· Private foundation
The William & Marie Wise 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 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 $10k11 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $152k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SIRE | $65,000 |
| ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER | $30,000 |
| THE ART BASE | $26,500 |
| FIGGIE ART MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| ST FRANCIS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| ST ANNE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY | $15,000 |
| HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATI | $10,000 |
| TEXAS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON | $2,280 |
| ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY | $2,000 |
| NEEMA INTERNATIONAL FUND | $1,500 |
| THE MENIL COLLECTION | $1,380 |
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 (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 12% of The William & Marie Wise Family 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, 70% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 72% — 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 +58% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 15 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- ARANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $242k · revenue +29%
- SISIRE INC7× · 2018–2025 · $241k · revenue +47%
- FAFIGGE ART MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $158k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- SHSIRE HOUSTON'S THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIPone grant, 2017 · $20k
- SAST ANNE CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $15k
- AFARTHRITIS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
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 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.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
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…
CAMH presents extraordinary and thought-provoking arts programming and exhibitions.
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…
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…
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,…
Houston cinema arts society (hcas) celebrates the vitality of houston by connecting audiences and artists with public, educational, and career-advancing film and arts programming. houston cinema arts society envisions a future where…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Figge Art Museum. 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 32 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 75 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 ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SIRE INC ↗
- Who funds FIGGE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Joy Development School ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Art Base ↗
- Who funds Texas Cultural Trust Council ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Hermann Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT ↗
- Who funds Hope and Healing Center & Institute ↗
- Who funds Stages ↗
- Who funds BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Houston Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds Texas Heart Institute ↗
- Who funds Men of Distinction of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · John P McGovern Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Alkek and Williams Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · Sterling-Turner Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · Mechia 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 William & Marie Wise Family 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.
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.