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The Jbd Foundation

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.

$229k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$578kEducation$255kHuman Services$188kHealth$131kReligion$91kEnvironment$57kFood & Nutrition$34kRecreation & Sports$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $150k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST FRANCIS EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL$33,250
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS-HOUSTON - GLASSELL SCHOOL$25,000
HOUSTON CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY$20,500
YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON$20,000
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS-HOUSTON$20,000
THE ORANGE SHOW CENTER FOR VISIONARY ARTS$11,000
HOPE AND HEALING CENTER & INSTITUTE$10,000
BAKER RIPLEY$10,000
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$9,000
Individual grant recipient$7,000
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS - HOUSTON$6,750
RICE UNIVERSITY SHEPHERD SCHOOL OF MUSIC$5,000
ST FRANCIS EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL$5,000
ST FRANCIS EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL$5,000
ST FRANCIS EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%DEPELCHIN CHILDRENS CENTER: $5k → 9%INSPIRATION RANCH: $1k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON: $5k → 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 31 repeat orgs$119k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
31

Total granted

$1.3M
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+19%

Still filing today

68%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON
    7× · 2017–2024 · $252k · revenue +96%
  • B
    BakerRipley
    5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +16%
  • HA
    Hope and Healing Center & Institute
    5× · 2020–2024 · $54k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • PP
    Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -39%
  • V(
    VICTORY (AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY)
    one grant, 2020 · $7k
  • RS
    RISE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $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
Trees for Houston

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

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2
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
3
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
4
Houston Arboretum & Nature Center

The mission of the Houston Arboretum & Nature Center is to provide education about the natural environment to people of all ages and to protect and enhance the Arboretum as a haven and sanctuary for native plants and animals.

Environment
5
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
6
Houston Freedmen's Town Conservancy Inc

To completely restore Houston Freedmen's Town as a heritage district that provides America with its only Freedmen's Town.

Community Improvement
7
Harris County Medical Society

Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…

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8
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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9
Collaborative for Children

The mission of Collaborative for Children is to meaningfully improve the quality of early childhood education and care for Greater Houston's children through those most influential in their lives.

Human Services
10
Houston Arts Alliance

See Schedule OHouston Arts Alliance (HAA) is a local arts and culture organization whose principal work is implementing the City of Houston's vision, values, and goals for its arts grantmaking and civic art investments. HAA conducts work…

Arts & Culture
11
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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12
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Bamberger Ranch Preserve. 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

50 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. 50 of the 76 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
30/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST FRANCIS EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL: $174,450 · OtherST FRANCIS EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOLST FRANCIS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $75,000 · OtherST FRANCIS EPISCOPAL CHURCHRICE UNIVERSITY SHEPHERD SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $55,000 · OtherRICE UNIVERSITY SHEPHERD SCHOOL OF MUSICMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS-HOUSTON - GLASSELL SCHOOL: $29,000 · OtherMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $23,500 · OtherThe Houston Food Bank: $21,250 · OtherMIDTOWN ARTS AND THEATER CENTER: $20,000 · Other+33 more: $158,420 · Other+33 moreTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $251,510 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTONHouston Center for Photography Inc: $92,150 · Arts & CultureHouston Center for Photography In…The Orange Show Foundation: $34,500 · Arts & CultureThe Orange Show Foundation+7 more: $29,400 · Arts & Culture+7 moreYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $94,500 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Ch…BakerRipley: $80,000 · Human ServicesBakerRipley+4 more: $7,000 · Human ServicesHouston Botanic Garden: $49,400 · EnvironmentMemorial Park Conservancy Inc: $25,000 · EnvironmentPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $5,000 · Environment+2 more: $1,500 · EnvironmentAgape Development Ministries: $15,000 · EducationBOOKS BETWEEN KIDS INC: $12,500 · EducationJoy Development School: $10,715 · EducationSmall Steps Nurturing Center: $5,000 · EducationASPEN HIGHER LEARNING FLIGHT ACADEMY INC: $5,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5,000 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice University: $3,700 · EducationSouthern Methodist University: $3,500 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationTexas Cultural Trust Council: $40,600 · PhilanthropyBamberger Ranch Preserve: $5,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyHouston Parks Board: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyHope and Healing Center & Institute: $54,300 · Religion
Other$556,620Arts & Culture$407,560Human Services$181,500Environment$80,900Education$61,415Philanthropy$56,600Religion$54,300

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 MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $251,510 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $94,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Center for Photography Inc: $92,150 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetBakerRipley: $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHope and Healing Center & Institute: $54,300 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHouston Botanic Garden: $49,400 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTexas Cultural Trust Council: $40,600 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetThe Orange Show Foundation: $34,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMemorial Park Conservancy Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $21,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAgape Development Ministries: $15,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEAST SPRING BRANCH FOOD PANTRY: $13,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBOOKS BETWEEN KIDS INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINPRINT INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetJoy Development School: $10,715 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Area Parkinson Society: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S FUND INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSmall Steps Nurturing Center: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBamberger Ranch Preserve: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGulf Coast - A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE MENNINGER CLINIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN HIGHER LEARNING FLIGHT ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Parks Board: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $3,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Houston's Future Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAY Center Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSPIRATION RANCH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Council on Recovery: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVITA LIVING INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES EMPOWERED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPeckerwood Gardens Conservation Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLone Star Flight Museum: $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOTANICA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Area Women's Center: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Door Mission: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WATERLOO PUBLIC LIBR: $500 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

  • Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area ↗
  • Who funds Houston Center for Photography Inc ↗
  • Who funds BakerRipley ↗
  • Who funds Hope and Healing Center & Institute ↗
  • Who funds Houston Botanic Garden ↗
  • Who funds Texas Cultural Trust Council ↗
  • Who funds The Orange Show Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds Agape Development Ministries ↗
  • Who funds EAST SPRING BRANCH FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds BOOKS BETWEEN KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds INPRINT INC ↗
  • Who funds Joy Development School ↗
  • Who funds Houston Area Parkinson Society ↗
  • Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Small Steps Nurturing Center ↗
  • Who funds Bamberger Ranch Preserve ↗
  • Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Gulf Coast - A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts ↗
  • Who funds THE MENNINGER CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds POZOS ART PROJECT INC ↗

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…The Brown Foundation …Shell USA Company Fou…The Duncan Genesis Fo…Strake FoundationHouston Endowment IncVivian L Smith Founda…The Elkins FoundationMechia FoundationThe Stanford & Joan A…MD Anderson FoundationAlbert & Ethel Herzst…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX45.1× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Duncan Genesis Foundation · Strake Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Mechia Foundation · The Stanford & Joan Alexander Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 Jbd Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Jbd 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 76 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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