· Private foundation
The Reso Foundation
Its FY2018 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 FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k11 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LSU FOUNDATION | $1,500,000 |
| ST ALOYSIUS CENTURY FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| GIRLS WRITE NOW | $10,000 |
| GALILEE CENTER | $10,000 |
| HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS - HOUSTON | $10,000 |
| CONCERTS IN MOTION | $5,000 |
| WOMEN'S MICROFINANCE INITIATIVE | $5,000 |
| HARLEM RBI | $5,000 |
| REED ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| THE HEALTH WAGON | $5,000 |
| ECHOS | $5,000 |
| INTERFAITH MINISTRIES FOR GREATER HOUSTON | $5,000 |
| PURPLE SONGS CAN FLY | $5,000 |
| TONI'S KITCHEN ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| CENTRO COMUNITARIO CEUS | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +97% since the first grant, against +84% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M 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
- GCGALILEE CENTER INC2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +730%
- HFHEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS-HOUSTON2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +10%
- GWGIRLS WRITE NOW INC2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +108%
Funded once
- FRFR RAY BRENNAN SPONSOR A CHILD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k
- TATHE ANNUNCIATION MATERNITY HOME INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +84%
- HFHIGH FIVES FOUNDATIONone 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.
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,…
We strive to maximize participation in, and support for, federally funded nutrition assistance programs including supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), the school breakfast program and national school lunch program, the summer…
Houston galveston institute aims to transform lives and communities with innovative and collaborative therapy, training and research. the organization also aims to promote a respectful, collaborative partnership between the learner and the…
Our mission is to provide high quality and caring services to promote healthy people and communities.
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.
The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…
Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…
To give short term assistance to those in need and minister to various other human needs
Houston health foundation (hhf) has the mission of creating private/public partnerships for sustainable health and wellness initiatives and programs in our communities.
The organization is committed to providing the full spectrum of life-enhancing care and services to create and sustain healthy, vibrant communities. please refer to schedule h, part vi, question 5 for the organization's community benefit…
Through food, personal relationship, and the power of community, the organization breaks down barriers between people, empowers individuals, and strengthens neighborhoods. we believe in radical solution; solving problems at their roots by…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harlem Rbi Inc and the most unlike its peers is Portlight Strategies Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 22 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 LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST ALOYSIUS CENTURY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GALILEE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS-HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WRITE NOW INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS MICROFINANCE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds VETERANS YOGA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CONCERTS IN MOTION INC ↗
- Who funds REED ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC ↗
- Who funds Purple Songs Can Fly ↗
- Who funds HARLEM RBI INC ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds THE ANNUNCIATION MATERNITY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds PORTLIGHT STRATEGIES 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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Reso 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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