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The Parten Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UKRANIAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CLUB | $15,000 |
| TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BENEVOLENT MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| ACCESS CARE OF COASTAL TEXAS INC | $10,000 |
| ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SHSU NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTION | $10,000 |
| LORD OF THE STREETS | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| MADISON COUNTY HOUSE OF HOPE INC | $5,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MARSHALL DEPOT INC | $4,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $2,500 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.
28 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
The Houston Food Bank4× · 2020–2023 · $61k · revenue +36%- MCMADISON COUNTY HOUSE OF HOPE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +51%
- SSSt Stephen's Episcopal School3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- TATexas Annual Conference United Methodist Churchone grant, 2020 · $15k
- HPHouston Public Media Foundationone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +4%
- SMST MARTINS EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
To provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a spiritual environment of caring in association with internationally recognized teaching and research.
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…
The mission of the texas healthcare and bioscience institute is to research, develop, and advocate policies and actions that promote biomedical science, biotechnology, agriculture and medical device innovation in texas.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Madisonville Cemetery Assn Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% 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 14% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 45 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 TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds MADISON COUNTY HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds UKRAINIAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CLUB OF HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds St Stephen's Episcopal School ↗
- Who funds ACCESS CARE OF COASTAL TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds BENEVOLENT MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds CCA TEXAS FUND ↗
- Who funds Medical Bridges Inc ↗
- Who funds MADISONVILLE CEMETERY ASSN INC ↗
- Who funds Marshall Depot Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Public Media Foundation ↗
- Who funds The University of Texas Law School Foundation ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds THE TEXAS DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JUNETEENTH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Galveston Bay Foundation Inc ↗
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Still Water Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Parten 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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