· Private foundation
The Medrano Family 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 $10k27 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $136k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS | $33,333 |
| Individual grant recipient | $32,238 |
| STRAKE JESUIT COLLEGE PREPARATORY | $25,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS | $20,000 |
| JH RANCH | $15,000 |
| THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $10,261 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,029 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,040 |
| ST DOMINIC CATHOLIC CHURCH | $3,761 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,639 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,045 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS | $2,857 |
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,175 |
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, $131k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
20 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 21 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FUFURMAN UNIVERSITY5× · 2018–2024 · $130k · revenue +26%
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS7× · 2017–2024 · $129k · revenue +92%
- TSTHE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN5× · 2020–2024 · $58k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- HMHOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $5k
- AAVDAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +77%
- HMHOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCEINCEone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
See Schedule OThe Society of St. Vincent de Paul (the Society) provides services to support the mission of enhancing the quality of life for all people and helping them work toward living self-sufficient, dignified lives. Assistance may…
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
We provide Dropout Prevention Program to low income and homeless individuals who have experienced "personal hardships". We served 345 students an opportunity to obtain their High School Diploma so that they can become employable and/or…
The Center's mission is to create a haven where children are motivated, inspired, and equipped to realize their God-given potential.
Houston health foundation (hhf) has the mission of creating private/public partnerships for sustainable health and wellness initiatives and programs in our communities.
Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…
St. Peter Catholic High School empowers students to be models of faith through Catholic spiritual formation, while providing a creative and comprehensive education in career and technical pathways.
Hope for Youth builds and maintains long-term Christian mentoring relationships with urban youth to challenge and enable them to reach their full potential spiritually, academically, and socially. We serve at-risk youth in grades 6th-12th.…
St. Stephen's Episcopal School - Houston ("St. Stephen's", "the School") nurtures each child's academic, creative, and spiritual potential.
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 68 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 FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds AVDA ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Thrive School Network ↗
- Who funds Agape Development Ministries ↗
- Who funds KIPP Inc dba Knowledge is Power Program 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 · The Elkins Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Strake Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Houston Food Bank · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Shell USA Company Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Medrano Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Medrano Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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