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The Holthouse Foundation for Kids

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$420k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$2.4MYouth Development$1.1MArts & Culture$744kHealth$700kScience & Tech$555kPhilanthropy$261kHuman Services$236kRecreation & Sports$228kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $185k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $415k
  • $250k+1 grant · $420k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KINKAID SCHOOL$420,000
P4L$100,000
Texas Christian University$100,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$100,000
HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE$65,000
CRIME STOPPERS OF HOUSTON INC$50,000
SPRINGSPIRIT$35,000
HOUSTON METHODIST FOUNDATION$30,000
ASTROS FOUNDATION$25,000
HealthCorps$25,000
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF HOUSTON$25,000
HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW & RODEO$15,000
Fort Bend County Fair Assoc of FBCFA$10,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Wayne County$10,000
HOLY ROSARY CATHOLIC CHURCH$10,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $168k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER: $10k → 14%Humorology Inc: $500 → 10%Third Option Foundation: $27k → 6%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%WEINGART EAST LOS ANGELES YMCA: $3k → 14%CHANGE HAPPENS: $10k → 16%CHANGE HAPPENS: $5k → 16%CHANGE HAPPENS: $5k → 16%Memorial Villages Police Foundation: $500 → 16%CLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER: $3k → 16%Houston Police Foundation: $5k → 16%HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%MAKING IT BETTER: $10k → 16%HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%The Furniture Bank: $5k → 16%DePelchin Children's Center: $10k → 16%FAMILY HOUSTON: $5k → 16%LOVING HOUSTON: $15k → 16%LOVING HOUSTON: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
CA
UT
CO
VA
DC
LA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.4M · 60 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

60 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
88

Total granted

$6.4M
$974k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+18%

Still filing today

67%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TK
    The Kinkaid School Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $838k · revenue +85%
  • PU
    PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $700k · revenue +35%
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $415k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • IP
    IDEA Public Schoolsgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $132k · revenue +78%
  • HC
    HEALTH CORPS
    one grant, 2018 · $70k
  • NM
    NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -16%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Trees for Houston

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

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2
Houston Independent School District Foundation

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…

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3
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

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.

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4
Breakthrough Houston

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.

Education
5
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
6
St John's School

See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…

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7
American Leadership Forum Houston Gulf Coast Chapter

American Leadership Forum (ALF) brings together, in classes, leaders with diverse perspectives so they can build relationships, learn to dialogue and respectfully differ, and work together for the good of our community.

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8
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
9
The Heritage Society

The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…

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10
John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science

The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…

Arts & Culture
11
Good Reason Houston Inc

Good Reason Houston strives to grow and sustain great schools while advocating for families and communities.

Education
12
The Fay School

See Schedule O. The Fay School ("the School") is a nonsectarian, not-for-profit, co-educational school in which children of diverse talents and backgrounds with strong academic abilities are offered a high-quality education in a secure,…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Astros Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Independent K-12 SchoolsCommunity FoundationsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Military Veterans SupportYouth Development CentersChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Community Arts CentersCommunity College Foundatio…Animal Rescue and ShelterCancer Support ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Health Access Advocacy and …Jewish Community Organizati…Youth Sports Programs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%1%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr10%28%35–55yr13%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%1%<5yr16%2%5–10yr20%41%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr10%32%35–55yr13%14%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/112
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,692

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.

04the grantee network

109 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. 109 of the 165 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
107/109
Grantees still filing
79/109
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Kinkaid School Inc — $838,040 · EducationThe Kinkaid School IncPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $700,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONTRANSMIT RECEIVE LABS INC — $400,000 · EducationTRANSMIT RECEIVE LABS INCIndiana State University Foundation Inc — $150,000 · EducationIndiana State University Foundation …IDEA Public Schools — $132,099 · EducationIDEA Public SchoolsTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · Education+12 more — $147,650 · Education+12 moreP4L — $845,556 · OtherP4LHOLTHOUSE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB — $245,000 · OtherHOLTHOUSE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBRIVER OAKS BAPTIST SCHOOL — $229,850 · OtherRIVER OAKS BAPTIST SCHOOLCrime Stoppers of Houston Inc — $115,000 · Other+94 more — $1,376,008 · Other+94 moreCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $415,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S M…Houston Museum of Natural Science — $155,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Muse…Menil Foundation Inc — $122,750 · Arts & CultureMenil Founda…NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MED…FOREST HILLS HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureFOREST HILLS…THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON — $35,750 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $55,445 · Arts & Culture+9 moreHEALTHCORPS INC — $376,841 · HealthHEALTHCORPS …THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $355,000 · HealthTHE METHODIS…Texas Children's Hospital — $50,000 · HealthTexas Childr…Memorial Hermann Foundation — $42,300 · Health+6 more — $40,250 · HealthASTROS FOUNDATION — $79,500 · PhilanthropyASTROS GOLF FOUNDATION — $75,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FAULK FOUNDATION — $35,000 · PhilanthropyTHE HAWN FOUNDATION — $30,000 · PhilanthropyHouston Jewish Community Foundation — $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $20,000 · PhilanthropyBARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · PhilanthropySouth Texas Charity Weekend Inc — $13,000 · Philanthropy+5 more — $10,500 · PhilanthropyBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc — $115,000 · Youth DevelopmentNATIONAL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirl Scouts of San Jacinto Council — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE — $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentAfrican American Youth Harvest Foundation — $10,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentSpringSpirit Inc — $120,617 · Recreation & SportsHOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC — $38,400 · Recreation & SportsGIRLSTART — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsEmancipation Park Conservancy — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$2,467,789Other$2,811,414Arts & Culture$883,945Health$864,391Philanthropy$303,000Youth Development$218,000Recreation & Sports$180,017

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Kinkaid School Inc — $838,040 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $700,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $415,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetTRANSMIT RECEIVE LABS INC — $400,000 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetHEALTHCORPS INC — $376,841 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $355,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science — $155,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIndiana State University Foundation Inc — $150,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetIDEA Public Schools — $132,099 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMenil Foundation Inc — $122,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSpringSpirit Inc — $120,617 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCrime Stoppers of Houston Inc — $115,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc — $115,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASTROS FOUNDATION — $79,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetASTROS GOLF FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Federation of Greater Houston — $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION — $52,393 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOREST HILLS HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WAYNE COUNTY — $45,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetRecipe for Success Foundation — $45,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetMemorial Hermann Foundation — $42,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPost Oak Baseball Foundation — $41,650 over 3y, 20% of budgetHOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC — $38,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON — $35,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FAULK FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetTHE HAWN FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHermann Park Conservancy — $28,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Jewish Community Foundation — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOVING HOUSTON INC — $25,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetTexas Business Hall of Fame Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $22,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Botanic Garden — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCivic Heart Community Services — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of San Jacinto Council — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTexans for Lawsuit Reform — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Houston Commu…Strake FoundationThe Brown Foundation …Albert & Ethel Herzst…Mechia FoundationShell USA Company Fou…Houston Endowment IncThe Elkins FoundationThe Powell FoundationVivian L Smith Founda…Sterling-Turner Found…The Methodist Hospital
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX61.9× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Mechia Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Elkins Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Sterling-Turner Foundation · The Methodist Hospital

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 Holthouse Foundation for Kids 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
29report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 165 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines