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The Holthouse Foundation for Kids at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% 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
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$100,000
P4L$100,000
Texas Christian University$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
HOLY ROSARY CATHOLIC CHURCH$10,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Wayne County$10,000
Fort Bend County Fair Assoc of FBCFA$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

+44%
+28%

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
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

  • 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%
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
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

109 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. 109 of the 165 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
107/109
Grantees still filing
80/109
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 & SportsEmancipation Park Conservancy: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsGIRLSTART: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetJewish Federation of Greater Houston: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% 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 budgetNATIONAL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 budgetHouston Jewish Community Foundation: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% 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 budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $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 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…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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
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.

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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home