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University of Houston Foundation

University of Houston Foundation provides program support to University of Houston System for various scholarship and educational programs.

$11M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$4.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$36MHealth$22MFood & Nutrition$5.8MRecreation & Sports$4.6MArts & Culture$3.2MScience & Tech$1.5MCommunity Improvement$700kCrime & Legal$593kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $811k
  • $250k+6 grants · $9.8M
$105,652
Median grant
1
States reached
$226M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Houston$4,144,691
UH - System$2,701,068
UH - College of Global Hospitality Leadership$1,560,810
UH - Athletics$593,434
UH - College of the Arts$414,348
UH - Liberal Arts and Social Sciences$404,324
UH - Engineering$228,396
UH - Optometry$166,877
UH - Social Work$105,652
UH - Natural Sciences & Mathematics$92,358
UH - Business$77,236
UH - Houston Public Media$72,071
UH - Law$68,342
UH - Pharmacy$20,630
UH - Downtown$19,574
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%University of Houston: $4.1M → 16%University of Houston: $3.5M → 16%University of Houston: $3.2M → 16%University of Houston: $2.8M → 16%University of Houston: $2.8M → 16%UH - System: $2.7M → 16%University of Houston: $2.7M → 16%University of Houston: $2.5M → 16%University of Houston: $2.4M → 16%UH - System: $2.3M → 16%University of Houston: $2.2M → 16%UH-System: $1.7M → 16%UH-System: $1.7M → 16%UH-System: $1.7M → 16%UH - System: $1.7M → 16%UH - College of Global Hospitality Leadership: $1.6M → 16%UH - College of Global Hospitality Leadership: $1.6M → 16%UH - College of Global Hospitality Leadership: $1.6M → 16%UH - College of Medicine: $1.5M → 16%UH-College of Hotel and Restaurant Mgt: $1.4M → 16%UH-HotelRest Mg: $1.1M → 16%UH-System: $1.1M → 16%UH-College of Global Hospitality Leadership: $1.1M → 16%UH-HotelRest Mg: $1.1M → 16%UH-HotelRest Mg: $1.1M → 16%UH-HotelRest Mg: $1.0M → 16%UH-System: $980k → 16%UH-Houston Public Media: $712k → 16%UH-Athletics: $696k → 16%UH-College of the Arts: $688k → 16%UH - Athletics: $670k → 16%UH - Athletics: $661k → 16%UH - College of the Arts: $648k → 16%UH-System: $634k → 16%UH-Athletics: $617k → 16%UH - Athletics: $593k → 16%UH-College of the Arts: $579k → 16%UN - College of the Arts: $490k → 16%UH-Athletics: $457k → 16%UH-College of the Arts: $422k → 16%UH - College of the Arts: $414k → 16%UH - Liberal Arts and Social Sciences: $409k → 16%UH - Liberal Arts and Social Sciences: $404k → 16%UH-College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences: $403k → 16%UH-Houston Public Media: $401k → 16%UH-College of the Arts: $400k → 16%UH - College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences: $394k → 16%UH-College of the Arts: $386k → 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 field
04the grantee network

0 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. 0 of the 1 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
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Grew since first funded

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

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 1 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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