· Private foundation
The Houser Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $568k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE HOUSER FOUNDATION INC. | $500,000 |
| BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES | $250,000 |
| CHRISTIAN HERALD ASSOCIATION | $250,000 |
| UNION RESCUE MISSION | $200,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE OSA | $100,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CARE MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHRIST | $68,297 |
| MANU PROJECT | $50,000 |
| WILD FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ADIRONDACK MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $25,050 |
| BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION | $25,000 |
| COFAN SURVIVAL FUND | $25,000 |
| RAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC. | $25,000 |
| WINDWARD SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| GREENWOOD HISTORIC FUND, INC. | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 4%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +73% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 4 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $625k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHChristian Herald Association Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $1.1M · revenue +60%
- RARAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $322k · revenue +157%
- BBBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION2× · 2018–2020 · $200k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- BMBOWERY MISSIONone grant, 2023 · $250k
- SMST MUNGO'S COMMUNITY HOUSINGone grant, 2019 · $134k
- RARainforest Action Networkone grant, 2018 · $100k · 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.
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
Wmf is the leading independent organization devoted to safeguarding the world's most treasured places to enrich people's lives and build mutual understanding across cultures and communities. the organization is headquartered in new york…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
Island press creates, publishes and promotes powerful ideas and solutions that help transform local, national, and global environmental practices and policies in order to better ecological and human well-being.
The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 82 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Christian Herald Association Inc ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds Rainforest Action Network ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Christ Church Inc ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Houser Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Houser Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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