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The Stanford & Joan Alexander 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.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$1.7M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Science & Tech$9.5MArts & Culture$3.2MHealth$2.9MPhilanthropy$1.2MEducation$1.1MInternational$607kHuman Services$168kReligion$73kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.5M
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$32k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST (THROUGH JPMORGAN)$1,749,645
GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION$743,694
JUDAISM AND DEMOCRACY ACTION ALLIANCE$125,000
UTHEALTH MCGOVERN MEDICAL SCHOOL A COMPONENT OF UTHEALTH HOUSTON$50,000
MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF GREATER HOUSTON INC$25,000
PATH WITH HEART COMMUNITY INC$15,000
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER A COMPONENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM$10,000
HATIKVAH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$10,000
ASCENSION LIVING FOUNDATION$5,005
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON$5,000
CHABAD AT RICE INC$5,000
KERUSSO GRACE CHURCH$3,000
CHRISTIANS UNITED FOR ISRAEL$1,000
HADASSAH THE WOMEN'S ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA INC-HOUSTON CHAPTER$500
HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK$500
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 (FY17–25, $912k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $250 → 6%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $744k → 11%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $10k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $100k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $12k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $11k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $592 → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $250 → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $250 → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $1k → 16%HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $20k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $3k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $5k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
MD
KS
DC
LA
TX
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 53 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
103

Total granted

$17M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+12%

Still filing today

64%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationInternationalReligionOther
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

  • TG
    THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION
    2× · 2019–2025 · $754k · revenue +24%
  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON
    6× · 2017–2025 · $672k · revenue +96%
  • TC
    Texas Children's Hospital
    2× · 2018–2019 · $625k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • UH
    UT HEALTH PALLIATIVE MEDICINE
    one grant, 2022 · $997k
  • WE
    WONDERLAND EDUCATIONAL ESTATE DBA BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +3%
  • UH
    UT HEALTH MCGOVERN MEDICAL SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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
Houston Museum of Natural Science

The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
4
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
5
John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Trees for Houston

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

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7
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…

Health
8
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
9
Holocaust Museum Houston Foundation

Support holocaust museum houston financially in educating people about the holocaust, remembering the 6 million jews and other innocent victims and honoring the survivors' legacy.

Philanthropy
10
The Awty International School

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…

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11
Tmh Physician Organization

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 spiritual…

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12
Harris County Medical Society

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Methodist Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The National Museum of Women in the Arts. 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

98 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 98 of the 167 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/98
Grantees still filing
63/98
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $10,144,430 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTONNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST (THROUGH JPMORGAN): $1,749,645 · OtherNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST (THROUGH JPMORGAN)MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $1,243,522 · OtherMUSEUM OF FINE ARTSUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER HOUSTON: $1,025,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER HOUSTONUT HEALTH PALLIATIVE MEDICINE: $997,289 · OtherUT HEALTH PALLIATIVE MEDICINEJewish Federation of Greater Houston: $805,000 · Other+100 more: $1,323,424 · Other+100 moreHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON: $1,090,000 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST …THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $671,500 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM…JUDAISM AND DEMOCRACY ACTION ALLIANCE OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureJUDAISM AN…+13 more: $68,425 · Arts & CultureTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $753,694 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $124,404 · Human Services+6 more: $37,250 · Human ServicesTexas Children's Hospital: $625,000 · HealthTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Health+18 more: $103,300 · HealthAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $530,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $65,000 · International+4 more: $24,000 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $20,000 · Civil RightsTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND: $18,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $15,000 · Civil RightsBaylor College of Medicine: $20,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $15,000 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice University: $7,500 · EducationThe Brookwood Community Inc: $3,000 · Education+4 more: $2,680 · Education
Other$17,288,310Arts & Culture$1,954,925Human Services$915,348Health$778,300International$619,000Civil Rights$53,000Education$48,180

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON: $1,090,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetJewish Federation of Greater Houston: $805,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $753,694 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $671,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $625,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $530,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY INC: $400,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetWONDERLAND EDUCATIONAL ESTATE DBA BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE: $250,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $124,404 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $65,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINPRINT INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $26,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHudson Institute Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetK9 OFFICERS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrothers for Life: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS-HOUSTON: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND: $18,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHAPPY LUNGS PROJECT: $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTexas Heart Institute: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJulie Rogers Gift of Life Program: $11,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAlbert Schweitzer Fellowship Houston-Galveston: $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetRobert M Beren Academy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Symphony Endowment: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHope and Healing Center & Institute: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHATIKVAH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MENNINGER CLINIC FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Zoo Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston: $6,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFotofest Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $5,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN OF GREATER HOUSTON: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLEO BAECK EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Parks Board: $5,000 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…Houston Jewish Commun…Albert & Ethel Herzst…The Brown Foundation …MD Anderson FoundationVivian L Smith Founda…Shell USA Company Fou…Mechia FoundationHouston Endowment IncStrake FoundationThe Brodsky FoundationMarek Family Foundati…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX55.5× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Houston Jewish Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · MD Anderson Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Mechia Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Strake Foundation · The Brodsky Foundation · Marek Family 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 Stanford & Joan Alexander Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stanford & Joan Alexander Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Stanford & Joan Alexander 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 167 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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