· Private foundation
William Eand Natoma Pyle Harvey Charitable
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADORE MINISTRIES INC | $15,000 |
| HOUSTON THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $15,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE | $15,000 |
| FAMILY HOUSTON | $15,000 |
| HOUSTON GRAND OPERA ASSOCIATION INC | $15,000 |
| HOUSTON SYMPHONY SOCIETY | $14,000 |
| MAIN STREET THEATER HOUSTON | $10,800 |
| MAGNOLIA CITY BRASS BAND | $10,538 |
| CHILD ADVOCATES INC | $10,000 |
| HOUSTON BALLET FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ALLEY THEATRE | $10,000 |
| THE HAVEN | $10,000 |
| CANCARE INC | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
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 +47% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
- HSHouston Symphony Society4× · 2020–2024 · $52k · revenue +47%
- HGHouston Grand Opera Association Inc3× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +42%
CANCARE INC4× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- MTMILLER THEATRE ADVISORYone grant, 2023 · $21k
Camp For All Foundationone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -14%- HCHOUSTON CHAMBER CHOIRgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +135%
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.
The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.
Harmonia Stellarum is an ensemble of professional vocalists and instrumentalists specialized in historically informed performance practice who seek to inspire, entertain, and enlighten audiences with meaningful, historically informed…
See Schedule OHouston Arts Alliance (HAA) is a local arts and culture organization whose principal work is implementing the City of Houston's vision, values, and goals for its arts grantmaking and civic art investments. HAA conducts work…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…
See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…
Arts Connect Houston unites with the greater Houston community to ensure access to high-quality arts education in creative writing, dance, music, theater, and the visual arts for every student, beginning with Houston ISD.
CAMH presents extraordinary and thought-provoking arts programming and exhibitions.
Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…
The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…
Houston MediaSource aspires to be the community media center for the City of Houston. HMS provides public access to media platforms that promote citizen engagement, protect the right to free expression, and provide opportunities to advance…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston Ballet Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Adore Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 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. 28 of the 41 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 Houston Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds CANCARE INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Camp For All Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON CHAMBER CHOIR ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds WITHMERCI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Houston Ballet Foundation ↗
- Who funds Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County ↗
- Who funds Houston Area Women's Center ↗
- Who funds Adore Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
- Who funds Main Street Theater Houston ↗
- Who funds THE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds RAISEUP FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds REACH UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLSTART ↗
- Who funds Christ Clinic ↗
- Who funds River Oaks Chamber Orchestra ↗
- Who funds Houston Botanic Garden ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON ↗
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: Strake Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Elkins Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc · The Methodist Hospital · The William Stamps Farish Fund
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 William Eand Natoma Pyle Harvey Charitable 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.