· Private foundation
Winkelmann Charitable 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo | $13,000 |
| Kingsland Baptist Church | $10,000 |
| Pathway to Victory | $2,000 |
| Columbia Christian Senior Center | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,250 |
| Tunnels To Towers | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Meals On Wheels for Greater Houston | $1,000 |
| Houston First Baptist Church | $1,000 |
| Pregnency Help Center | $1,000 |
| Turning Point | $1,000 |
| MD Anderson Cancer Center | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $600 |
| Make A Wish | $500 |
| Wounded Warrior Project | $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 (FY21–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 16 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, 80% 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
HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC5× · 2021–2025 · $48k · revenue +526%- SHSAM HOUSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +159%
- OSOPERATION SMILE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $4k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- TCTexas Children's Hospital2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue +16%
- SBSECOND BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $1k
- KMKIDS' MEALS INC2× · 2024–2025 · $1k · revenue 0%
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 improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
To deliver the highest value patient experience through quality, safety, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness, enhanced by medical education and research in collaboration with Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).
To provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a spiritual environment of caring in association with internationally recognized teaching and research.
Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…
The mission of Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas is to perform sacred work by uniting kindness, quality, and healing through the provision of health care services to the community.
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…
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
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 spiritual…
The mission of lifegift is to provide community benefit by ethically, effectively and efficiently recovering appropriately transplantable organs and tissue to give the gift of life. lifegift also provides public and professional education…
The primary mission or purpose of methodist health system is to serve people in defined service areas by meeting their health needs effectively and in a manner that reflects a "commitment to the christian concepts of life and learning" as…
How this is measured
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 92 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 HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC ↗
- Who funds SAM HOUSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Katy Christian Ministries ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds KIDZ1STFUND INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds A Child's Hope International ↗
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 · Texas Instruments Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Winkelmann Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Winkelmann Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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