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The Hollyfield Foundation at a glance

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The Hollyfield Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$53k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$258kEducation$100kArts & Culture$63kCivil Rights$44kHousing & Shelter$25kCrime & Legal$21kHuman Services$16kPublic Benefit$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$4,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
The Normal Anomaly Initiative$3,750
TRUTH Project$3,750
Lazarus House$3,000
Avenue 360$2,500
Asia Society Texas$2,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Montrose Grace Place: $5k → 16%Organizacion Latina Trans in Texas: $3k → 16%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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$418k · 12 repeat orgs$138k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +91% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
22

Total granted

$418k
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+91%
+28%

Still filing today

58%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureCivil RightsHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • OF
    OUT FOR EDUCATION
    6× · 2018–2023 · $38k · revenue +91%
  • AF
    AIDS FOUNDATION HOUSTON INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $17k · revenue +130%
  • DI
    DIVERSEWORKS INC
    3× · 2019–2023 · $15k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • LL
    Lambda Legal Defense and Education
    one grant, 2018 · $9k
  • A3
    Avenue 360 (fka Houston Area Community Services)
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
  • HR
    Houston Recovery Center
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
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
Eqtx Equality Texas dba Equality Texas

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.

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2
Austin Pride Foundation
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3
The American Museum of Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender History & Culture

Celebrate cultures of lgbtq+ people

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4
Austin Rainbow Theatre

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Queer Works

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.

Health
6
Afro Pride Federation Inc

Afro Pride fosters the mental and social wellness of the Afrocentric LGBTQ community and those who love and support them.

Human Services
7
North Texas Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Chamber of Commerce Inc

The North Texas GLBT Chamber of Commerce works to achieve equality through business.

Community Improvement
8
Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

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.…

Civil Rights
9
Pride Center San Antonio

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…

Human Services
10
African American Office of Gay Concerns

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.

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11
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

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.

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12
Rendezvous Center for Art

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Resource Center of Dallas Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
13/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Houston: $82,000 · OtherUniversity of HoustonLazarus House: $27,500 · OtherLazarus HouseUniversity of Houston - Special Collection: $20,000 · OtherUniversity of Houston - Special CollectionLesbian Health Initiative: $18,000 · OtherLesbian Health InitiativeLambda Legal Defense and Education: $8,500 · OtherAvenue 360 (fka Houston Area Community Services): $7,500 · Other+15 more: $60,950 · Other+15 moreThe Montrose Center: $177,500 · HealthThe Montrose CenterAIDS FOUNDATION HOUSTON INC: $17,000 · HealthAIDS FOUNDATION HOUSTON INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $16,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD+4 more: $13,500 · Health+4 moreOUT FOR EDUCATION: $37,500 · EducationSOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON INC: $5,000 · EducationDIVERSEWORKS INC: $14,500 · Arts & CultureContemporary Arts Museum Houston: $5,000 · Arts & CultureAURORA PICTURE SHOW: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MAHOGANY PROJECT: $2,000 · Arts & CultureASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 · Civil RightsEQTX Equality Texas Foundation: $5,500 · Civil RightsLGBTQ Victory Institute Inc: $5,000 · Civil RightsNORMAL ANOMALY INITIATIVE INC: $3,750 · Civil RightsMONTROSE GRACE PLACE: $5,000 · Human ServicesThe TRUTH Project Inc: $3,750 · Human ServicesOrganizacion Latina Trans in Texas: $3,000 · Human ServicesBLACK TRANSWOMEN INC: $1,250 · Philanthropy
Other$224,450Health$224,000Education$42,500Arts & Culture$28,500Civil Rights$24,250Human Services$11,750Philanthropy$1,250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Montrose Center: $177,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOUT FOR EDUCATION: $37,500 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetAIDS FOUNDATION HOUSTON INC: $17,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDIVERSEWORKS INC: $14,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEQTX Equality Texas Foundation: $5,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetContemporary Arts Museum Houston: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFUNDACION LATINOAMERICANA DE ACCION SOCIAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLGBTQ Victory Institute Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOCTORS FOR CHANGE: $4,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetThe TRUTH Project Inc: $3,750 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNORMAL ANOMALY INITIATIVE INC: $3,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOrganizacion Latina Trans in Texas: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MAHOGANY PROJECT: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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…Bunnies on the Bayou …Shell USA Company Fou…Houston Endowment IncJohn Steven Kellett F…The Methodist HospitalAIDS UnitedThe Brown Foundation …The Dallas FoundationHouston Arts AllianceBroadway Caresequity …Rockwell Fund Inc
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX27.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Hollyfield Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hollyfield Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Hollyfield Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Hollyfield Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 43 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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