· Private foundation
Tom and Hetty Ball Private Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $82k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $35,500 |
| The Jimmy Graham Foundation Inc | $25,000 |
| EAA | $21,200 |
| TEXAS CHILDREN'S CANCER HEMATOLOGY | $9,000 |
| Bernick Charitable Foundation | $7,000 |
| Steamboat Adaptive Recreational Spo | $5,000 |
| BOB HOOVER ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| CAMP WAPIYAPI | $5,000 |
| BEAR BE A RESOURCE | $1,620 |
| CHILDRENS TRANSPLANT INITIATIVE | $1,500 |
| CHARGER PRIDE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIO | $1,000 |
| HOUSTON ZOO INC | $500 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 85% 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 +78% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- TCTexas Children's Hospital8× · 2017–2024 · $181k · revenue +78%
- BHBOB HOOVER ACADEMY6× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +384%
- CMCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC4× · 2019–2022 · $8k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
- S5STALLION 51 FLIGHT OPERATIONSone grant, 2021 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1k
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 create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…
The mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
The Foundation's mission is to provide ophthalmology services primarily to patients at Boston Children's Hospital and at satellite locations. The Foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the…
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.
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…
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sky High for Kids Inc and the most unlike its peers is Charger Pride Scholarship Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 25 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 Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds BOB HOOVER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE JIMMY GRAHAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Steamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS TRANSPLANT INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Charger Pride Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUE ANGELS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SKY HIGH FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds MASON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO 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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Tom and Hetty Ball Private Foundation Inc 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.