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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 FY2024(still arriving)
29
Grants FY2024
39
Organizations funded FY2023
28%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$420,000
Organizations funded a year
35 to 45
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$12M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 28% of the organizations The Holthouse Foundation for Kids funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving28$1.1M36%
FY202339$1.0M28%
FY202235$955k46%
FY202135$851k49%
FY202039$874k44%
FY201945$904k56%
FY201842$921k50%
FY201741$960kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 105 grantees
All grantees of The Holthouse Foundation for Kids by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Kinkaid School Inc$838,04041%
Prager University Foundation$700,00040%
Children's Museum Inc$415,00081%
Transmit Receive Labs Inc$400,00076%
Healthcorps Inc$376,84155%
The Methodist Hospital Foundation$355,00080%
Houston Museum of Natural Science$155,00040%
Indiana State University Foundation Inc$150,00060%
IDEA Public Schools$132,09910%
Menil Foundation Inc$122,75070%
SpringSpirit Inc$120,61761%
Crime Stoppers of Houston Inc$115,00041%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc$115,00040%
Texas Christian University$100,00010%
Astros Foundation$79,50030%
Astros Golf Foundation$75,00020%
Third Option Foundation$52,39320%
National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation$50,00010%
Texas Children's Hospital$50,00020%
Forest Hills Historical Foundation Inc$50,000121%
Recipe for Success Foundation$45,00032%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Wayne County$45,00041%
Memorial Hermann Foundation$42,30020%
Post Oak Baseball Foundation$41,650320%
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Inc$38,40030%
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston$35,75020%
The Faulk Foundation$35,000514%
Yellowstone Academy Inc Dba Yellowstone Schools$35,00020%
Episcopal High School$30,0002n/a
The Hawn Foundation$30,00022%
Hermann Park Conservancy$28,00020%
Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation$25,00012%
America First Policy Institute Inc$25,00010%
Loving Houston Inc$25,00026%
The Houston Food Bank$25,00010%
Houston Police Foundation$25,00041%
Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc$22,00010%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$20,00030%
Civic Heart Community Services$20,00030%
The Philanthropy Roundtable$20,00040%
Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council$20,00020%
William Marsh Rice University$20,00040%
Houston Botanic Garden$20,00020%
Texans for Lawsuit Reform$20,00020%
Young Life$18,00020%
Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation$15,00010%
Easter Seals of Greater Houston Inc$15,00010%
Escape Family Resource Center of the Exchange Clubs of Houston$15,0001n/a
Holocaust Museum Houston$15,00020%
March of Dimes Inc$14,75010%
Children's Assessment Center Foundation$13,00010%
South Texas Charity Weekend Inc$13,00011%
Clayton Dabney for Kids With Cancer$12,50020%
Memorial Drive Esplanade Association$11,5003n/a
Emancipation Park Conservancy$10,00015%
Depelchin Children's Center$10,00010%
Making It Better dba Literacy Now$10,00011%
African American Youth Harvest Foundation$10,00011%
Casa de Esperanza de Los Ninos Inc$10,00010%
Jazz at Aspen-Snowmass$10,00010%
Thrive School Network$10,00012%
Libertas Network$10,00010%
Girlstart$10,00010%
Asia Society Texas Center$10,00010%
Small Steps Nurturing Center$10,00020%
St Luke's United Methodist Church$10,0001n/a
Hope Stone Inc$7,50012%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$6,00020%
Border Patrol Foundation$5,00011%
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston$5,00010%
Kick Drugs Out of America Foundation$5,00010%
Houston Grand Opera Association Inc$5,00010%
Florida Prosperity Partnership Inc$5,00011%
The Furniture Bank$5,00010%
Children At Risk$5,00010%
Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County$5,00010%
Wonderland Educational Estate Dba Beatrice Mayes Institute$5,00010%
Families Empowered$3,00010%
Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles$2,50010%
100 Black Men of Metropolitan Houston$2,50011%
Houston Area Parkinson Society$2,50010%
Best Buddies International Inc$2,50010%
Houston Area Community Services$2,50010%
Lambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation$2,50010%
Huntington's Disease Society of America Inc$2,50010%
The 100 Club Inc$2,00010%
Legacy Community Health Services Inc$1,50010%
Houston Pi Beta Phi Foundation$1,50011%
New Hope of Indiana Inc$1,00010%
Trinity Oaks Enterprises$1,00010%
Grose Family Foundation$1,00011%
WU Area Football Club Inc$1,00010%
Summit54$1,00010%
The National World War II Museum Inc$1,00010%
Mission of Yahweh Inc$1,0001n/a
Italian Cultural & Community Center of Houston$1,00010%
The Heritage Foundation$1,00010%
Family Legacy Missions International$1,00010%
Theatre Aspen$94510%
University of Houston Foundation$65010%
Dolphins Cycling Challenge Inc$50010%
Golden Beginnings Golden Retriever Rescue Inc$50010%
Humorology Inc$50010%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$50010%
Memorial Villages Police Foundation$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Holthouse Foundation for Kids supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetThird Option Foundation: $52,393 over 2y, 0.3% 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 budgetRecipe for Success Foundation: $45,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Wayne County: $45,000 over 4y, 0.7% 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 budgetThe Faulk Foundation: $35,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetYellowstone Academy Inc Dba Yellowstone Schools: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Hawn Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHermann Park Conservancy: $28,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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 budgetLoving Houston Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Police Foundation: $25,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBroadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc: $22,000 over 1y, 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 budgetThe Philanthropy Roundtable: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGirl Scouts of San Jacinto Council: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Botanic Garden: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTexans for Lawsuit Reform: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYoung Life: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBarbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEaster Seals of Greater Houston Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHolocaust Museum Houston: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $14,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 99.

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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 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

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.

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About The Holthouse Foundation for Kids

How much does The Holthouse Foundation for Kids give?
The Holthouse Foundation for Kids reported 29 grants totaling $1,057,455 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 45 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Holthouse Foundation for Kids fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (31%), Youth Development (14%), Arts & Culture (10%).
Who are The Holthouse Foundation for Kids's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Kinkaid School Inc ($838k), Prager University Foundation ($700k), Children's Museum Inc ($415k).
Does The Holthouse Foundation for Kids fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Holthouse Foundation for Kids accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Holthouse Foundation for Kids?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Strake Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc.
Where is The Holthouse Foundation for Kids based?
The Holthouse Foundation for Kids is based in TX.

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 165 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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