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The Nancy and Clive Runnells Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Nancy and Clive Runnells Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$400k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$155k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $205k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PROUNITAS$15,000
THE BROOKWOOD COMMUNITY INC$15,000
BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION$15,000
HOUSTON BOTANIC GARDEN$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
GLENWOOD CEMETERY$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%IRON CITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $50k → 11%GALVESTON BAY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%THE BROOKWOOD COMMUNITY INC: $15k → 14%WHARTON CITY RECOVERY TEAM: $35k → 15%TEXAS AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $10k → 16%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB BAY CITY: $10k → 20%THE BROOKWOOD COMMUNITY INC: $15k → 14%TEAM WHARTON: $20k → 15%THE BROOKWOOD COMMUNITY INC: $10k → 14%THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE: $30k → 16%THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE: $30k → 16%ST JOHN THE DIVINE: $30k → 16%THE MENIL COLLECTION: $50k → 16%ST JOHN THE DIVINE EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $30k → 16%THE MENIL COLLECTION: $50k → 16%ST JOHN THE DIVINE EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $28k → 16%THE MENIL COLLECTION: $10k → 16%ST JOHN THE DIVINE: $20k → 16%ST JOHN THE DIVINE: $20k → 16%HOUSTON ARBORETUM: $40k → 16%HOUSTON ARBORETUM: $25k → 16%HOUSTON ARBORETUM: $25k → 16%MEMORIAL HERMANN FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%WILDLIFE CENTER OF TEXAS: $10k → 16%WILDLIFE CENTER OF TEXAS: $10k → 16%WILDLIFE CENTER OF TEXAS: $10k → 16%HOUSTON SCPA: $10k → 16%GLENWOOD CEMETERY: $50k → 16%GLENWOOD CEMETERY: $10k → 16%IEDUCATE USA: $25k → 16%IEDUCATE USA: $10k → 16%PROUNITAS: $15k → 16%PROUNITAS: $15k → 16%BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%HOUSTON BOTANIC GARDEN: $15k → 16%BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%HOUSTON BOTANIC GARDEN: $15k → 16%BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FDN: $15k → 16%HOUSTON BOTANIC GARDEN: $15k → 16%MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $15k → 16%HOUSTON AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $60k → 16%HOUSTON AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $25k → 16%HOUSTON AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $25k → 16%HOUSTON AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $25k → 16%HOUSTON AUDUBON: $25k → 16%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $50k → 16%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN TEXAS: $25k → 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 18 repeat orgs$356k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
26

Total granted

$1.6M
$346k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+17%

Still filing today

67%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • TH
    The Houston Audubon Society
    7× · 2017–2024 · $166k · revenue +230%
  • BB
    BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +40%
  • HB
    Houston Botanic Garden
    3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • UH
    UT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER CONSORTIUM ON AGING
    one grant, 2019 · $120k
  • TN
    THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • WC
    WHARTON CITY RECOVERY TEAM
    one grant, 2017 · $35k
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
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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2
Houston Parks Board

The Houston Parks Board mission is to expand, improve, and protect parks and greenspace in the Houston region.

Philanthropy
3
Harris County Medical Society

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…

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4
The Heritage Society

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…

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5
Houston Freedmen's Town Conservancy Inc

To completely restore Houston Freedmen's Town as a heritage district that provides America with its only Freedmen's Town.

Community Improvement
6
The Houston Parks Board Foundation

The Houston Parks Board Foundation provides the Houston Parks Board with financial assistance to support operations and park projects.

Environment
7
Houston Bar Foundation

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.

Crime & Legal
8
Houston Zoo Inc

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…

Animals
9
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

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,…

Health
10
Coastal Prairie Conservancy

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…

Environment
11
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
12
American Leadership Forum Houston Gulf Coast Chapter

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Hermann Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 46 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
19/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER: $615,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTERUT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER CONSORTIUM ON AGING: $120,000 · OtherUT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER CONSORTIUM ON AGINGTHE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE: $117,500 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINEIndividual grant recipient: $90,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST JOHN THE DIVINE: $70,000 · OtherGLENWOOD CEMETERY INC: $60,000 · OtherIRON CITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $55,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $50,000 · Other+15 more: $156,016 · Other+15 moreThe Houston Audubon Society: $166,000 · EnvironmentThe Houston Audu…Houston Botanic Garden: $45,000 · EnvironmentHouston Botanic …HOUSTON WILDERNESS INC: $31,000 · EnvironmentHOUSTON WILDERNE…Memorial Park Conservancy Inc: $15,000 · EnvironmentGalveston Bay Foundation Inc: $10,000 · EnvironmentTexas Agricultural Land Trust: $10,000 · Environment+3 more: $14,500 · EnvironmentMenil Foundation Inc: $110,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureThe Brookwood Community Inc: $40,000 · EducationiEDUCATE: $35,000 · EducationST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $7,500 · EducationBARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $600 · PhilanthropyPROUNITAS INC: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentTeam Wharton Inc: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MENNINGER CLINIC: $10,000 · HealthMemorial Hermann Foundation: $10,000 · HealthCHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthHARC: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,333,516Environment$291,500Arts & Culture$112,500Education$82,500Philanthropy$60,600Youth Development$60,000Health$25,500Recreation & Sports$1,000

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 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 budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $600 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
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 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 PROUNITAS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Brookwood Community 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 Galveston Bay Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MENNINGER CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Memorial Hermann Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Texas Agricultural Land Trust ↗
  • Who funds Houston Arboretum & Nature Center ↗
  • Who funds Family Legacy Missions International ↗
  • Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare ↗
  • Who funds GALVESTON ISLAND NATURE TOURISM COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
  • Who funds HOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION ↗

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…John P McGovern Found…The William Stamps Fa…The Brown Foundation …Strake FoundationShell USA Company Fou…Albert & Ethel Herzst…Pierce Runnells Found…Marek Family Foundati…Houston Endowment IncCenterpoint Energy Fo…Leon Payne Jr Foundat…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Nancy and Clive Runnells Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nancy and Clive Runnells Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Nancy and Clive Runnells Foundation?

    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.

    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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