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The Menninger Clinic

Menninger is a world leader in psychiatric treatment, research and education.

$291k
Granted FY2021
5
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$69k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Education$1.5MHealth$890kArts & Culture$410kYouth Development$347kCommunity Improvement$22k
02FY2021 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $41k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
$63,960
Median grant
1
States reached
$71M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Pasadena ISD$69,283
New Caney ISD$64,598
Connect Community$63,960
Galveston ISD$51,995
Spring Branch Education Fdn$40,738
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%New Caney ISD: $146k → 9%Galveston ISD: $178k → 14%Boys & Girls Clubs of Gr Hou: $135k → 16%New Caney ISD: $65k → 9%Galveston ISD: $175k → 14%Boys & Girls Clubs of Gr Hou: $25k → 16%Galveston ISD: $130k → 14%St Johns School: $15k → 16%Galveston ISD: $52k → 14%Baylor College of Medicine: $40k → 16%St Johns School: $12k → 16%Spring Branch Education Fdn: $150k → 16%Spring Branch Education Fdn: $41k → 16%TX-French Alliance for Arts: $40k → 16%ProUnitas Inc: $282k → 16%Communities in School Houston: $38k → 16%Pasadena ISD: $175k → 16%Pasadena ISD: $88k → 16%Pasadena ISD: $80k → 16%Pasadena ISD: $69k → 16%Alley Theatre: $200k → 16%University of Houston: $140k → 16%Alley Theatre: $125k → 16%University of Houston: $25k → 16%Alley Theatre: $45k → 16%University of Houston: $7k → 16%The Council on Recovery: $80k → 16%Connect Community: $185k → 16%Connect Community: $185k → 16%Legacy Community Health Svcs: $126k → 16%Connect Community: $64k → 16%CHAT Girls Club for Success: $22k → 16%Legacy Community Health Svcs: $20k → 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 9 repeat orgs$542k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +130% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$2.7M
$542k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+130%
+28%

Still filing today

56%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Youth DevelopmentEducationHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • LC
    LEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $579k · revenue +264%
  • AT
    ALLEY THEATRE
    3× · 2017–2020 · $370k · revenue +107%
  • SB
    SPRING BRANCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $191k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • PI
    PROUNITAS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $282k · revenue +122%
  • TC
    The Council on Recovery
    one grant, 2020 · $80k · revenue +15%
  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicinegraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue +47%
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
Arts Connect Houston

Arts Connect Houston unites with the greater Houston community to ensure access to high-quality arts education in creative writing, dance, music, theater, and the visual arts for every student, beginning with Houston ISD.

Arts & Culture
2
The Awty International School

See Schedule OThe purpose of Awty International School (Awty) is to create an environment where students experience excellence every day to make their mark on the world alongside their community, in a spirit of curiosity, courage and…

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3
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

CAMH presents extraordinary and thought-provoking arts programming and exhibitions.

Arts & Culture
4
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
5
The Fay School

See Schedule O. The Fay School ("the School") is a nonsectarian, not-for-profit, co-educational school in which children of diverse talents and backgrounds with strong academic abilities are offered a high-quality education in a secure,…

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6
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
7
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
8
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
9
Houston Museum of Natural Science

The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…

Arts & Culture
10
Houston Grand Opera Association Inc

The mission of HGO is to enrich our diverse community through the art of opera. We will do so by creating, curating, exploring, and producing outstanding experiences centered around the human voice.(Continued on Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
11
Wonderworks

Wonderworks educates students to become better-qualified college applicants and better equipped to succeed in undergraduate studies by exploring challenging subject matter and techniques in a college setting.

Education
12
Good Reason Houston Inc

Good Reason Houston strives to grow and sustain great schools while advocating for families and communities.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities in Schools of Houston Inc; the most unlike its peers is Legacy Community Health Services Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 16 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Pasadena ISD: $411,783 · OtherPasadena ISDGalveston ISD: $404,995 · OtherGalveston ISDUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $301,556 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTONNew Caney ISD: $210,598 · OtherNew Caney ISD+1 more: $26,750 · OtherLEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $579,460 · HealthLEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH…The Council on Recovery: $80,000 · HealthThe Council on RecoveryPROUNITAS INC: $282,442 · Youth DevelopmentPROUNITAS INCBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc: $160,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys and Girls Cl…WORKSHOP HOUSTON: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentWORKSHOP HOUSTONALLEY THEATRE: $370,000 · Arts & CultureALLEY THEATRETEXAN-FRENCH ALLIANCE FOR THE ARTS: $40,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAN-FRENCH A…SPRING BRANCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $190,738 · EducationSPRING BR…Baylor College of Medicine: $40,000 · EducationBaylor Co…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC: $37,500 · EducationCOMMUNITI…CULTURE OF HEALTH - ADVANCING TOGETHER: $22,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,355,682Health$659,460Youth Development$482,442Arts & Culture$410,000Education$268,238Community Improvement$22,000

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 budgetLEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $579,460 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALLEY THEATRE: $370,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSPRING BRANCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $190,738 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc: $160,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe Council on Recovery: $80,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAN-FRENCH ALLIANCE FOR THE ARTS: $40,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSt John's School: $26,750 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

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…Houston Endowment IncThe Brown Foundation …Shell USA Company Fou…The Blackbaud Giving …Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX20.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Menninger Clinic funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Menninger Clinic. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 16 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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