· Private foundation
William Scott Mace Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $243k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOODRIDGE BAPTIST CHURCH | $75,000 |
| CAMP REFUGE | $68,000 |
| WOODRIDGE BAPTIST CHURCH | $50,000 |
| LAZYBROOK BAPTIST CHURCH | $50,000 |
| EAST-WEST MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| EAST-WEST MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| COME BACK ALIVE INC | $15,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AS MISSION INC | $15,000 |
| PRYTULA FOUNDATION USA | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY PREGNANCY CENTER OF PASADENA | $5,000 |
| MISSION NORTHEAST INC | $5,000 |
| CHRIS CJ JOHNSON FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MISSION CENTERS OF HOUSTON | $5,000 |
| HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW & RODEO INC | $3,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED | $1,400 |
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 (FY18–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of William Scott Mace Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +145%- CRCAMP REFUGE5× · 2021–2025 · $103k · revenue +2%
- OONEGOAL7× · 2017–2023 · $61k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERone grant, 2024 · $25k
- AFABWE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $10k
- IMINTERNATIONAL MISSION BOARD OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTIONone grant, 2023 · $8k
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.
Mission: this organization is part of the methodist hospital, doing business as houston methodist hospital, whose mission is: to provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a…
As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
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,…
To provide essential and next-step services to restore hope and help end homelessness in houston.
As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.
Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
The los angeles mission breaks the cycle of homelessness and poverty, by stabilizing people in a safe and spiritual environment, connecting them to solutions and walking with them on their journey.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Loving Houston Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boots to Health Foundation 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 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 43 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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
- Who funds CAMP REFUGE ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds MISSION CENTERS OF HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds Mission Northeast Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Pregnancy Center of Pasadena ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust ↗
- Who funds PRYTULA FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds CHRIS CJ JOHNSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAY Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC ↗
- Who funds United Aid and Logistics Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BAYTOWN MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF ODESSA INC ↗
- Who funds Nehemiah Center Inc ↗
- Who funds International Business as Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds BOOTS TO HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MORRIS BROWN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LOVING HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Verizon Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Scott Mace Foundation 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
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.
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