· Private foundation
The William a and Madeline Welder Smith Foundation Attn Kay Parker
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of THE WILLIAM A AND MADELINE WELDER SMITH FOUNDATION ATTN KAY PARKER’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $642k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $70,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $50,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $50,000 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| COUNCIL ON RECOVERY | $35,000 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| STRAKE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $26,985 |
| ST THOMAS HIGH SCHOOL | $26,000 |
| CANEY BAPTIST CHURCH | $25,000 |
| PATHWAYS FOR LITTLE FEET | $25,000 |
| FORT BEND CHILD ADVOCATES | $25,000 |
| AMAZING PLACE | $25,000 |
| ALLEY THEATRE | $25,000 |
| SEEDS OF HOPE | $25,000 |
| TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 75% 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.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 14 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $230k · revenue +15%
HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC5× · 2021–2025 · $175k · revenue +526%- UOUniversity of St Thomas5× · 2021–2025 · $165k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- BCBRISCOE CENTER FOR AMERICAN HISTORY - THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINone grant, 2021 · $50k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTERone grant, 2021 · $40k
- LCLAFAYETTE COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +28%
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.
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…
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…
To provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a spiritual environment of caring in association with internationally recognized teaching and research.
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 Hospice at the Texas Medical Center holds a freestanding 37 bed inpatient facility in the Texas Medical Center that is operated and managed by Houston Hospice.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
To advance the Kingdom of God with specific focus on human health and well-being, through grants, research and initiatives in support of the mission of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Methodist Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Alberto Esco Foundation Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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 70 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 BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Heart Institute ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds Phi Delta Theta Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Council on Recovery ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ALLEY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pathways for Little Feet ↗
- Who funds RETINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds The Blue Bird Circle ↗
- Who funds John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science ↗
- Who funds BAYOU LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD CEMETERY HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Nerys Promise ↗
- Who funds DOCFEST INC ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds Joy Development School ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF HOPE INC ↗
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: The Ralph H and Ruth J McCullough Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · MD Anderson Foundation · Sterling-Turner Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Elkins Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund
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 William a and Madeline Welder Smith Foundation Attn Kay Parker 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.
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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