· Private foundation
The Rioco 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS | $10,000 |
| HOUSTON SYMPHONY | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK AT MCS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| KIDS' MEALS | $5,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| MAKE A WISH TEXAS GULF COAST AND LOUISIANA | $2,500 |
| ORPHAN OUTREACH | $2,500 |
| SUZANNAH SMILES | $1,000 |
| ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICES ADVISORY BOARD PERMIAN BASIN | $1,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
The Houston Food Bank2× · 2024–2025 · $25k · revenue +19%- HSHouston Symphony Society2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +17%
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST & LOUISIANA INC2× · 2024–2025 · $8k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- CICONSPIRARE INCone grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue +14%
- GDGREAT DANE RESCUE OF SE TEXASone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
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.
Harmonia Stellarum is an ensemble of professional vocalists and instrumentalists specialized in historically informed performance practice who seek to inspire, entertain, and enlighten audiences with meaningful, historically informed…
The mission of HGO is to enrich our diverse community through the art of opera. We will do so by creating, curating, exploring, and producing outstanding experiences centered around the human voice.(Continued on Schedule O)
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
To shape the future of classical music by energizing, modernizing, and personalizing the concert experience.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
To present the highest-quality performances of great music, bringing national and international distinction to the orchestra and its community; to delight and educate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and enhance the cultural vitality…
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
The Nashville Symphony inspires and engages a diverse and growing community with extraordinary live orchestral music experiences. As Middle Tennessee continues to grow and transform, the Nashville Symphony will be a financially robust,…
The mission of Houston Youth Symphony (HYS) is to nurture personal growth through exceptional music education. HYS envisions a world where exceptional music education is accessible to all.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
Texas children's hospital, headquartered in houston, texas, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 13 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Rioco Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rioco Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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