· Private foundation
Three G Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $207k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $430k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE | $159,542 |
| PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH INC | $150,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $70,265 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| THE TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON | $25,000 |
| GEORGIA OKEEFFE MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| HOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH | $25,000 |
| THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA NFP | $10,000 |
| GLENWOOD CEMETERY HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of your 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 +11% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
Houston Museum of Natural Science3× · 2022–2024 · $400k · revenue +5%- TMTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +65%
- AFAMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- HHHISTORIC HOUSTONone grant, 2022 · $65k · revenue -33%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER HOUSTONone grant, 2022 · $25k
- PVPROJECT VERITASone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +158%
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 witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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…
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is United States Equestrian Team 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.
18 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. 18 of the 24 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 Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds Texas Heart Institute ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Independent Women's Forum ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD CEMETERY HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds KEVIN BABINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
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 · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Three G 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.