· Private foundation
Weir 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 $10k4 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE RISE SCHOOL | $17,000 |
| FOCUS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| BELOVED AND BEYOND | $1,600 |
| MEMORIAL VILLAGE POLICE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 4 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TRTHE RISE SCHOOL7× · 2017–2024 · $166k
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH2× · 2020–2021 · $160k
- YLYOUNG LIFE6× · 2017–2023 · $51k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- BBBELONG BAKERYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +545%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
- CUCONCORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +114%
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.
The Houston Parks Board Foundation provides the Houston Parks Board with financial assistance to support operations and park projects.
The Houston Bar Foundation supports programs that help provide legal representation to the indigent, promote community understanding of our legal system, and foster the administration of justice.
National Christian Foundation North Texas (NCFNT) was created to facilitate smarter Christian giving with sophisticated charitable techniques.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The Houston Parks Board mission is to expand, improve, and protect parks and greenspace in the Houston region.
Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
To provide financial support to St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Houston, TX.
Trinity Park Conservancy champions the transformation of the Trinity River to become the heart of Dallas. With the community, the Conservancy will design public spaces that unite us, enrich people's lives through access to nature, create…
American Leadership Forum (ALF) brings together, in classes, leaders with diverse perspectives so they can build relationships, learn to dialogue and respectfully differ, and work together for the good of our community.
Amazing Place empowers families facing the challenges of dementia and Alzheimer's and advances brain health for all. The Organization serves adults with mild cognitive impairment and mild to moderate dementia, caregiving families and…
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston's mission is to inspire and enable all youth, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 22 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 YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds BELONG BAKERY ↗
- Who funds CONCORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Buffalo Bayou Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds SANDAL GAP STUDIO ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area ↗
- Who funds Beloved and Beyond ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON COALITION FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston ↗
- Who funds LADIES AUXILIARY OF ARLINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds Memorial Villages Police Foundation ↗
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 · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Weir Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Weir Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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