· Private foundation
The Stanton 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $509k
- $250k+5 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Catholic Endowment Foundation | $800,000 |
| St Thomas High School | $401,677 |
| Strake Jesuit College Preparatory | $401,673 |
| St Agnes Academy | $400,231 |
| Rice University | $310,000 |
| Holy Family Catholic Church | $150,000 |
| Episcopal High School | $100,000 |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital | $90,000 |
| River Oaks Baptist School | $60,000 |
| St Michael Catholic Church | $59,000 |
| Holy Family Church | $50,000 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital Foundation | $40,000 |
| St Agnes Academy | $30,000 |
| Cristo Rey Jesuit High School | $30,000 |
| Strake Jesuit College Preparatory | $30,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 83% of The Stanton Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 96% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +2% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 14 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, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M 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
- WMWilliam Marsh Rice University3× · 2023–2025 · $517k · revenue +45%
- BIBeth Israel Deaconess Hospital3× · 2023–2025 · $150k
- EHEPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL2× · 2024–2025 · $110k
Funded once
- SMST MARTINS EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $50k
- SJSt John The Evangelist Churchone grant, 2021 · $20k
- GCGarden Club of Houstongraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +81%
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.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
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,…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of the american health law association is to deliver authoritative educational content and serve as a professional home for all who engage with health law.
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 63 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 William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Post Oak Baseball Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Foundation for American Security and Freedom Inc ↗
- Who funds Garden Club of Houston ↗
- Who funds DUXBURY BEACH RESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds Little League Baseball Inc 3431607 Post Oak LL ↗
- Who funds NOVA UKRAINE ↗
- Who funds St Peter Catholic ↗
- Who funds Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Family Alliance ↗
- Who funds GEOHAZARDS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES TO LIFE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE DUXBURY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Hope and Healing Center & Institute ↗
- Who funds BUILD A MIRACLE ↗
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 · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · William S & Lora Jean Kilroy Foundation · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · Sterling-Turner Foundation · Strake Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greentree Fund · Hildebrand Foundation · MD Anderson 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 Stanton 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.
- Duxbury Beach Reservation Inc — 3% of income from government
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.