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The Smith Global 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $62k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PETER THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| THE HUB HOUSTON INC | $27,200 |
| THE CHILDREN'S FUND INC | $15,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S RESOURCE OF GREATER HOUSTON | $10,000 |
| MERCYFIRST | $7,500 |
| HOUSTON ARBORETUM & NATURE CENTER | $6,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| HOUSTON GIRLS HOCKEY ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| FAITHFUL PAWS PET THERAPY | $1,000 |
| THE ROSE | $500 |
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 (FY23–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% 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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 7 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, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $281k 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
- THTHE HUB HOUSTON INC2× · 2024–2025 · $77k · revenue -5%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S FUND INC2× · 2024–2025 · $65k · revenue +2%
- PTPTA TEXAS CONGRESS2× · 2023–2024 · $40k
Funded once
The Houston Food Bankone grant, 2024 · $140k · revenue +19%
MAUI FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $77k · revenue +138%- MHMAUI HUMANE SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $69k · revenue +79%
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.
Houston health foundation (hhf) has the mission of creating private/public partnerships for sustainable health and wellness initiatives and programs in our communities.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
Our mission is to provide high quality and caring services to promote healthy people and communities.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
The mission of Target Hunger is to alleviate hunger and its root causes in the Houston neighborhoods we serve. Target Hunger is on the front lines of hunger every day through its food distribution system that includes multiple food…
Serving houston employers we create value-based healthcare benefits of the future. (see expanded description).
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…
To provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a spiritual environment of caring in association with internationally recognized teaching and research.
The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.
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,…
To implement solutions that promote good health for the individual, the health system and the community. we collaborate with others as well as create signature, evidence-based ways to improve the communities where people live, work, learn…
As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercyfirst and the most unlike its peers is Friends for Wishes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 33 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 The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HUB HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S FUND INC ↗
- Who funds VICTORY HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Assist the Officer Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds The Women's Resource of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOR WISHES ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds The Council on Recovery ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON COMMUNITY TOOLBANK INC ↗
- Who funds MERCYFIRST ↗
- Who funds Houston Arboretum & Nature Center ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOODS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON GIRLS HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROSE ↗
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · MD Anderson Foundation · Sterling-Turner Foundation · Tll Temple Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Strake Foundation · The Zions Bancorporation Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Union Pacific 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 Smith Global 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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