· Private foundation
The Kayser Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $111k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S FUND INC | $20,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $17,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON - LAW FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AGAPE DEVELOPMENT | $10,000 |
| REFUEL CARES FOUNDATION LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY (LLS) 1ST ANNUAL REFUE | $10,000 |
| PERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON | $10,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $10,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $8,000 |
| THE MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| HOUSTON ARBORETUM & NATURE CENTER | $7,500 |
| HOUSTON TEXANS FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
| ARMS SEEDS OF HOPE | $6,000 |
| MISSION CENTERS OF HOUSTON | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 16% of The Kayser Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 72%.
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 +48% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.
40 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 17 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFASTROS FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2022 · $58k · revenue +405%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S FUND INC6× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +93%
- PAPERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON5× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- UMUT MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERone grant, 2018 · $30k
- TPTrinity Park Conservancygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +405%
- GHGreater Houston Partnership Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue +268%
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.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
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.
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater 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.
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…
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…
The Houston Bar Foundation supports programs that help provide legal representation to the indigent, promote community understanding of our legal system, and foster the administration of justice.
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,…
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.
Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…
Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
How this is measured
72 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. 72 of the 144 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 ASTROS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Memorial Hermann Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE WILL ERWIN HEADACHE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds Trinity Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CENIKOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Houston Partnership Foundation ↗
- Who funds Houston Arboretum & Nature Center ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON TRIDELTA PHILANTHROPIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHANCE FOR HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Agape Development Ministries ↗
- Who funds University of Houston Law Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds The University of Texas Law School Foundation ↗
- Who funds PEGASUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON 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.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Strake Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Brown Foundation Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Hobby Family Foundation · Mechia Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kayser Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kayser Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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