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Tilman and Paige Fertitta Family Foundation at a glance

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Tilman and Paige Fertitta Family 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.

$95k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Community Improvement$151kArts & Culture$100kEducation$51kHealth$25kAnimals$16kHuman Services$15kPublic Benefit$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $31k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOUSTON CHILDREN'S CHARITY$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON$31,085
SANTA FE TEXAS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$5,000
THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF GALVESTON$5,000
HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION$3,477
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CONVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $3k → 14%HEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION OF COLLEGE MINISTRY: $10k → 15%HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$261k · 3 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
10

Total granted

$261k
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+20%

Still filing today

67%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HC
    HOUSTON'S CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $151k · revenue +40%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
    2× · 2019–2020 · $90k
  • BB
    BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • WC
    WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $16k · revenue +26%
  • MARCH OF DIMES INC
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -35%
  • BP
    Bo's Place
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -18%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
2
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…

Arts & Culture
3
John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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5
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities Greater Houston Inc

The mission of the ronald mcdonald house of houston, inc. is to offer a home away from home and to provide care, compassion, and hope to families with seriously ill children being treated in texas medical center member institutions.

Health
6
The Methodist Hospital

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.

Health
7
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

CAMH presents extraordinary and thought-provoking arts programming and exhibitions.

Arts & Culture
8
Houston Academy of Medicine

The mission of the Houston Academy of Medicine is to support the community service, education, scientific, and charitable programs for physicians, their patients, and the community at large in Harris County.

Education
9
Houston Geological Society Foundation
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10
The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center

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.

Human Services
11
Houston House Foundation

The primary purpose of the houston house foundation is to provide long-term financial support to the ronald mcdonald house charities greater houston, inc.

Health
12
Houston Freedmen's Town Conservancy Inc

To completely restore Houston Freedmen's Town as a heritage district that provides America with its only Freedmen's Town.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston's Charity for Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Covenant House California. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOUSTON'S CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC: $151,000 · Community ImprovementHOUSTON'S CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INCMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $90,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF FINE ARTSUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $31,085 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTONSALVATION ARMY WOMEN'S AUXILIARY: $5,000 · OtherSANTA FE TEXAS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $5,000 · OtherTHE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Other+1 more: $2,000 · OtherBARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyMARCH OF DIMES INC: $15,000 · HealthTHE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF GALVESTON: $5,000 · HealthWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $16,000 · AnimalsHEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF MINISTRY: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION: $3,477 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $2,500 · Human ServicesBo's Place: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Museum of Natural Science: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $250 · Arts & Culture
Community Improvement$151,000Other$138,085Philanthropy$20,000Health$20,000Animals$16,000Human Services$15,977Arts & Culture$12,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOUSTON'S CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC: $151,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBo's Place: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF MINISTRY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF GALVESTON: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION: $3,477 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Art Studio Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Shell USA Company Fou…Greater Houston Commu…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Shell USA Company FoundationTX14.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tilman and Paige Fertitta Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tilman and Paige Fertitta Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Tilman and Paige Fertitta Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Tilman and Paige Fertitta Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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