· Private foundation
The Springmeyer 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
85% of The Springmeyer Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Greater Houston Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 12 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Springmeyer Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $20k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k11 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FAMILY LEGACY MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL | $3,000 |
| BLESSED ASSURANCE GOSPEL CHURCH | $2,100 |
| TEXAS GOLF HALL OF FAME | $1,500 |
| COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS | $1,000 |
| THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON | $870 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $500 |
| ST DOMINIC VILLAGE | $250 |
| BOOT RANCH SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $250 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $206 |
| VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS | $100 |
| NICK FINNEGAN COUNSELING CENTER | $83 |
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 (FY20–25, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2022, 11 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- JDJoy Development School2× · 2021–2024 · $256k · revenue +3%
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS3× · 2020–2022 · $60k · revenue +22%
- TFThe For All Mankind Movement Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $36k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- CFCaring Friends Incone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -75%
- CCCAROLINA CREEK CHRISTIAN CAMPSone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +0%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETESgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +54%
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.
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.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
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 enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare is dedicated to extending the healing ministry of Jesus Christ, continuing the legacy of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word through the promotion of health and welfare to…
Mission: this organization is part of the methodist hospital, doing business as houston methodist hospital, whose mission is: to provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a…
To advance the Kingdom of God with specific focus on human health and well-being, through grants, research and initiatives in support of the mission of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas.
Christus health foundation of southeast texas serves the philanthropic needs of christus health southeast texas by soliciting and distributing contributions in support of christus health southeast texas.
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…
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 provide cutting-edge cardiac care to diagnose, treat, and prevent cardiovascular diseases.
Covenant HomeCare provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Harmon Family Foundation (Fka the Claude Harmon Foundation). 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 30 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) — 4% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 80 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 GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Joy Development School ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Caring Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds The For All Mankind Movement Inc ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds SEG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HELLMANN COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA CREEK CHRISTIAN CAMPS ↗
- Who funds HUNTERS CREEK ELEMENTARY PTA ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds Memorial Assistance Ministries ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Small Steps Nurturing Center ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST GEOLOGICAL LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Family Legacy Missions International ↗
- Who funds THE ROSE ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Hope and Healing Center & Institute ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERING WOMEN OUT OF PRISON INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE FORGE FOR FAMILIES ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Brown Foundation Inc · Sterling-Turner Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · Hildebrand Foundation · The Elkins 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 Springmeyer 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.