· Private foundation
The Weingarten Schnitzer Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
Anchored by a single position — about 92% of reported assets are held in Kimco Rlty Corp.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON | $55,000 |
| HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON | $23,000 |
| STAND UP TO CANCER | $6,000 |
| THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL | $2,500 |
| THE MENIL FOUNDATION INC | $1,500 |
| CHILDRENS DIABETES FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| MISSIONS OF YAHWEH INC | $1,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT H | $1,000 |
| CASITA MARIA INC | $1,000 |
| HOUSTON REVISION | $500 |
| ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC | $500 |
| WWP INC - WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC | $500 |
| HOUSTON PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION CHA | $500 |
| LEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH ENDOWMENT INC | $500 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $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 (FY17–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 5 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- TMTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON8× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +96%
- MHMemorial Hermann Foundation5× · 2019–2024 · $30k · revenue +179%
- TCTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL7× · 2019–2025 · $18k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- TITACA INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -12%
- BSBaylor Scott & White Healthone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +12%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTEone grant, 2023 · $6k
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.
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 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…
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,…
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,…
The mission of the Houston Academy of Medicine is to support the community service, education, scientific, and charitable programs for physicians, their patients, and the community at large in Harris County.
The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Hermann Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Justice for Children Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
113 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. 113 of the 142 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 MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Texas Heart Institute ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Memorial Hermann Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY ↗
- Who funds Menil Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds TACA INC ↗
- Who funds Baylor Scott & White Health ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF YAHWEH INC ↗
- Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds A SHELTER FOR CANCER FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds BE AN ANGEL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Contemporary Arts Museum Houston ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds Crime Stoppers of Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds The Brenda & John H Duncan Rise School of Houston ↗
- Who funds RIVER OAKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of Houston ↗
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 · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Mechia Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Strake Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Alkek and Williams Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund Inc
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 Weingarten Schnitzer Foundation Inc 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.
- The National Federation of the Blind — 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.
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