· Private foundation
The Nancy and Clive Runnells Foundation
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
- $10k–50k10 grants · $195k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER | $155,000 |
| THE MENIL COLLECTION | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE | $30,000 |
| HOUSTON AUDUBON SOCIETY INC | $25,000 |
| HOUSTON WILDERNESS INC | $20,000 |
| BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THE BROOKWOOD COMMUNITY INC | $15,000 |
| PROUNITAS | $15,000 |
| HOUSTON BOTANIC GARDEN | $15,000 |
| GLENWOOD CEMETERY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of your 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 +40% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- THThe Houston Audubon Society7× · 2017–2024 · $166k · revenue +230%
- BBBARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +40%
- HBHouston Botanic Garden3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- UHUT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER CONSORTIUM ON AGINGone grant, 2019 · $120k
- TNTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYone grant, 2023 · $50k
- WCWHARTON CITY RECOVERY TEAMone grant, 2017 · $35k
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.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The Houston Parks Board mission is to expand, improve, and protect parks and greenspace in the Houston region.
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 Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…
To completely restore Houston Freedmen's Town as a heritage district that provides America with its only Freedmen's Town.
The Houston Parks Board Foundation provides the Houston Parks Board with financial assistance to support operations and park projects.
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.
Mission: Connect communities with animals, inspiring action to save wildlife. Vision: Be a leader in the global movement to save wildlife. (Continued on Schedule O) Houston Zoo, Inc. (HZI) strives to be a zoo that practices exemplary…
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,…
The Coastal Prairie Conservancy (CPC) works to sustain a resilient Texas by preserving coastal prairies, wetlands, farms, and ranches to benefit people and wildlife forever. Continued on Schedule OCPC conserves land, restores and enhances…
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Hermann Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Harc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% 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 18% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 46 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 The Houston Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds Menil Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD CEMETERY INC ↗
- Who funds BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Houston Botanic Garden ↗
- Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds PROUNITAS INC ↗
- Who funds iEDUCATE ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON WILDERNESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILDLIFE CENTER OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Team Wharton Inc ↗
- Who funds Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds Texas Agricultural Land Trust ↗
- Who funds Galveston Bay Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MENNINGER CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Memorial Hermann Foundation ↗
- Who funds Houston Arboretum & Nature Center ↗
- Who funds Family Legacy Missions International ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON ISLAND NATURE TOURISM COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare ↗
- Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Brown Foundation Inc · Strake Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Pierce Runnells Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Leon Payne Jr 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 Nancy and Clive Runnells Foundation 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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