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· Public charity

The Roger Clemens Foundation

Support of educational and athletic organizations for children; additional support provided to at-risk families.

$180k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$919kHealth$59kAnimals$37kYouth Development$20kReligion$18kCommunity Improvement$15kEducation$13kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $89,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $180,355 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $91,355 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $82k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$332k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JW CHAL-TX ST DEPT OF ATHLE$22,000
MISSION SUCCESS$20,000
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE$10,000
CAMP ARANZAZU$10,000
HELPING A HERO$10,000
LIFE RING FOUNDATION$10,000
KIDS MEALS INC$7,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CAMP ARANZAZU: $10k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $7k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$977k · 6 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$977k
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+8%

Still filing today

50%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsRecreation & SportsEducationOther
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

  • SA
    SPORTS AUTHORITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +40%
  • RC
    RED COLLAR RESCUE INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $37k · revenue +36%
  • BD
    BALLER DREAM FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • VV
    VERDE VALLEY SANCTUARY
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -11%
  • BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +6%
  • PI
    PASSAGES INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $14k · revenue -99%
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.

1
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

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,…

Health
2
Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.

Community Improvement
3
Impact100 Houston Inc

The Impact100 model empowers women to see themselves as philanthropists and overcome the barriers women have historically faced in this arena. The model is designed for transformational grant-making within local communities.

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4
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
5
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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6
Texas Children's Hospital Foundation

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.

Health
7
Health Care Without Harm

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…

Environment
8
Harris County Hospital District Foundation

The mission of the Harris County Hospital District Foundation is to enhance the broad healthcare mission of the Harris Health System by soliciting and raising funds for programs and increasing the community's awareness of the Harris Health…

Health
9
Rebuilding Together Houston

Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…

Housing & Shelter
10
Healthcare for the Homeless-Houston

Non-profit corporation providing healthcare to the homeless.

Human Services
11
Mhs Physicians of Texas

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,…

Health
12
Hospitality Apartments

The Hospitality Apartments provide no-cost lodgingexcept for cleaning fee to out of town patients living greater than 50 miles from Houston receiving care from any of the hospitals in the Houston Medical Center.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Hermann Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Red Collar Rescue 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

17 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. 17 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $750,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXASJW CHAL-TX ST DEPT OF ATHLE: $102,000 · OtherJW CHAL-TX ST DEPT OF ATHLE+5 more: $59,500 · Other+5 moreSPORTS AUTHORITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsBALLER DREAM FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthTexas Children's Hospital: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $250 · HealthRED COLLAR RESCUE INC: $36,700 · AnimalsLIFE RING FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyHOUSTON TEXAS EXES INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyHelping a HeroOrg: $10,000 · PhilanthropyANNIKA FOUNDATION: $6,700 · PhilanthropyMISSION SQUASH OF HOUSTON: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentCamp Aranzazu Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INC: $7,000 · Human Services
Other$911,500Recreation & Sports$50,000Health$45,250Animals$36,700Philanthropy$36,700Youth Development$20,000Human Services$17,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPORTS AUTHORITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetRED COLLAR RESCUE INC: $36,700 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetBALLER DREAM FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMISSION SQUASH OF HOUSTON: $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetVERDE VALLEY SANCTUARY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPASSAGES INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON TEXAS EXES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetANNIKA FOUNDATION: $6,700 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLinda Lorelle Scholarship Fund: $2,900 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetMemorial Hermann Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Greater Houston Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX19.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Roger Clemens Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Roger Clemens Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–5%
    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 Roger Clemens Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Roger Clemens 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.

    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 20 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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