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The Robert a and Margaret C Houston Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$140k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
8
Organizations funded FY2023
75%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$11,632
Largest grant, FY2023
$83,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
3
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 75% of the organizations The Robert a and Margaret C Houston Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20238$140k75%
FY20221$9k0%
FY20211$9k0%
FY20201$10k0%
FY20191$10k0%
FY20181$11k100%
FY20172$12kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Food & Nutrition$127kHealth$59kEducation$10kCrime & Legal$2kHuman Services$2kReligion$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($13k), not named here.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About The Robert a and Margaret C Houston Family Foundation

How much does The Robert a and Margaret C Houston Family Foundation give?
The Robert a and Margaret C Houston Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $139,632 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Robert a and Margaret C Houston Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (63%), Health (29%), Education (5%).
Who are The Robert a and Margaret C Houston Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Blaine County Hunger Coalition Inc ($127k), Swiftsure Ranch Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc ($21k), St Luke's Wood River Foundation Inc ($15k).
Does The Robert a and Margaret C Houston Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Robert a and Margaret C Houston Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Robert a and Margaret C Houston Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Robert a and Margaret C Houston Family Foundation based?
The Robert a and Margaret C Houston Family Foundation is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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