· Private foundation
The Hollyfield 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Houston - Special Collection | $20,000 |
| Trans Legal Aid Clinic of Houston | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| POZ Impact | $4,000 |
| LOAFers Inc | $4,000 |
| TRUTH Project | $3,750 |
| The Normal Anomaly Initiative | $3,750 |
| Lazarus House | $3,000 |
| Avenue 360 | $2,500 |
| Asia Society Texas | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
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 +91% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 9 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, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- OFOUT FOR EDUCATION6× · 2018–2023 · $38k · revenue +91%
- AFAIDS FOUNDATION HOUSTON INC4× · 2019–2022 · $17k · revenue +130%
- DIDIVERSEWORKS INC3× · 2019–2023 · $15k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- LLLambda Legal Defense and Educationone grant, 2018 · $9k
- A3Avenue 360 (fka Houston Area Community Services)one grant, 2022 · $8k
- HRHouston Recovery Centerone grant, 2020 · $6k
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.
EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration.
Celebrate cultures of lgbtq+ people
Austin Rainbow Theatre provides affordable theatre that focuses on creating belonging, reducing stigma, honoring diverse LGBTQIA+ history and stories, and amplifying LGBTQIA+ artist and community voices.
Our mission is to ameliorate disparities faced by transgender, gender non-binary and intersex people as well as help reduce similar disparities among our lesbian, gay and bisexual communities.
Afro Pride fosters the mental and social wellness of the Afrocentric LGBTQ community and those who love and support them.
The North Texas GLBT Chamber of Commerce works to achieve equality through business.
The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…
Pride Center San Antonio champions well-being by providing inclusive, no-cost services and programs for people of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions. Through education, advocacy, and community building, we create…
To comprehensively serve as a resource for the well-being of gay men of color, inclusive but not limited to gay, bisexual & transgender & questioning communities through outreach, education & care.
The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
To foster public understanding of the contributions of the LGBTQIA+ community by supporting the creation, public presentation, and social engagement programming of interdisciplinary artwork that examines the rich diversity of queer…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Resource Center of Dallas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. 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 31 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 7% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 43 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 The Montrose Center ↗
- Who funds OUT FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds AIDS FOUNDATION HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ↗
- Who funds DIVERSEWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds EQTX Equality Texas Foundation ↗
- Who funds LGBTQ Victory Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTROSE GRACE PLACE ↗
- Who funds Contemporary Arts Museum Houston ↗
- Who funds AURORA PICTURE SHOW ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds FUNDACION LATINOAMERICANA DE ACCION SOCIAL INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DOCTORS FOR CHANGE ↗
- Who funds NORMAL ANOMALY INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds The TRUTH Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Organizacion Latina Trans in Texas ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAHOGANY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER ↗
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 · Bunnies on the Bayou Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · John Steven Kellett Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · AIDS United · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Houston Arts Alliance · Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc · Rockwell Fund 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 Hollyfield 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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