· Private foundation
The Hg Ash Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $157k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOBBY CENTER FOUNDATION | $56,000 |
| 12TH MAN FOUNDATION | $46,360 |
| MEMORIAL DRIVE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $35,000 |
| ROTARY FOUNDATION OF HOUSTON | $17,000 |
| TURN IT GOLD | $15,000 |
| ASTROS GOLF FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| SPARTAN BOOSTER CLUB | $10,750 |
| MEMORIAL HERMANN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| STONEY CREEK FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| CANCARE | $7,500 |
| TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $6,000 |
| MAKE A WISH | $5,000 |
| GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| HOUSTON TRI DELTA PHILANTHROPIES INC | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +59% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 7 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- TATexas A&M Foundation2× · 2018–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +49%
- TATexas A&M University 12th Man Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $360k · revenue +55%
- THThe Hobby Center Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $269k · revenue +247%
Funded once
- BABOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +10%
- ATALLEY THEATREgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +53%
- PPPARENT PROJECT MUSCULAR DYSTROPHYone grant, 2017 · $8k
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.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
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 create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
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 recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
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.
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.
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…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Develop, promote, and present programs of continuing education and professional development interest to cpas in the houston area. the foundation also has fundraising programs for endowments and chartiable causes
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Hermann Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Freedom in Jesus Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 97 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
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 Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M University 12th Man Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Hobby Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds Memorial Hermann Foundation ↗
- Who funds STONEY CREEK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON TENNIS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TURN IT GOLD ↗
- Who funds CANCARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds SPARTAN BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds Houston Parks Board ↗
- Who funds 232-HELP INC ↗
- Who funds BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASTROS GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE ALS ASSOCIATION-TEXAS CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds THE BRIARWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SPRING BRANCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHANCE FOR HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON TRIDELTA PHILANTHROPIES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds CAMP OZARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Freedom in Jesus Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds CASA Child Advocates of Montgomery County Inc ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · L E Foundation Trust · Midway Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Baker Hughes Foundation · The Zions Bancorporation Foundation · The Looper Foundation · Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust
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 Hg Ash 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.