· Private foundation
The William Stamps Farish Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
- $10k–50k52 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k66 grants · $6.4M
- $250k+16 grants · $9.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEMORIAL HERMANN FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY - MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIRE SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION INC | $1,000,000 |
| METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $750,000 |
| TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INC | $500,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR FIGHTING BLINDNESS | $500,000 |
| THE BROTHERHOODSISTER SOL INC | $450,000 |
| COUNCIL ON RECOVERY | $445,000 |
| W OSCAR NEUHAUS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $400,000 |
| PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL OF VIRGINIA | $400,000 |
| ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES | $360,000 |
| YMCA OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA | $300,000 |
| AUCILLA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $300,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $13.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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 9% of The William Stamps Farish Fund’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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
206 repeat relationships — 112 still active in FY2025, 94 since wound down; 19 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
- TMTAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INC8× · 2017–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +682%
- MHMemorial Hermann Foundation6× · 2017–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +158%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +76% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER HOUSTONone grant, 2017 · $1.0M
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -32%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINA RECTORS AND VISITORSone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
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.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
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.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
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…
See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.
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 mission of Collaborative for Children is to meaningfully improve the quality of early childhood education and care for Greater Houston's children through those most influential in their lives.
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 Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
Our mission is to provide high quality and caring services to promote healthy people and communities.
As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Community information now (cinow) provides data, tools, analysis, and training to inform decisions to improve texas communities. cinow's vision is improved lives and decreased disparities through democratized data.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans and the most unlike its peers is Red Hook Art Project 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 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
279 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. 279 of the 353 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Memorial Hermann Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CRISIS CENTER OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds AUCILLA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds TALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds CORBETT PREPARATORY SCHOOL OF IDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area ↗
- Who funds THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds The W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Agape Development Ministries ↗
- Who funds DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds TAPING FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Joy Development School ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JOSHUA HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Blue Bird Circle ↗
- Who funds PERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Council on Recovery ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS 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: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Strake Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Elkins Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Houston Endowment Inc · United Way of Greater Houston · MD Anderson Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Marek Family 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 Stamps Farish Fund 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 Spring of Tampa Bay Inc — 33% of income from government
- Champions for Children Inc — 14% of income from government
- Tall Timbers Research Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay Inc — 6% of income from government
- Tampa Jccfederation Inc — 3% of income from government
- South Kent School Corporation — 0% of income from government
- National Braille Press Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tampa Museum of Art 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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