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The H Scott Caven III Memorial Foundation Inc at a glance

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The H Scott Caven III Memorial Foundation Inc

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.

$95k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$171kHuman Services$118kEducation$114kAnimals$100kHousing & Shelter$95kHealth$52kCrime & Legal$29kYouth Development$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $80k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE ROAD CENTER INC$15,000
HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO A$15,000
NEW HOPE HOUSING INC$10,000
CASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INCORPORATED$10,000
MEMORIAL HERMANN FOUNDATION$10,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$10,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$10,000
CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL OF HOUSTON INC$5,000
ST JOHNS SCHOOL$5,000
HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOUSTONS AMAZING PLACE INC: $3k → 16%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 10%HOPE ROAD CENTER INC: $15k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$672k · 15 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
3

Total granted

$672k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+70%

Still filing today

87%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • NH
    New Hope Housing Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +190%
  • TW
    THE WILDLIFE CENTER OF TEXAS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +8%
  • HH
    HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • HA
    Houston's Amazing Place Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +46%
  • DM
    Dec My Room Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +70%
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.

1
Trees for Houston

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

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2
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
3
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
4
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
5
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
6
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
7
Cook Children's Medical Center

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
8
Fostering Family

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.

Community Improvement
9
Harris County Medical Society

Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…

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10
Cook Children's Physician Network

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
11
Mhs Physicians of Texas

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
12
Casa of Williamson County Texas

CASA of Williamson County, TX exists to empower community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect to find loving, safe, and permanent homes.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Texas Gulf Coast & Louisiana Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hope Road Center 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

17 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. 17 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $172,650 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINTHE WILDLIFE CENTER OF TEXAS INC: $85,000 · OtherTHE WILDLIFE CENTER OF TEXAS INCSt John's School: $54,250 · OtherSt John's SchoolCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC: $45,000 · OtherCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INCCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL OF HOUSTON INC: $42,500 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL OF HOUSTON INCCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY: $17,500 · Other+3 more: $17,500 · OtherNew Hope Housing Inc: $95,000 · Housing & ShelterNew Hope Housin…HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $57,500 · Human ServicesHELPING HAND…HOPE ROAD CENTER INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesHOPE ROAD CE…Houston's Amazing Place Inc: $3,000 · Human ServicesMemorial Hermann Foundation: $27,500 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST & LOUISIANA INC: $11,500 · HealthGULF COAST REGIONAL BLOOD CENTER: $7,500 · HealthHOUSTON REVISION: $20,000 · Crime & LegalTHE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN: $11,500 · Crime & LegalHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $15,000 · AnimalsTeach for America Inc: $15,000 · Education
Other$434,400Housing & Shelter$95,000Human Services$75,500Health$46,500Crime & Legal$31,500Animals$15,000Education$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew Hope Housing Inc: $95,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WILDLIFE CENTER OF TEXAS INC: $85,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $57,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSt John's School: $54,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMemorial Hermann Foundation: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON REVISION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY: $17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE ROAD CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST & LOUISIANA INC: $11,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGLENWOOD CEMETERY HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGULF COAST REGIONAL BLOOD CENTER: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHouston's Amazing Place Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDec My Room Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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 Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…The Brown Foundation …Albert & Ethel Herzst…The West EndowmentVivian L Smith Founda…Harry S & Isabel C Ca…Morgan Stanley Global…Jack H & William M Li…The Junior League of …MD Anderson FoundationThe William Stamps Fa…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX23.7× affinity10 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 · The Brown Foundation Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The West Endowment · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust · The Junior League of Houston Inc · MD Anderson Foundation · The William Stamps Farish 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 H Scott Caven III Memorial Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The H Scott Caven III Memorial Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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