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The RR Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $49k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| HOUSTON CHAMBER CHOIR | $50,000 |
| THE BEACON | $23,575 |
| THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $15,360 |
| THE CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL | $10,000 |
| KIWANIS FOUNDATION OF HOUSTON | $9,925 |
| HERMANN PARK CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| Holly Hall Retirement Community | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| Friends of Pumpkin Park | $5,000 |
| Navy Seal Foundation | $5,000 |
| GALVESTON BAY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HOUSTON HOSPICE | $3,000 |
| ROCO | $3,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM HOUSTON | $2,600 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of your 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.
53 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
THE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON8× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +73%- HCHOUSTON CHAMBER CHOIR5× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +360%
- SJSt John's School5× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +130%
Funded once
- NCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $207k · revenue ×103
- LOLast Organic Outpostone grant, 2021 · $10k · 100% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $8k
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.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…
To advance the conservation of birds and their habitats in the Greater Houston Gulf Coast region by acquiring and maintaining critical habitat as bird sanctuaries, providing education programs and nature experiences, and advocating policy…
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
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…
Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…
The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…
The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…
The Houston Parks Board Foundation provides the Houston Parks Board with financial assistance to support operations and park projects.
To shape the future of classical music by energizing, modernizing, and personalizing the concert experience.
See Schedule OThe purpose of Awty International School (Awty) is to create an environment where students experience excellence every day to make their mark on the world alongside their community, in a spirit of curiosity, courage and…
The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. 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 56 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
48 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. 48 of the 83 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 NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON CHAMBER CHOIR ↗
- Who funds St John's School ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS FOUNDATION OF HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association ↗
- Who funds Hermann Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Last Organic Outpost ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Houston Hospice ↗
- Who funds Houston Center for Photography Inc ↗
- Who funds Galveston Bay Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Public Media Foundation ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INPRINT INC ↗
- Who funds ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER ↗
- Who funds RIVER OAKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Camp Allen Camp & Conference Center ↗
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 Brown Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Alvin & Lucy Owsley Foundation · The Powell Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Robert and Janice McNair 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 RR Family 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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