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The Rawley Foundation Xxxxx0008

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.

$4.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Health$11MHuman Services$5.4MEducation$2.2MReligion$1.9MInternational$1.6MHousing & Shelter$585kEnvironment$263kCrime & Legal$255kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k24 grants · $645k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $983k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.8M
$32,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$78M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA OF THE ROCKIES$1,250,000
TEXAS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$850,000
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION$700,000
ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN EVERYWHERE$200,000
GATEWAY COMMUNITY CHURCH$150,000
THE ROSE$100,000
THE BROOKWOOD COMMUNITY INC$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON$100,000
TEXAS HEARING INSTITUTE$82,500
HOUSTON FOOD BANK$50,000
ST PAUL CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC$50,000
PTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$50,000
COASTAL PRAIRIE CONSERVANCY$50,000
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION$50,000
HOUSTON HOSPICE$40,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COUNSELING CONNECTIONS FOR CHANGE: $70k → 10%ST PAUL CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 12%BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $15k → 14%MISSION OF MERCY INC: $15k → 17%COUNSELING CONNECTIONS FOR CHANGE: $40k → 10%ST PAUL CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $80k → 12%COUNSELING CONNECTIONS FOR CHANGE: $25k → 10%ST PAUL CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $70k → 12%SOLEANA STABLES: $20k → 10%ST PAUL CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 12%SOLEANA STABLES: $10k → 10%ST PAUL CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 12%ST PAUL CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 12%JULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES INC: $20k → 14%ST PAUL CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 12%JULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES INC: $10k → 14%SELAH LIFE CHOICES: $25k → 12%THE FOUNDATION FOR HOPE: $100k → 14%THE FOUNDATION FOR HOPE: $50k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $25k → 16%BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS: $175k → 16%BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS: $175k → 16%BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS: $145k → 16%TARGET HUNGER: $30k → 16%TARGET HUNGER: $25k → 16%TARGET HUNGER: $25k → 16%TARGET HUNGER: $25k → 16%TARGET HUNGER: $25k → 16%TARGET HUNGER: $20k → 16%THE CENTER FOR PURSUIT: $35k → 16%THE CENTER FOR PURSUIT: $25k → 16%THE CENTER FOR PURSUIT: $25k → 16%LOVING HOUSTON INC: $13k → 16%LOVING HOUSTON INC: $13k → 16%LOVING HOUSTON INC: $10k → 16%MY CONNECT COMMUNITY: $30k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$24M · 56 repeat orgs$841k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

56 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
31

Total granted

$24M
$659k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
0%

Still filing today

79%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $183k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • TC
    Texas Children's Hospital
    7× · 2019–2025 · $5.9M · revenue +48%
  • YMCA OF THE ROCKIES
    5× · 2019–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +29%
  • THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
    7× · 2019–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +213%

Funded once

  • UB
    UNIVERSITY BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $200k
  • MC
    My Connect Community
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
  • SL
    SELAH LIFE CHOICES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Breakthrough Houston

The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.

Education
2
LifeHouse of Houston Inc

LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.

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3
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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4
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
5
Central Houston Inc

See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.

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6
Central Houston Civic Improvement Inc

Central houston civic improvement lnc.'s mission is to ensure the continued vitality and to support development of downtown and the central city that is critical to the continued health and growth of houston.

Community Improvement
7
Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County

The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.

Human Services
8
Presbyterian School

Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…

Education
9
The Retreat Home for Children

Our mission is to show the love of christ to each and every child and family towhom we serve and beyond. we do this by creating a culture where the needs of children,families, and staff are seen and met in creative and innovative ways.

Crime & Legal
10
Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc

Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

Housing & Shelter
11
Community Information Now

Community information now (cinow) provides data, tools, analysis, and training to inform decisions to improve texas communities. cinow's vision is improved lives and decreased disparities through democratized data.

Community Improvement
12
Collaborative for Children

The mission of Collaborative for Children is to meaningfully improve the quality of early childhood education and care for Greater Houston's children through those most influential in their lives.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Loving Houston Inc and the most unlike its peers is Farwide Conservation 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 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%8%<5yr17%2%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr9%18%35–55yr12%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%1%<5yr17%0%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr16%63%20–35yr9%9%35–55yr12%17%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/76
the rest of the field
17%
9,773/56,344

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.

04the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 94 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/68
Grantees still filing
42/68
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Texas Children's Hospital — $5,900,000 · HealthTexas Children's HospitalTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $1,975,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINS…Memorial Hermann Foundation — $350,000 · HealthHalo House Foundation — $335,000 · Health+2 more — $120,000 · HealthYMCA OF THE ROCKIES — $3,545,430 · Human ServicesYMCA OF THE ROCKIESTHE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC — $795,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED W…ST PAUL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $450,000 · Human ServicesST PAUL CHILDREN'S FOUNDAT…+14 more — $851,000 · Human Services+14 moreGATEWAY COMMUNITY CHURCH — $1,275,000 · OtherGATEWAY COMMUNITY CHURCHAPPARO ACADEMY INC — $555,000 · OtherAPPARO ACADEMY INCTHE ROSE — $530,000 · OtherTHE ROSEHOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $320,000 · OtherALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION — $320,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON — $310,000 · OtherSAGEMONT BAPTIST CHURCH — $300,000 · OtherVITA LIVING INC — $240,000 · Other+46 more — $2,466,500 · Other+46 moreThe Brookwood Community Inc — $555,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $450,000 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH — $307,500 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS-BAY AREA INC — $205,000 · EducationHUMBLE ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $63,000 · Education+5 more — $105,000 · EducationAlliance for Children Everywhere — $1,115,000 · InternationalStarfish Kenya Inc — $440,000 · InternationalSTAR OF HOPE MISSION — $315,000 · Housing & ShelterNew Hope Housing Inc — $90,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $63,000 · Housing & ShelterCoastal Prairie Conservancy — $150,000 · EnvironmentFarwide Conservation Inc — $30,000 · Environment
Health$8,680,000Human Services$5,641,430Other$6,316,500Education$1,685,500International$1,555,000Housing & Shelter$468,000Environment$180,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTexas Children's Hospital — $5,900,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA OF THE ROCKIES — $3,545,430 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $1,975,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAlliance for Children Everywhere — $1,115,000 over 7y, 20% of budgetTHE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC — $795,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetAPPARO ACADEMY INC — $555,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc — $555,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetTHE ROSE — $530,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetST PAUL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $450,000 over 7y, 9.6% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $450,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetStarfish Kenya Inc — $440,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetMemorial Hermann Foundation — $350,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHalo House Foundation — $335,000 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetHOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $320,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION — $315,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH — $307,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetVITA LIVING INC — $240,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $210,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS-BAY AREA INC — $205,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetChildren At Risk — $165,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCoastal Prairie Conservancy — $150,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTarget Hunger Inc — $150,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR HOPE VILLAGE — $150,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCounseling Connections for Change Inc — $135,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $120,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Blue Bird Circle — $110,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBakerRipley — $110,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hope Housing Inc — $90,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFt Bend County Child Advocates Inc — $90,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHouston Hospice — $90,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PURSUIT — $85,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTrees For Houston — $82,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $63,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHUMBLE ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $63,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetRiver Oaks Chamber Orchestra — $60,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetKinetic Kids Inc — $60,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCHILDRENS TRANSPLANT INITIATIVE — $52,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFESCHOOL OF DALLAS — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOVING HOUSTON INC — $36,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetMy Connect Community — $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOLEANA STABLES — $30,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetFarwide Conservation Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetJULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetContemporary Arts Museum Houston — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSELAH LIFE CHOICES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds Alliance for Children Everywhere ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
  • Who funds APPARO ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE ROSE ↗
  • Who funds ST PAUL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Starfish Kenya Inc ↗
  • Who funds Memorial Hermann Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Halo House Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH ↗
  • Who funds VITA LIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds CHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS-BAY AREA INC ↗
  • Who funds Children At Risk ↗
  • Who funds Coastal Prairie Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds Target Hunger Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR HOPE VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds Counseling Connections for Change Inc ↗
  • Who funds PTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds The Blue Bird Circle ↗
  • Who funds BakerRipley ↗
  • Who funds New Hope Housing Inc ↗
  • Who funds Ft Bend County Child Advocates 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.

Strake FoundationAlbert & Ethel Herzst…Greater Houston Commu…Harry S & Isabel C Ca…Shell USA Company Fou…The Brown Foundation …The Elkins FoundationHouston Endowment IncVivian L Smith Founda…The William Stamps Fa…Centerpoint Energy Fo…MD Anderson Foundation
Strake FoundationTX41.5× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Elkins Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · MD Anderson 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 Rawley Foundation Xxxxx0008 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 94 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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