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The Nancy and Clive Runnells Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$400k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$155,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 16
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$4.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations The Nancy and Clive Runnells Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentHealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving12$400k8%
FY202312$375k17%
FY20228$220k50%
FY202113$330k54%
FY20205$235k40%
FY20198$159k50%
FY201811$59k82%
FY201716$188kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$825kAnimals$196kEnvironment$191kReligion$188kEducation$143kArts & Culture$115kMembership Benefit$60kPhilanthropy$56kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Houston Audubon Society$166,00072%
The Church of St John the Divine$117,5004n/a
Menil Foundation Inc$110,00030%
Glenwood Cemetery Inc$60,00020%
Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation$60,00040%
Houston Botanic Garden$45,00030%
Prounitas Inc$40,00031%
The Brookwood Community Inc$40,00030%
iEDUCATE$35,00021%
Houston Wilderness Inc$31,00042%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Nancy and Clive Runnells Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Houston Audubon Society: $166,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetMenil Foundation Inc: $110,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGlenwood Cemetery Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBarbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation: $60,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHouston Botanic Garden: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetProunitas Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetiEDUCATE: $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHouston Wilderness Inc: $31,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetThe Wildlife Center of Texas Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMemorial Park Conservancy Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGalveston Bay Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Menninger Clinic: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Hermann Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Agricultural Land Trust: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Arboretum & Nature Center: $8,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFamily Legacy Missions International: $8,016 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Paul's School: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGalveston Island Nature Tourism Council: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Eye Associates Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNational Parks Conservation Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOcean Reef Chapel Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTexas Biomedical Research Institute: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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 Community FoundationTX24.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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Find your warmest path to The Nancy and Clive Runnells Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Nancy and Clive Runnells Foundation

How much does The Nancy and Clive Runnells Foundation give?
The Nancy and Clive Runnells Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $400,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Nancy and Clive Runnells Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (42%), Animals (10%), Environment (10%).
Who are The Nancy and Clive Runnells Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Houston Audubon Society ($166k), The Church of St John the Divine ($118k), Menil Foundation Inc ($110k).
Does The Nancy and Clive Runnells Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Nancy and Clive Runnells Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Nancy and Clive Runnells Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, John P McGovern Foundation, The William Stamps Farish Fund.
Where is The Nancy and Clive Runnells Foundation based?
The Nancy and Clive Runnells Foundation is based in TX.

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 46 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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