· Private foundation
The Lillian Kaiser Lewis Foundation Co Frost Bank
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of THE LILLIAN KAISER LEWIS FOUNDATION CO FROST BANK’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON | $50,000 |
| EVELYN RUBENSTEIN JEWISH COMMUNITY | $39,500 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $16,000 |
| SEARCH HOMELESS SERVICES | $10,000 |
| EMERGING GRACE MINISTRIES INC | $9,000 |
| AIDS FOUNDATION HOUSTON | $5,000 |
| WOMEN ON THE WAY UP | $4,000 |
| WOMEN'S RESOURCE OF GREATER HOUSTON | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE8× · 2017–2025 · $99k · revenue +15%
The Houston Food Bank8× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +107%- IMInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston3× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +160%
Funded once
- GSGILBERT SULLIVAN SOCIETY OF HOUSTONone grant, 2017 · $10k
- MLMICKEY LELAND KIBBUTZIM INTERNSHIPone grant, 2020 · $5k
- CACAREER AND RECOVERY SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.
Fostering family dba the riverside project is a 501(c)(3) public charity that on behalf of houston's children and their families, brings together organizations and passionate people working as one to help families heal and children thrive.
The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.
The Houston Area Women's Center (HAWC) works to end domestic and sexual violence and supports all in building safe and healthy lives through advocacy, counseling, education, shelter, and support services.
Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.
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.
To provide quality care to children and adults with developmental disabilities in a safe, loving home environment where they are treated with respect, compassion, and dignity and provided the means, support, and encouragement to reach…
The coalition for the homeless of houston/harris county acts as a catalyst, uniting partners and maximizing resources to move people experiencing homelessness into permanent housing with supportive services.
Summerhouse Houston's supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), their familites, and our community through employment, volunterism, and partnerships to foster a culture of belonging, choice and respect.
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Advocates Inc and the most unlike its peers is Emerging Grace Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds Camp For All Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Women's Resource of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds Emerging Grace Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds AIDS FOUNDATION HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds VITA LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Undies for Everyone ↗
- Who funds CASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC ↗
- Who funds PALMER DRUG ABUSE PROGRAM HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds A SMALL MIRACLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Elkins Foundation · Strake Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation · The Enrico & Sandra Di Portanova Charitable Foundation · The Brodsky Foundation · The Junior League of Houston Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Lillian Kaiser Lewis Foundation Co Frost Bank funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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