· Private foundation
The Trier Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP ALLEN | $12,850 |
| ST MARTINS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $9,240 |
| BARBARA BUSH LITERACY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| DENVER BOTANICAL GARDENS | $1,210 |
| ST LUKE'S HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| US PHYSICAL THERAPY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER | $1,000 |
| YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS | $700 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS | $500 |
| THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DENVER | $400 |
| HOUSTON ZOO | $295 |
| BE AN ANGEL FOUNDATION | $100 |
| NAPA VALLEY WINE TRAIL COALITION | $100 |
| SIGMA NU EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 8 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CACamp Allen Camp & Conference Center6× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +93%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc2× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +53%
Houston Zoo Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $1k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- SMST MARTINS EPISC CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $24k
- LULAMAR UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $5k
- BCBaylor College of Medicineone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +8%
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.
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.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
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…
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…
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
American Leadership Forum (ALF) brings together, in classes, leaders with diverse perspectives so they can build relationships, learn to dialogue and respectfully differ, and work together for the good of our community.
Hermann Park Conservancy is a citizens organization dedicated to the stewardship and improvement of Hermann Park - today and for generations to come.
South texas college of law houston provides a diverse body of students the opportunity to obtain an exceptional legal education, preparing graduates to serve their community and profession with distinction.
To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…
How this is measured
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 53 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Camp Allen Camp & Conference Center ↗
- Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
- Who funds US PHYSICAL THERAPY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Heritage Society ↗
- Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Community Service Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Hope and Healing Center & Institute ↗
- Who funds Special Pals Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST ↗
- Who funds St John's School ↗
- Who funds SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Buffalo Bayou Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds The John Cooper School ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Tellepsen Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Brown Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Trier Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Trier Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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