· Private foundation
Van Wie 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER HOUSTON | $15,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $10,000 |
| TEAM THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE MISSI | $6,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $6,000 |
| MEMORIAL DRIVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| CAMP OZARK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FAITH IN PRACTICE | $5,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $5,000 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE MISSION SERVICES | $5,000 |
| GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| OPEN DOOR MISSION | $3,500 |
| CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY | $2,500 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 46% of Van Wie Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 54% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 65%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 5 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
The Houston Food Bank5× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +107%- MTMARTHA'S TABLE INC6× · 2017–2022 · $35k · revenue +41%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES4× · 2021–2024 · $31k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- YAYoung America's Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +44%
- AGAmerican Geosciences Instituteone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -11%
- MDMEMORIAL DRIVE METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $4k
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.
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.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
See Schedule OThe purpose of Awty International School (Awty) is to create an environment where students experience excellence every day to make their mark on the world alongside their community, in a spirit of curiosity, courage and…
Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…
To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.
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,…
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
See Disclosure Above.
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…
The mission of Houston Institute is to help the people of Rice University think deeply about the best way to live through the study of the liberal arts especially philosophy and literature. Our goal is to help students become better…
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.
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 57 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds CAMP OZARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN PRACTICE ↗
- Who funds AMISTAD MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MEXICO MEDICAL MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds INITIATIVE TO EDUCATE AFGHAN WOMEN ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PUSH THE ROCK ↗
- Who funds SIRE INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds Jerusalem Peacebuilders Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMISSION TO EVERY NATION ↗
- Who funds SPRING BRANCH-MEMORIAL SPORTS ASSOC ↗
- Who funds Hermann Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds American Geosciences Institute ↗
- Who funds Bo's Place ↗
- Who funds Open Door Mission ↗
- Who funds NUEVA VIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARBOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · United Way of the National Capital Area · American Endowment Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Texas Instruments Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Van Wie Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Van Wie Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Jerusalem Peacebuilders Inc: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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