How much does The Parten Foundation give?

The Parten Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $109,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Parten Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (18%), Human Services (17%), Arts & Culture (16%).

Who are The Parten Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Texas Tech Foundation Inc ($72k), The Houston Food Bank ($61k), Madison County House of Hope Inc ($50k).

Does The Parten Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Parten Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Parten Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, Still Water Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation.

Where is The Parten Foundation based?

The Parten Foundation is based in TX.

The Parten Foundation

The Parten Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$110k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$132kHuman Services$123kArts & Culture$114kInternational$66kCivil Rights$65kFood & Nutrition$61kReligion$49kHealth$35kOther$0

02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k11 grants · $45k
$10k–50k6 grants · $65k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UKRANIAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CLUB	$15,000
TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION	$10,000
ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL	$10,000
FRIENDS OF SHSU NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTION	$10,000
BENEVOLENT MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL	$10,000
ACCESS CARE OF COASTAL TEXAS INC	$10,000
Individual grant recipient	$7,500
LORD OF THE STREETS	$7,500
MADISON COUNTY HOUSE OF HOPE INC	$5,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
ACLU FOUNDATION	$5,000
MARSHALL DEPOT INC	$4,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA	$2,500
COVENANT HOUSE	$1,000

02The need

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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$661k · 28 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$661k

$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%

+26%

Still filing today

54%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther

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

The Houston Food Bank
4× · 2020–2023 · $61k · revenue +36%
MC
MADISON COUNTY HOUSE OF HOPE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +51%
SS
St Stephen's Episcopal School
3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +43%

Funded once

TA
Texas Annual Conference United Methodist Church
one grant, 2020 · $15k
HP
Houston Public Media Foundation
one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +4%
TT
THE TEXAS DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -13%

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.

Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies

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Texas Trust Gives

Philanthropy

Tex-E Inc

Education

Houston Geological Society Foundation

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Texas Clean Energy Coalition

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Greater Texas Foundation

Education

The Methodist Hospital

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.

Health

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

North Central Texas Medical Foundation

Health

Texas Healthcare & Bioscience Institute

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.

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Texas Bankers Foundation

Education

The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

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…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Tech Foundation Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 45 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

22/22

Grantees still filing

13/22

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$403,000Education$111,000International$65,500Arts & Culture$61,500Human Services$53,000Environment$20,500Civil Rights$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Shell USA Company FoundationTX13.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Parten Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Parten Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

2report 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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Parten Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Parten 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home