 163 grants below total $15,688,047 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $18,606,592 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,918,545 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k81 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k50 grants · $4.4M
- $250k+14 grants · $9.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OakBend Medical Center | $1,555,000 |
| The TSTC Foundation | $1,396,356 |
| Fort Bend County Women's Center | $1,210,000 |
| Fort Bend Family Health Center (aka AccessHealth) | $929,500 |
| The University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center | $785,000 |
| Historic George Ranch Association | $660,000 |
| Fort Bend County Women's Center | $500,000 |
| YMCA of the Greater Houston Area | $500,000 |
| Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston | $374,000 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston, Inc. | $300,000 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston, Inc. | $300,000 |
| Lamar Consolidated Independent School District | $275,000 |
| Texana Center | $260,000 |
| Fort Bend History Association | $250,000 |
| YMCA of the Greater Houston Area | $230,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 50% of The George Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 94% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
105 repeat relationships — 83 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 18 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $670k 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
THE TSTC FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $9.0M · revenue +79% · 50% of their budget- FBFORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER INC SOS/SHELTER-OUTREACH-SOLUTIONS5× · 2020–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +0%
- BABoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +20%
Funded once
- SASCHOLARSHIP AMERICAone grant, 2020 · $1.1M
- FBFORT BEND FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $750k · revenue +7%
- TATHE ARC OF FORT BEND COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $525k · revenue -60%
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 Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.
Fostering family dba the riverside project is a 501(c)(3) public charity that on behalf of houston's children and their families, brings together organizations and passionate people working as one to help families heal and children thrive.
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.
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.
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
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.
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…
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
To promote wellness, enriching the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Loving Houston Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reining Strength Therapeutic Horsemanship. 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 26 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
140 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. 140 of the 207 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 TSTC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER INC SOS/SHELTER-OUTREACH-SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds FORT BEND HISTORY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds EDISON ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area ↗
- Who funds Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds FORT BEND FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds Blessed Be Hope for Three Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND MILE MISSION CENTER ↗
- Who funds FORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC GEORGE RANCH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FORT BEND FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Memorial Hermann Foundation ↗
- Who funds PARKS YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds EAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC FORT BEND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF FORT BEND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Hope Fort Bend Clubhouse ↗
- Who funds Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More ↗
- Who funds KIPP Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds ROSENBERG RICHMOND HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF FORT BEND ↗
- Who funds DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROSENBERG RAILROAD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ATTACK POVERTY ↗
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: The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation · Fort Bend Junior Service League · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Houston Endowment Inc · United Way of Greater Houston · Shell USA Company Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Madison Charitable 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 George 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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