· Private foundation
The Whalley 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $703k
- $50k–250k30 grants · $2.8M
- $250k+9 grants · $3.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $400,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $400,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $400,000 |
| KIDS MEALS | $400,000 |
| MARCH OF DIMES | $355,000 |
| TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $300,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE HOUSTON | $300,000 |
| BRIGHTER BITES | $275,000 |
| TEAM RUBICON | $250,000 |
| ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| MEMORIAL HERMANN FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| SPRING SPIRIT | $200,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $200,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $150,000 |
| STAR OF HOPE | $150,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $6.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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 +38% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
113 repeat relationships — 77 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 10 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $261k 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
The Houston Food Bank9× · 2017–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +107%- KMKIDS' MEALS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +579%
- TCTexas Children's Hospital9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +78%
Funded once
- IMInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houstongraduatedone grant, 2022 · $90k · revenue +65%
- TDTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -83%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +167%
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
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…
The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.
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.…
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,…
See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…
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…
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 create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Battle of Rhode Island Association. 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 35 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.
105 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. 105 of the 166 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 Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIARWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Memorial Hermann Foundation ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds The Kinkaid School Inc ↗
- Who funds Brighter Bites Inc ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE ALS ASSOCIATION-TEXAS CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds SpringSpirit Inc ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Houston Area Women's Center ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds Target Hunger Inc ↗
- Who funds Memorial Assistance Ministries ↗
- Who funds The Periwinkle Foundation ↗
- Who funds Small Steps Nurturing Center ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council ↗
- Who funds Camp For All Foundation ↗
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: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Houston Endowment Inc · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Powell Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust · The Medallion Foundation Inc · 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 Whalley 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.
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- Lynn University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% 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.