· Private foundation
The Grant Family Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k44 grants · $120k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF THE ROCKIES | $20,000 |
| GALVESTON YOUTH LEADERSHIP AWARDS | $10,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| GISD FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| SIGMA CHI FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AGGIELAND HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| NORTH HOLLYWOOD HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| BRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| THE SAFE ALLIANCE | $4,000 |
| GRAND 1894 OPERA HOUSE | $3,500 |
| GALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF GAL-HOUSTON | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
106 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 64 since wound down; 3 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
YMCA OF THE ROCKIES7× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +80%- SCSigma Chi Foundation8× · 2018–2025 · $28k · revenue +59%
- FOFriends of Wonderland3× · 2017–2019 · $20k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- CBCOASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FDone grant, 2017 · $3k
- GIGIRLS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +44%
- WRWILDLIFE RESCUE AND REHABone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.
To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
How this is measured
79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 79 of the 138 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 YMCA OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds Sigma Chi Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Friends of Wonderland ↗
- Who funds STILLY-SNOHOMISH FISHERIES ENHANCEMENT TASK FORCE DBA SOUND SALMON SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF REED INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE CARE TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY RIDGE MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGETOWN PALACE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION NW ↗
- Who funds ALCOHOLDRUG ABUSE WOMENS CENTER ↗
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: Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund Inc · Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galveston · Dr Leon Bromberg Charitable Trust · Shell USA Company Foundation · Permanent Endowment Fund of Moody Methodist Church · The Mary Moody Northen Endowment · The Moody Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Rider Family Fund · United Way of Galveston Inc White · John P McGovern Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Grant Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Grant Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Interchurch Medical Assistance Inc: 76% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
- Neads Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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