· Private foundation
The Medallion Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k68 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k10 grants · $721k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HWY 71 RANCH | $902,639 |
| SPRING SPIRIT | $400,000 |
| SPRING SPIRIT BASEBALL | $350,000 |
| DONOR ADVISED FUND | $315,771 |
| AMAZING PLACE | $100,000 |
| SUMMERHOUSE HOUSTON | $100,000 |
| VITALIVING | $100,000 |
| CAMP FOR ALL FOUNDATION | $88,500 |
| VITALIVING | $65,000 |
| WESTERN ACADEMY | $60,000 |
| MEMORIAL VILLAGES POLICE FOUNDATION | $57,285 |
| BIG LOVE CANCER CARE SERVICES | $50,000 |
| KID'S MEALS INC | $50,000 |
| SHARPEN RECOVERY | $50,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN - TEXAS | $46,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +21% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
108 repeat relationships — 69 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 25 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $432k 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
- SISpringSpirit Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +55%
- VLVITA LIVING INC6× · 2017–2024 · $545k · revenue +23%
- BCBaylor College of Medicine4× · 2017–2023 · $284k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- SASEVEN ACRES JEWISH CENTERone grant, 2017 · $150k
- SFSER-JOBS FRO PROGRESSone grant, 2017 · $100k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS HARBOR INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -48%
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.
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.
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,…
Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.
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.
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 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.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
Amazing Place empowers families facing the challenges of dementia and Alzheimer's and advances brain health for all. The Organization serves adults with mild cognitive impairment and mild to moderate dementia, caregiving families and…
Our mission is to provide high quality and caring services to promote healthy people and communities.
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.
The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center holds a freestanding 37 bed inpatient facility in the Texas Medical Center that is operated and managed by Houston Hospice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Lake Houston and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 34 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 20% 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.
130 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. 130 of the 214 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SpringSpirit Inc ↗
- Who funds VITA LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds SUMMERHOUSE HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Camp For All Foundation ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds The Periwinkle Foundation ↗
- Who funds A SHELTER FOR CANCER FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Hospice ↗
- Who funds ST DOMINIC VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds HAVE SHEARS WILL TRAVEL ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH ↗
- Who funds TEXAS EDUCATION WORKS ↗
- Who funds AVDA ↗
- Who funds Memorial Villages Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds The Blue Bird Circle ↗
- Who funds Reynolds Hockey Academy ↗
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 · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Strake Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · Hildebrand Foundation
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 Medallion Foundation Inc 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.
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Health Care for the Homeless Inc — 2% of income from government
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.