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THE BROWN FOUNDATION, INC.

ANNUAL REPORT

FOR FISCAL YEAR JULY 1, 2015 THROUGH

JUNE 30, 2016



HISTORY

The Brown Foundation, Inc. was founded in July, 1951 by

Herman and Margarett Root Brown and George R. and Alice Pratt

Brown. Since its inception it has awarded $1.54 billion in grants

through the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016. Of these funds,

approximately 80% were awarded within the State of Texas with

special emphasis on the City of Houston.

MISSION STATEMENT

The purpose of The Brown Foundation, Inc. is to distribute funds

for public charitable purposes, principally for support,

encouragement and assistance to education, the arts and community

service.


AREAS OF CURRENT INTEREST

The Brown Foundation’s current emphasis is in the field of public

education at the primary and secondary levels. The Foundation will

focus on supporting non-traditional and innovative approaches

which are designed to improve public education primarily within the

State of Texas.

The visual and performing arts remain a principal area of interest.

The Foundation also supports community service projects which

serve the needs of children and families.


2015 – 2016

Trustees

Andrew B. Abendshein

Nancy I. Abendshein

Holbrook F. Dorn

Isabel S. Lummis

William N. Mathis

W. Walter Negley

Christopher B. Sarofim

Louisa S. Sarofim

Herman L. Stude

Nancy D. Walker

Officers Nancy I. Abendshein Chairman

Herman L. Stude President

Louisa S. Sarofim Vice President/Secretary

Elisa S. Pye Assistant Secretary

William N. Mathis Treasurer

Andrew B. Abendshein Assistant Treasurer


2015 – 2016

Brown Family Fund Committee

Andrew B. Abendshein

Nancy I. Abendshein

Ralph B. Abendshein

Maconda O. Abinader

Alice P. Dorn

Fairfax N. Dorn

Holbrook F. Dorn

Isabel S. Lummis

Travis A. Mathis

William N. Mathis

Alexander S. McAllister

Alexa B. Negley

Caroline C. Negley

W. Walter Negley

George R. O’Connor

John H. O’Connor

Nancy L. O’Connor

Rebecca C. O’Connor

Ryan S. O’Connor

Thomas I. O’Connor

Elisa S. Pye

Roxana M. Richardson

Allison Sarofim

Christopher B. Sarofim

Herman L. Stude

Nancy D. Walker

SUMMARY OF GRANTS

SUMMARY OF GRANTS

GRANT CATEGORY/PERCENT FROM INCEPTION JULY 1, 1951 THROUGH

JUNE 30, 2016

Paid Through CATEGORY June 30, 2016 Percentage Arts and Humanities $ 515,061,152 33% Civic/Public Affairs $ 159,608,183 10% Education $ 539,145,310 35% Human Services $ 125,274,259 8% Medicine & Science $ 198,703,400 13% Other $ 4,687,892 1% Totals $ 1,542,480,196 100%

GRANT CATEGORY/PERCENT FROM JULY 1, 2015 THROUGH JUNE 30, 2016

Paid CATEGORY Fiscal Year 2016 Percentage Arts and Humanities $ 25,752,896 40% Civic/Public Affairs $ 9,588,199 15% Education $ 15,901,458 25% Human Services $ 7,966,394 13% Medicine & Science $ 4,625,549 7% Totals $ 63,834,496 100%

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

ARTS & HUMANITIES

1894, INC. $100,000 $100,000

Galveston, TX Emergency Structural Repairs

THE ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION $100,000 $100,000

Fredericksburg, TX Phase 3 of the Pacific Combat Zone Capital Campaign initiatives

ALAMO ENDOWMENT $12,500 $12,500

San Antonio, TX Matching gift-Support for Alamo Conservator's final phase of Multi Spectral Imaging in the Alamo Sacristy

ALAMO ENDOWMENT $7,000 $7,000

San Antonio, TX Master Plan to restore/redevelop the Alamo

ALLEY THEATRE $200,000 $200,000

Houston, TX 2015-2016 Season program support

AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME $12,500 $12,500

New York, NY Matching gift-Program support

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS, INC. $50,000 $50,000

New York, NY Exhibition development and General operating support

AMERICAN FESTIVAL FOR THE ARTS $30,000 $30,000

Houston, TX 2015-2016 Season

AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART $10,000 $10,000

Fort Worth, TX Gabriel Dawe commission and installation

APERIO $5,000 $5,000

Houston, TX General Operations

ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM $12,000 $12,000

Tucson, AZ Desert Museum's pollination hotspot research

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

ARTS & HUMANITIES

ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION $25,000 $25,000

Little Rock, AR "Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art"

ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION $5,000 $5,000

Little Rock, AR Interest Survey

ARS LYRICA HOUSTON $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX General operating support for the 2015/2016 season

ART COUNCIL, INC. $25,000 $25,000

Brooklyn, NY "Art & Dialogue"

ART LEAGUE OF HOUSTON $60,000 $60,000

Houston, TX General operating support ($10,000) and Capital support ($50,000)

ART NOW HOUSTON, INC. $350 $350

Houston, TX Matching gift-Operating support

ART PRODUCTION FUND, INC. $7,500 $7,500

New York, NY Matching gift-Prada Marfa


New York, NY Matching gift-Operating support


New York, NY "Seven Magic Mountains" by Ugo Rondione in Las Vegas, Nevada

ARTPACE, INC. $25,000 $25,000

San Antonio, TX Artpace Education

ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER $100,000 $100,000

Houston, TX Public programming support

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

ARTS & HUMANITIES

ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER $100 $100



Houston, TX Capital campaign


Houston, TX Matching gift-Program support

AURORA PICTURE SHOW $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX 2015/2016 Education Programs

BALLROOM CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION $50,000 $50,000

Marfa, TX "Äppärät" exhibition


Marfa, TX Operating support


Marfa, TX Matching gift-Operating support




Marfa, TX Matching gift-Operating suport





AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

ARTS & HUMANITIES

BATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION, INC. $20,000 $20,000

Houston, TX Overnight Education Program Expansion

BLUE LAPIS LIGHT, INC. $25,000 $25,000

Austin, TX 2015-2016 Season


Austin, TX Blue Lapis Light Studio


Austin, TX Matching gift-Program support

THE BOOK ARTS PRESS, INC. $3,250 $3,250

Charlottesville, VA Matching gift-Annual Fund/Lecture sponsorships

BYRD HOFFMAN WATER MILL FOUNDATION $50,000 $50,000

New York, NY 2016 reACT support

CANOPY CANOPY CANOPY, INC. $25,000 $25,000

New York, NY Magazine and Arts Education Initiative

CANOPY CANOPY CANOPY, INC. $5,000 $5,000

New York, NY Operating support

THE CATASTROPHIC THEATRE, INC. $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX General operating support

CENTER FOR CURATORIAL LEADERSHIP $25,000 $25,000

New York, NY Program general fund

CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ANCIENT TERRITORIES, INC. $10,000 $10,000

Austin, TX Publication of Pantanello Sanctuary

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

ARTS & HUMANITIES

CHAMBER MUSIC HOUSTON, INC. $16,000 $16,000

Houston, TX Performance fee for the April 2016 Emerson String Quartet Concert

CHILDREN'S MUSEUM, INC. $150 $150

Houston, TX Matchinig gift-Operating support

CHILDREN'S MUSEUM, INC. $40,000 $40,000

Houston, TX Institute for Family Learning

CHINATI FOUNDATION $100,000 $100,000





Marfa, TX Robert Irwin Project

CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL $1,500 $1,500


CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH $15,000 $15,000

San Antonio, TX Meeting Room, Veterans' Chapel and Staff Room

CLASSICAL THEATRE COMPANY $2,500 $2,500

Houston, TX Rental costs

CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM HOUSTON $225,000 $225,000

Houston, TX Publications & Documentation Program



AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

ARTS & HUMANITIES

CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM HOUSTON $375 $375





Houston, TX Teen Council


Houston, TX "Perspectives" Exhibition series

CURRIER MUSEUM OF ART $10,000 $10,000

Manchester, NH Currier Art Center educational outreach

DA CAMERA SOCIETY OF TEXAS $22,000 $22,000

Houston, TX 2014-15 season, "Inventors and Explorers"

DA CAMERA SOCIETY OF TEXAS $150,000 $150,000

Houston, TX 2015-2016 Season Operating Support: "Snapshots: Time and Place"

DANCE OF ASIAN AMERICA $7,500 $7,500

Houston, TX Operating support for 2016 Programs

DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS, INC. $50,000 $50,000

New York, NY Robert Ryman at Dia:Chelsea

DIVERSEWORKS, INC. $60,000 $60,000

Houston, TX FY 2016 general operating and artistic programming

ENSEMBLE THEATER $25,000 $25,000


AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

ARTS & HUMANITIES

EXPRESS THEATRE $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX "The Emperor's New Clothes"

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST $10,000 $10,000

Boston, MA The Mother Church Endowment Fund

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST $5,500 $5,500

Boston, MA Matching gift-Mother Church Endowment Fund

FLOYD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY $10,000 $10,000

Charles City, IA Operating expenses

FOTOFEST, INC. $1,000 $1,000

Houston, TX Operating support

FOTOFEST, INC. $45,000 $45,000


FOTOFEST, INC. $10,000 $10,000


FOTOFEST, INC. $5,000 $5,000


FOUNDATION FOR ART AND PRESERVATION IN EMBASSIES $5,000 $5,000

Washington, DC Matching gift-Operating support

FOUNDATION FOR MODERN MUSIC, INC. $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX Modern Classical Music Outreach 2015

FOUNDATION FOR MODERN MUSIC, INC. $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX Modern Classical Music Concerts and Outreach, 2016-17

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

ARTS & HUMANITIES

FRACTURED ATLAS $5,000 $5,000

New York, NY "CAENIS" production

FRACTURED ATLAS $5,000 $5,000

New York, NY Exit Art's final catalogue - "Unfinished Memories: Thirty Years of Exit Art"

GALVESTON ARTS CENTER, INC. $25,000 $25,000

Galveston, TX General operating support

GALVESTON ARTS CENTER, INC. $50,000 $50,000

Galveston, TX Clint Willour Exhibition Fund

GALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION, INC. $25,000 $25,000

Galveston, TX "Heritage Preservation Challenge"

GEMINI SERIES, INC. $5,000 $5,000

San Antonio, TX Operating support

GEMINI SERIES, INC. $2,000 $2,000

San Antonio, TX Matching gift-Program support

GILBERT & SULLIVAN SOCIETY OF HOUSTON $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX 2016 production of "Princess Ida"

GLASSTIRE $25,000 $25,000


GLASSTIRE $5,000 $5,000


GORDON EDUCATION INITIATIVES FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS $100,000 $100,000

Houston, TX Take the Stage: A Performing Arts TV Show for Kids

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

ARTS & HUMANITIES

GREATER HOUSTON CHORUS $50 $50


GULF COAST - A JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND FINE ARTS $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX Two (2) issues of "Gulf Coast"; Support for "GC Online"; Operational funds for editorial staff; Administrative support in memory of Marion Barthelme

HERITAGE SOCIETY $50,000 $50,000

Houston, TX 2017 operating support

HITS THEATRE $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX General operations

HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX The Butterfly Project

HOPE STONE, INC. $5,000 $5,000

Houston, TX 2015-16 Mindful Arts Outreach and Performance Programming

HOUSTON ARTS ALLIANCE $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX Bayou Trails

HOUSTON ARTS AND MEDIA $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX Home Front: Texas in WWII

HOUSTON ASIAN AMERICAN FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION $5,000 $5,000

Houston, TX Lunar New Year Houston 2016

HOUSTON BALLET FOUNDATION $750,000 $750,000

Houston, TX Production Support for Premiere Works in 2016-2017: William Forsythe's "Artifact Suite", Jerome Robbin's "Other Dances", Jiri Kylian's "Stepping Stones", and Justin Peck's "Year of the Rabbit"; and the American Premiere of David Bintley's "The Tempest"

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

ARTS & HUMANITIES

HOUSTON BALLET FOUNDATION $15,000 $15,000

Houston, TX 2016-2017 artistic season

HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT $75,000 $75,000


HOUSTON CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY $30,000 $30,000


HOUSTON CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY $2,500 $2,500


HOUSTON CHAMBER CHOIR $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX "Just Gettin' Started" 20th anniversary concert with the Christian McBride Trio

HOUSTON CINEMA ARTS SOCIETY $15,000 $15,000


HOUSTON GRAND OPERA ASSOCIATION, INC. $50,000 $50,000

Houston, TX "Siegfried"


Houston, TX 2015-16 Season operating support


Houston, TX 2015-2016 operating support

HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL DANCE COALITION $15,000 $15,000

Houston, TX Dance Salad Festival 2016

HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX WorldFest Master/Class Seminars Series (Scholarship program)

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

ARTS & HUMANITIES

THE HOUSTON MUSEUM DISTRICT ASSOCIATION $15,000 $15,000

Houston, TX 2015 general operations and programming support

HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE $350,000 $350,000

Houston, TX Science Education Programming and Planetarium Renovation

HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION $250 $250


HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX HPM Education Fund

HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION $2,500 $2,500


HOUSTON SYMPHONY SOCIETY $100,000 $100,000

Houston, TX 2015-2016 Annual Fund


Houston, TX 2015-2016 season operating support and Vision 2025 Implementation Fund



HOUSTON YOUNG ARTIST'S CONCERTS $5,000 $5,000

Houston, TX 2015-2016 concert season

INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT, INC. $10,000 $10,000

Brooklyn, NY "T-Fred: The Last Frog Hunter"

INPRINT, INC. $100,000 $100,000

Houston, TX The 2016/17 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

ARTS & HUMANITIES

INPRINT, INC. $5,000 $5,000


JAMES DICK FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS $20,000 $20,000

Round Top, TX Re-roofing the Menke House

JAMES DICK FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS $50,000 $50,000

Round Top, TX 2016 Round Top Music Festival Scholarships

JOHN P. MCGOVERN MUSEUM OF HEALTH & MEDICAL SCIENCE $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX Educational programs

JUDD FOUNDATION $10,000 $10,000

New York, NY Public programming in Marfa, Texas

L.S.B. LEAKEY FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH TO MAN'S ORIGIN, BEHAVIOUR & SURVIVAL

$4,000 $4,000

San Francisco, CA November 2016 Houston Speaker Series and School Outreach

LAS CASAS FOUNDATION $20,000 $20,000

San Antonio, TX Performing Arts Scholarship Competition

LAS CASAS FOUNDATION $1,000 $1,000

San Antonio, TX Matching gift-Educational programming

LAWNDALE ART AND PERFORMANCE CENTER $50,000 $50,000


LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION $20,000 $20,000

Santa Fe, NM Lensic Presents Series and Community Sponsorship Program

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

ARTS & HUMANITIES

LIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD. $1,000 $1,000

Brooklyn, NY Matching gift-Programming

LOS COMPADRES DE SAN ANTONIO MISSIONS NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK

$5,000 $5,000

San Antonio, TX Masonry Apprentice Program

MAGIK CHILDREN THEATRE INC. THE MAGIK THEATRE $5,000 $5,000

San Antonio, TX Tickets to Literacy program

MAIN STREET THEATER AT AUTRY HOUSE $250,000

Houston, TX 2009-2010 operating support ($20,000) and Capital Campaign ($250,000) (contingent)

MAIN STREET THEATER AT AUTRY HOUSE $1,000 $1,000

Houston, TX Matching gift-Rebecca Greene Udden Technical Booth (Capital)

MAIN STREET THEATER AT AUTRY HOUSE $30,000 $30,000


MARFA PUBLIC RADIO CORPORATION $10,000 $10,000


MATCH: MIDTOWN ARTS & THEATER CENTER HOUSTON $150,000 $150,000

Houston, TX Capital campaign to fund the MATCH


Houston, TX MATCH Capital Campaign


Houston, TX The MATCH Capital Campaign

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

ARTS & HUMANITIES


Houston, TX The MATCH Capital Campaign

MCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER CORPORATION $7,500 $7,500

Concord, NH Educational exhibits program

MCNAY ART MUSEUM $5,000 $5,000



San Antonio, TX Matching gift-Operating support


San Antonio, TX 2016-2017 Exhibition Season ("French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850-1950") ($100,000) and Securing the Future of the McNay Major Gifts Campaign ($50,000)


San Antonio, TX Meet the Future Fund for Exhibitions and Education


San Antonio, TX Matching gift-Fund-A-Bus Program



MENIL FOUNDATION, INC. $37,500 $37,500

Houston, TX Matching gift-Drawing Institute (2-1)


Houston, TX Operating support ($25,000), "The Campaign for the Menil" ($100,000), Annual Fund ($5,000) and Trustee art acquisition in honor of Josef Helfenstein ($4,000)

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

ARTS & HUMANITIES


Houston, TX "The Campaign for the Menil"


Houston, TX Matching gift-Program support (2-1)

MENIL FOUNDATION, INC. $4,700,000 $4,700,000

Houston, TX "Campaign for the Menil" ($4,000,000) and General operating funds ($700,000)


Houston, TX Matching gift-Annual Fund


Houston, TX "The Campaign for the Menil" (Drawing Institute)


Houston, TX 2016 Annual Fund





THE MERCURY BAROQUE ENSEMBLE $5,000 $5,000


METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART $45,000 $45,000


METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART $60,000 $60,000


AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

ARTS & HUMANITIES

MEXIC-ARTE $10,000 $10,000

Austin, TX Matching gift-Operating support

MEXIC-ARTE $12,500 $12,500

Austin, TX Matching gift-Capital Campaign

MID-AMERICA ARTS ALLIANCE $50,000 $50,000

Kansas City, MO Texas Programming

MILDRED'S UMBRELLA THEATER COMPANY $2,500 $2,500

Houston, TX 2016-2017 theatre season

MILLER THEATRE ADVISORY BOARD, INC. $50,000 $50,000

Houston, TX 2015 "Miller Presents" Series

MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION $15,000 $15,000

Mount Vernon, VA Restoration of the West Parlor

MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION AND COUNSELING THROUGH THE ARTS

$30,000 $30,000

Houston, TX Sunburst Arts Camp

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON $5,000 $5,000

Houston, TX Acquisitions fund in honor of Anne Tucker (Anne Tucker Young Photographers Endowment)




Houston, TX Annual Fund

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

ARTS & HUMANITIES

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON $100 $100

Houston, TX Matching gift-Bayou Bend Annual Fund


Houston, TX Museum services and fellowship program at the Dora Maar House


Houston, TX Matching gift-Bayou Bend


Houston, TX Bayou Bend Annual Fund ($15,000), MFAH Annual Fund ($25,000)


Houston, TX Matching gift-Bayou Bend


Houston, TX Matching gift-ICAA Ideas Council

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON $5,922,500 $5,922,500

Houston, TX MFAH Campus Redevelopment Project ($5,000,000), General operating support ($900,000) and 41st Annual Ruth K. Shartle Symposium ($22,500)






Houston, TX Modern and Contemporary Art Department



AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

ARTS & HUMANITIES


Houston, TX Annual Fund (10,000) and Campus expansion project (25,000)


Houston, TX Glassell School of Art Annual Fund


Houston, TX Matching gift-Bayou Bend program support




Houston, TX Campus Redevelopment Project ($40,000) and Rienzi ($5,000)

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART $10,000 $10,000

New York, NY 2015-2016 Teen Programs

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART $25,000 $25,000

New York, NY Department of Film

MUSEUM OF PRINTING HISTORY $15,000 $15,000

Houston, TX General operating fund

MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN, INC. $1,000 $1,000

Aspen, CO Matching gift-Operating support

MUSIC IN CONTEXT $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX Concert underwriting


Houston, TX Concert expenses for the 2015-2016 Season

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

ARTS & HUMANITIES


Houston, TX 2015-2016 Concert underwriting

MUSICAL BRIDGES AROUND THE WORLD, INC. $5,000 $5,000

San Antonio, TX "Drums and Sax", Jazz concert at Southwest School of Art

MUSICAL BRIDGES AROUND THE WORLD, INC. $50,000 $50,000


MUSIQA $5,000 $5,000

Houston, TX Education Programs: "Around the World with Musiqa", "Musiqa ReMix" and Artist-In-Residence

MUSIQA $2,500 $2,500


NAMELESS SOUND $25,000 $25,000


NATIONAL WESTERN ART FOUNDATION $1,000 $1,000

San Antonio, TX Briscoe Western Art Museum

NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM, INC. $50,000 $50,000

New Orleans, LA Summer Teaching Institute

NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM, INC. $12,500 $12,500

New Orleans, LA Matching gift-Operating support

NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM, INC. $3,200,000 $3,200,000

New Orleans, LA "The Arsenal of Democracy; The Herman and George Brown Salute to the American Spirit"

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

ARTS & HUMANITIES

NEW LONDON HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC. $2,000 $2,000

New London, NH "Sundays in the Village" program

OFFSHORE RIG MUSEUM, INC. $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX Educational Outreach Programs

OLD STURBRIDGE, INC. $3,000 $3,000

Sturbridge, MA Educational and historic preservation programs

OPERA IN THE HEIGHTS $40,000 $40,000


ORANGE SHOW FOUNDATION $50,000 $50,000



Houston, TX Smither Park




Houston, TX Art Car Parade

PACIFICA FOUNDATION RADIO $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX KPFT's The Prison Show

PORT ARANSAS PRESERVATION AND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION $20,000 $20,000

Port Aransas, TX The Farley Boat Works' Texas Gulf Coast Schooner "Lydia Ann"

RIVER OAKS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX 2015-2016 Season operating support

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

ARTS & HUMANITIES

RIVER PIERCE FOUNDATIONSan Ygnacio, TX Historic district restoration, Phase I and Phase II (multi-2years)

ROBERT E. LEE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION $30,000 $30,000

Stratford, VA "Securing a Place for the Past" - Endowment

ROSENBERG LIBRARY ASSOCIATION $100,000 $100,000

Galveston, TX Phase VII

ROTHKO CHAPEL $45,000 $45,000

Houston, TX General operating support ($30,000) & Chiller Repair and Improvement ($15,000)

ROTHKO CHAPEL $10,000 $10,000


SAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM $5,000 $5,000


SAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM $1,000 $1,000


SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART $50,000 $50,000





San Antonio, TX Operating support in honor of Karen Johnson Hixon



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AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

ARTS & HUMANITIES


San Antonio, TX Contemporary Art Galleries Operations ($155,000) and Roof Replacement & Capital Upgrades on 4th Floor East ($245,000)



SAN FRANCISCO TRADITIONAL JAZZ FOUNDATION $44,000 $44,000

San Antonio, TX Media project

SAN JACINTO MUSEUM OF HISTORY ASSOCIATION $30,000 $30,000

La Porte, TX 2016 general operating support


La Porte, TX Matching gift-Program support


La Porte, TX Educational program support in honor of Bobbie and John Nau


La Porte, TX Matching gift-Program support

SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL, LTD. $75,000 $75,000

Santa Fe, NM Audience Challenge Campaign and Festival Commissioning Program

SECOND STAGE THEATRE, INC. $35,000 $35,000



New York, NY Helen Hayes Theatre


New York, NY Helen Hayes Theatre

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

ARTS & HUMANITIES

SHUMLA SCHOOL, INC. $25,000 $25,000

Comstock, TX Border Canyonlands Archaeological Project (BCAP)

SITE SANTA FE $125,000 $125,000

Santa Fe, NM Free Fridays and Saturday mornings

SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE, INC. $33,000 $33,000

New York, NY Fellowship Program

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION $125,000 $125,000

Washington, DC Renwick Gallery renovation

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION $22,500 $22,500

Washington, DC Matching gift-Renwick Gallery renovation

SOCIETY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS $20,000 $20,000

Houston, TX Education and Community Engagement Programming

SOUTHWEST ALTERNATE MEDIA PROJECTS, INC. $5,000 $5,000

Houston, TX "America's Changing Face"

SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART $10,000 $10,000

San Antonio, TX 2015-2016 operating support

SPACETAKER $15,000 $15,000


ST. CHRISTOPHER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH $5,000 $5,000

Bandera, TX Operating support in memory of Florida Marye Barnes

ST. JOHN THE DIVINE EPISCOPAL CHURCH $2,500 $2,500


AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

ARTS & HUMANITIES

ST. JOHN THE DIVINE EPISCOPAL CHURCH $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX Community Outreach

ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, AUSTIN, TEXAS $5,000 $5,000

Austin, TX Labyrinth Community Garden

ST. LUKE'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH $6,666 $6,666

Houston, TX Matching gift-Capital Campaign


Houston, TX 2016 "Boundless" Campaign

ST. LUKE'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH $600 $600


ST. MARTIN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH $4,100 $4,100

Houston, TX Matching gift-Building for Life ($4,000) and CCSC Back to School Program ($100)

ST. MARTIN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH $12,950 $12,950

Houston, TX Matching gifts-Operating support

ST. MARTIN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH $375 $375

Houston, TX Matching gift-Lord and Lady Carey Research Fund

STAGES, INC. $125,000 $125,000


SUL ROSS STATE UNIVERSITY FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR BIG BEND STUDIES

$150,000 $150,000

Alpine, TX Trans-Pecos Archaeological Program

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

ARTS & HUMANITIES


$40,000 $40,000



$25,000 $25,000


TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL $20,000 $20,000

Austin, TX Texas Book Festival

TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER ORCHESTRA $5,000 $5,000


THEATRE UNDER THE STARS, INC. $450,000 $450,000

Houston, TX Tommy Tune Awards; 49th Annual Free Show at Miller Outdoor Theatre; The River Performing Arts Center and Capital Campaign for "Where Dreams Take Center Stage"

TOM LEA INSTITUTE $50,000 $50,000

El Paso, TX Book to accompany the exhibition TOM LEA, LIFE and WWII at the National World War II Museum

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON $35,000 $35,000

Houston, TX Houston Shakespeare Festival

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN $5,000 $5,000

Austin, TX KUT Radio

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART $100,000 $100,000



New York, NY 2017 Whitney Biennial

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

ARTS & HUMANITIES





WITTE MUSEUM $40,000 $40,000

San Antonio, TX Brown Foundation Curator, South Texas Heritage Initiative

WITTE MUSEUM $5,000 $5,000


WORLD MONUMENTS FUND, INC. $85,000 $85,000

New York, NY Bulla Regia project in Tunisia


New York, NY Matching gift-Bulla Regia project (2-1)


New York, NY Forbidden City, Qianlong Garden Project

YOUNG AUDIENCES, INC. OF HOUSTON $30,000 $30,000

Houston, TX 2015-2016 programs

$25,502,896 $25,752,896Total ARTS & HUMANITIES

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

CIVIC/PUBLIC AFFAIRS

THE 100 CLUB, INC. $5,000 $5,000

Houston, TX Survivors Fund

THE 100 CLUB, INC. $2,000 $2,000

Houston, TX Matching gift-Survivors Fund (2-1)

THE 100 CLUB, INC. $100 $100


ABINGDON SQUARE ALLIANCE $2,500 $2,500


AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

$25,000 $25,000


AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST $10,000 $10,000

New London, NH To conserve Clayton Nowell property in Wilmot, NH

BARRIO DOGS, INC. $30,000 $30,000


BARRIO DOGS, INC. $1,000 $1,000

Houston, TX Youth and Paws program

BARRIO DOGS, INC. $5,000 $5,000

Houston, TX Fixit project

BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL, INC. $25,000 $25,000

Austin, TX Matching gift-Operating support

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE


BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL, INC. $15,000 $15,000

Austin, TX Educational programming supporting Central Texas and Bracken bats

BAYOU PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION, INC. $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX Ongoing Bayou Preservation Programs

BIG BEND PARKS AND RECREATION FOR KIDS $15,000 $15,000

Alpine, TX Toddler Track at Medina Park

BIG THICKET ASSOCIATION $45,000 $45,000

Saratoga, TX Thicket of Diversity Research and Analysis and Application for Younger Audiences

BIKEHOUSTON $15,000 $15,000

Houston, TX Adult Bicycle Safety Education ($5,000), Neighborhood to Trail Education ($5,000) and Houston Bike Plan Implementation ($5,000)

BRACKENRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY $4,000 $4,000


BUFFALO BAYOU PARTNERSHIP $570,000 $570,000

Houston, TX Transformation and Programming of Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern







AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE



Houston, TX Cistern art program


Houston, TX Cistern

BUSTER'S FRIENDS, INC. $4,000 $4,000

Fort Worth, TX Operating support

CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION, INC. $10,000 $10,000

Boston, MA Bahamas Reef Environment Educational Foundation (BREEF)

CENTER FOR ALCOHOL POLICY $15,000 $15,000

Alexandria, VA Series of state Alcohol Issue Forums

CENTER FOR HOUSTON'S FUTURE, INC. $50,000 $50,000


THE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO, INC. $25,000 $25,000

San Antonio, TX Children's Charities in Bexar County in honor of AnaPaula Watson

CHIHUAHUAN DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE $5,000 $5,000

Fort Davis, TX Educational programming

CITIZENS FOR ANIMAL PROTECTION, INC. $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX Shelter and Care Program

CITIZENS FOR ANIMAL PROTECTION, INC. $4,000 $4,000

Houston, TX Shelter and Care Program

CITY OF CAMMACK VILLAGE $25,000 $25,000

Cammack Village, AR Improvement Project II

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE


CRIME STOPPERS OF HOUSTON, INC. $100,000 $100,000

Houston, TX "We Are All Crime Stoppers Capital Campaign"

CRIME STOPPERS OF HOUSTON, INC. $500 $500


CULLINAN PARK CONSERVANCY $200,000 $200,000

Houston, TX Master Plan Phase 1 Construction/Capital Project

DISCOVERY GREEN CONSERVANCY $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX Programming support





DISCOVERY GREEN CONSERVANCY $50 $50



Houston, TX Programming support




Houston, TX Public Art

DUCKS UNLIMITED, INC. $5,000 $5,000

Memphis, TN Matching gift-Operating support

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE


DUCKS UNLIMITED, INC. $33 $33

Memphis, TN Matching gift-Program support

EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF WEST TEXAS $15,000 $15,000

San Antonio, TX Matching gift-Cathedral Park landscaping in honor of Charles Butt (2-1)

FOREVER FOUNDATION FOR TEXAS WILDLIFE, INC. $105,000 $105,000

San Antonio, TX Educational programs

FORT BEND JUNIOR SERVICE LEAGUE $175 $175

Sugar Land, TX Matching gifts-Operating support

FRIENDS OF BLUE HOLE $50,000 $50,000

Wimberley, TX Blue Hole Regional Park Development: Park Sustainability through Water Conservation, Creek Bank Restoration and Protection, and Native Landscape Restoration

FRIENDS OF CIBOLO WILDERNESS $50,000 $50,000

Boerne, TX Children's Programs

FRIENDS OF THE ARK, INC. $5,000 $5,000

Port Aransas, TX Rescue, rehabilitation and release of injured, ill or abused shore birds and sea turtles

FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE, INC. $150,000 $150,000

New York, NY High Line Art and Education

FRIENDS OF THE NORTHERN RAIL TRAIL IN MERRIMACK COUNTY

$10,000 $10,000

Andover, NH Project support

FUND FOR THE WATER WORKS $500 $500

Philadelphia, PA Matching gift-Operating support

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE


FYIMS INCORPORATED $4,000 $4,000

Houston, TX Friends for Life Animal Shelter

GALVESTON BAY FOUNDATION $50,000 $50,000

Webster, TX Gordy Marsh Conservation Easement Acquisition

GALVESTON BAY FOUNDATION $100 $100

Webster, TX Matching gift-Operating support

THE GARDEN CLUB OF HOUSTON $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX 2015 Bulb and Plant Mart program support

THE GARDEN CLUB OF HOUSTON $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX 2016 Bulb and Plant Mart program support

GULF COAST BIRD OBSERVATORY, INC. $30,000 $30,000

Lake Jackson, TX General program support

HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL $5,000 $5,000

Little Rock, AR Matching gift-Gift Ark

HERMANN PARK CONSERVANCY $100,000 $100,000

Houston, TX 25th Anniversary Restoration of the Japanese Garden

HERMANN PARK CONSERVANCY $1,000 $1,000


HOUSTON ARBORETUM & NATURE CENTER $20,000 $20,000

Houston, TX Operating support ($15,000) and Adopt-A-School science education program ($5,000)

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE


HOUSTON ARBORETUM & NATURE CENTER $1,020,000 $1,020,000

Houston, TX Guided Field Experience ($20,000) and "Where the Wild Things Grow: Houston Arboretum and Nature Center" ($1,000,000)


Houston, TX Operating support in honor of Kim & Scott Martin and Stephanie & Mark Hamilton



HOUSTON AUDUBON SOCIETY $50,000 $50,000

Houston, TX Outreach and Education Programs and General Operations

HOUSTON BOTANIC GARDEN $500 $500


HOUSTON BOTANIC GARDEN $4,800 $4,800





Houston, TX Capital Campaign





AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE


HOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX General operating expenses

HOUSTON PARKS BOARD $100,000 $100,000

Houston, TX Bayou Greenways 2020 capital campaign



HOUSTON PARKS BOARD $250 $250


HOUSTON PARKS BOARD $500 $500



Houston, TX Matching gift-Program support (2-1)

HOUSTON PARKS BOARD $3,000,000 $3,000,000

Houston, TX "Bayou Greenways 2020"


Houston, TX Mecom Fountain Restoration project


Houston, TX Operating support ($50,000) and Bayou Greenways 2020 ($35,000)

HOUSTON PETS ALIVE $5,000 $5,000

Houston, TX Animal medical expenses

HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION $5,000 $5,000

Houston, TX 2016 Adopt-a-Horse program

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE






HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION $50 $50

Houston, TX Matching gift-Operting support


Houston, TX HPD Training Facility

HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

$5,000 $5,000

Houston, TX In memory of John William Elder

HOUSTON WILDERNESS, INC. $1,000 $1,000


HOUSTON WILDERNESS, INC. $25,000 $25,000


HOUSTON ZOO, INC. $141 $141


HOUSTON ZOO, INC. $250,000 $250,000

Houston, TX Brown Conservation Education Center

HOUSTON ZOO, INC. $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX Education, conservation and animal care

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE


HOUSTON ZOO, INC. $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX Wildlife Conservation Program

INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION, INC. $30,000 $30,000

Baraboo, WI Whooping Crane Conservation and Outreach in Coastal Texas

ISLAND INSTITUTE $2,500 $2,500

Rockland, ME Matching gift-Operating support

THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF HOUSTON, INC. $550 $550


K9 HERO PORTRAIT PROJECT $5,000 $5,000

Stillwater, PA Portrait of Charlotte

KATY PRAIRIE CONSERVANCY $150,000 $150,000

Houston, TX Indiangrass Preserve Restoration Project

LYFORD CAY FOUNDATION, INC. $10,000 $10,000


MAGNOLIA GARDEN CLUB $50,000 $50,000

Beaumont, TX The Wetlands Education Center at Cattail Marsh

MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST $2,500 $2,500

Topsham, ME Matching gift-2016 Annual Fund

MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY, INC. $1,500 $1,500


MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY, INC. $1,000,000 $1,000,000

Houston, TX Capital Improvements for the implementation of the Master Plan for Memorial Park

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE


MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY, INC. $7,500 $7,500

Houston, TX Implementation of the master plan in honor of Thomas Woltz

MERLIN TUTTLE'S BAT CONSERVATION, INC. $25,000 $25,000

Austin, TX Matching gift-Operating support (2-1)

MERLIN TUTTLE'S BAT CONSERVATION, INC. $20,000 $20,000

Austin, TX Educational outreach

NATIONAL 19TH AMENDMENT SOCIETY $10,000 $10,000

Waterloo, IA Endowment Fund

NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL $15,000 $15,000

Lander, WY Annual Fund ($10,000) and Scholarship student equipment costs ($5,000)

NATURE CONSERVANCY, INC. $150,000 $150,000

Austin, TX Love Creek Preserve

THE NATURE DISCOVERY CENTER, INC. $60,000 $60,000

Bellaire, TX "Gateway Project" Final Phase ($50,000) and Education program support ($10,000)

NOKOTA HORSE CONSERVANCY, INC. $5,000 $5,000

Linton, ND Operating and horse management expenses

NORTHERN JAGUAR PROJECT, INC. $5,000 $5,000

Tucson, AZ Operating support

ONE HUNDRED CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO $5,000 $5,000

San Antonio, TX Survivors Fund

ONE HUNDRED CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO $2,000 $2,000

San Antonio, TX Matching gift-Survivors Fund (2-1)

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE


OUTREACH FOR EARTH STEWARDSHIP $5,000 $5,000

Shelburne, VT Operating support

PEASE PARK CONSERVANCY $20,000 $20,000

Austin, TX Pease Park Revitalization, Phase One: Kingsbury Gateway

PECKERWOOD GARDENS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION, INC. $5,000 $5,000

Hempstead, TX Operating support

PECKERWOOD GARDENS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION, INC. $50,000 $50,000

Hempstead, TX Operating support

PEREGRINE FUND, INC. $30,000 $30,000

Boise, ID Aplomado Falcon Delisting Precursors Program

REEF BALL FOUNDATION, INC. $25,000 $25,000

Athens, GA Jerry Taylor and Nancy Bryant Foundation Matching Challenge Grant

RIVER OAKS GARDEN CLUB $1,000 $1,000

Houston, TX Matching gift-2016 Azalea Trail


Houston, TX Matching gift-2016 Azalea Trail


Houston, TX West Side Renovation of the Gardens at the Forum of Civics

ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION $5,000 $5,000

Sinton, TX Matching gift-Visitor's Museum renovations

SAN ANTONIO PARKS FOUNDATION $25,000 $25,000

San Antonio, TX Operating support in honor of Mayor Lida Cockrell

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE


SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY $1,000 $1,000


SAV-A-PET, INC. $5,000 $5,000

Bellaire, TX Matching gift-Operating support

SCENIC TEXAS, INC. $300,000 $300,000

Houston, TX Broadway/Hobby Corridor Redevelopment Project

SEA TURTLE, INC. $12,000 $12,000

South Padre Island, TX Matching gift-Sea Turtle Rehab and Display Tank

SOUTH MAIN CENTER ASSOCIATION $1,250 $1,250


SOUTH TEXANS' PROPERTY RIGHTS ASSOCIATION, INC. $50,000 $50,000

Falfurrias, TX Operating support

SPARK $50,000 $50,000

Houston, TX 2015-16 administrative costs and Houston Academy for International Studies SPARK Park

SPAY-NEUTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, INC. $50,000 $50,000

Houston, TX Empowering People & Pets

STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION, INC. $25,000 $25,000

Charleston, NH 2016 Houston Conservation Programs

TEXAS CAVALIERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION $5,000 $5,000


TEXAS CONSERVATION ALLIANCE $30,000 $30,000

Dallas, TX Saving Rivers and Forests Campaign

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE


TEXAS STATE AQUARIUM ASSOCIATION $50,000 $50,000

Corpus Christi, TX "Caribbean Journey" expansion project

TEXAS STATE AQUARIUM ASSOCIATION $250,000 $250,000

Corpus Christi, TX Caribbean Journey

TEXAS TRIBUNE, INC. $35,000 $35,000

Austin, TX General operating support

THETA CHARITY ANTIQUES SHOW $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX Program support

TREES FOR HOUSTON $50,000 $50,000

Houston, TX Tree planting and maintenance program

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA $5,000 $5,000

Philadelphia, PA The Penn Vet Shelter Canine Mammary Tumor Program

TURTLE CONSERVANCY $2,500 $2,500


TUSK USA, INC. $7,000 $7,000

New York, NY African Wildlife Conservation


Austin, TX Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center operating support


Austin, TX Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center operating support to acknowledge vital role of the pollinators


Austin, TX Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center operating support

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE


URBAN HARVEST, INC. $50,000 $50,000


URBAN HARVEST, INC. $5,000 $5,000


USEFUL WILD PLANTS OF TEXAS $25,000 $25,000

Austin, TX Matching gift-Feasibility study for Capital Campaign

WESTBURY COMPASSIONATE ANIMAL RESCUE EFFORTS $5,000 $5,000


WESTCAVE OUTDOOR DISCOVERY CENTER $35,000 $35,000

Austin, TX Westcave Education Program

WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY $15,000 $15,000

Bronx, NY Operating support

WILMOT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION $15,000 $15,000

Wilmot, NH Capital improvement program and Program support

WILMOT PUBLIC LIBRARY $55,000 $55,000

Wilmot, NH Expansion of library

$9,588,199 $9,588,199Total CIVIC/PUBLIC AFFAIRS

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

EDUCATION

ACCESS GROUP, INC. $5,000 $5,000

Little Rock, AR Matching gift-Program support

ACCESS GROUP, INC. $100,000 $100,000

Little Rock, AR Gardens Expansion


Little Rock, AR Playground improvements to infant/toddler play space


Little Rock, AR Matching gift-Allie Snowden Endowed Scholarship


Little Rock, AR Matching gift-Operating support




Little Rock, AR Matching gift-Operating support (2-1)



ALDINE EDUCATION FOUNDATION $150,000 $150,000

Houston, TX Aldine ISD's INVEST: An Outcome Base Model

ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION $12,000 $12,000

Deerfield, MA 2016 Annual Fund

ANN RICHARDS SCHOOL FOUNDATION $2,500 $2,500

Austin, TX Matching gift-Strategic Planning project

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

EDUCATION

ANNUNCIATION ORTHODOX SCHOOL $500,000 $500,000

Houston, TX "Carry the Torch" Campaign

ANNUNCIATION ORTHODOX SCHOOL $2,000 $2,000

Houston, TX AOS Fund

AUSTIN WALDORF SCHOOL $5,000 $5,000

Austin, TX Student support program

BAHAMAS EDUCATION CULTURE AND SCIENCE FOUNDATION, INC.

$3,500 $3,500

Punta Gorda, FL Charitable Arts Foundation

BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY, INC. $5,000 $5,000

Tallahassee, FL Matching gift-Operating support

BARD COLLEGE $5,000 $5,000

New York, NY Matching gift-Bard Graduate Center Scholarship Fund

THE BRENDA AND JOHN H. DUNCAN RISE SCHOOL OF HOUSTON $50,000 $50,000


BROOKINGS INSTITUTION $250,000 $250,000

Washington, DC The Brown Center Report on American Education

CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM, INC. $5,000 $5,000

New York, NY Program support

CASADY SCHOOL $1,500 $1,500

Oklahoma City, OK Matching gift-Annual Fund

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

EDUCATION

CASCIA HALL $5,000 $5,000

Tulsa, OK Operating support

CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL $18,000 $18,000

Little Rock, AR Classroom technology upgrades

CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION, INC. $1,000 $1,000

Little Rock, AR Matching gift-Winston Penn Wardlaw Scholarship Fund

CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX Program support

CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR SELF-ESTEEM, INC. $34,000 $34,000

Houston, TX The Aldine-Spring ISD Middle School Dropout Prevention Project

CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND $75,000 $75,000

Bellaire, TX Freedom Schools program and Youth Development programming

CHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL $125,000 $125,000

Highlands, TX Operating support


Highlands, TX Matching gift-Capital Campaign ($33,000) and Program support ($14,000)


Highlands, TX Annual Fund ($25,000) and Capital Campaign ($64,000)

CHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL $250 $250

Highlands, TX Matching gift-Program support


Highlands, TX Matching gift-Capital Campaign

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

EDUCATION

CITIZEN SCHOOLS, INC. $75,000 $75,000

Houston, TX Generating Moments of Discovery for Houston Middle School Students

COLLABORATIVE FOR CHILDREN $250,000 $250,000


COLLABORATIVE FOR CHILDREN $4,000 $4,000


COLLEGE OF WOOSTER $5,000 $5,000

Wooster, OH The Wooster Fund

COMP-U-DOPT, INC. $50,000 $50,000

Houston, TX Computer Adoption Program, Learn to Earn Program and After School Program

CONNECTICUT COLLEGE $12,500 $12,500

New London, CT Matching gift-Internships-Connecticut College Fund

CORNELL UNIVERSITY $2,000 $2,000

Ithaca, NY Matching gift-Operating support

DAVIDSON COLLEGE $250,000 $250,000

Davidson, NC New Academic Building (E. Craig Wall, Jr. Academic Center)


Davidson, NC Matching gift-Annual Fund


Davidson, NC Annual Fund ($10,000) and Clark Ross Fund ($30,000)

EASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON, INC. $5,000 $5,000

Bellaire, TX The Caroline School in memory of Caroline DeLuca

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

EDUCATION

THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF HARRIS COUNTY $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX The All Earth Ecobot Challenge

THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF HARRIS COUNTY $5,000 $5,000

Houston, TX EcoBot Pro-Camp Robotics Training

EDUCATION PIONEERS, INC. $20,000 $20,000

Houston, TX Launch of expanded EP Fellowship in Houston and Texas

EMERGE FELLOWSHIP $20,000 $20,000

Houston, TX EMERGE Program Expansion general operating funds

ENDICOTT COLLEGE $100,000 $100,000

Beverly, MA Business/Life Sciences Facility Capital Campaign

ENDICOTT COLLEGE $50,000 $50,000

Beverly, MA Writing Center

EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL $500,000 $500,000

Bellaire, TX "Lead the Way: A Capital Campaign for Episcopal High School"

EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL $5,000 $5,000

Bellaire, TX Annual fund

EXODUS SCHOOL $15,078 $15,078

New York, NY Matching gift-The East Harlem School

FAMILIES EMPOWERED $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX "Infrastructure Investments to Serve More Families and Increase Earned Revenue"

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NURSERY SCHOOL $25,000 $25,000


AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

EDUCATION

FORMAN SCHOOLS, INC. $50,000 $50,000

Litchfield, CT Capital projects

FREDERICKSBURG EDUCATION INITIATIVE, INC. $25,000 $25,000

Fredericksburg, TX SystemsGo Program Evaluation-Phase II

FRIENDS OF PARADIS DES INDIENS, INC. $5,000 $5,000

Pompano Beach, FL Matching gift-Operating support (2-1)

FRIENDS OF WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL (WHS) FOUNDATION, INC. $150 $150

Houston, TX Matching gift-Scholarship Fund in memory of Rita Woodward

FUELED SCHOOLS, INC. $50,000 $50,000

Houston, TX Fueling Houston Schools

FUELED SCHOOLS, INC. $2,500 $2,500

Houston, TX Fueling Houston Schools

GENESYS WORKS HOUSTON $50,000 $50,000


GEORGE W. BUSH FOUNDATION $50,000 $50,000

Dallas, TX Middle School Matters

GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY $1,000 $1,000

San Francisco, CA School of Law Annual Fund

GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL $75,000 $75,000


GUADALUPE REGIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOL $6,000 $6,000

Brownsville, TX Scholarship Assistance Program

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

EDUCATION

THE HARRIS SCHOOL, INC. $30,000 $30,000

Houston, TX Capital improvements project

HEALTHCODE $25,000 $25,000

Austin, TX Program support (Cyberways and Waterways)

HOUSTON A+ CHALLENGE $750,000 $750,000

Houston, TX 2016-2017 operating support

HOUSTON A+ CHALLENGE $3,000 $3,000


HOUSTON ACHIEVEMENT PLACE $5,000 $5,000

Houston, TX Project CLASS

HOUSTON ACHIEVEMENT PLACE $30,000 $30,000

Houston, TX Project CLASS (Children Learning Appropriate Social Skills)

HOUSTON CENTER FOR LITERACY $100,000 $100,000


HOUSTON CENTER FOR LITERACY $100 $100


HOUSTON CENTER FOR LITERACY $1,860 $1,860


HOUSTON CENTER FOR LITERACY $900 $900


HOUSTON HISPANIC FORUM $5,000 $5,000

Houston, TX Career and Education Day

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

EDUCATION

INCARNATE WORD ACADEMY $5,000 $5,000

Houston, TX Tuition support

INCARNATE WORD ACADEMY $250,000 $250,000

Houston, TX I AM IN. Capital Campaign

JOY DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX Financial Aid Fund

KEYSTONE SCHOOL $25,000 $25,000

San Antonio, TX Economic Inclusiveness Financial Aid Fund

KINKAID SCHOOL, INC. $390,000 $390,000

Houston, TX "Building Together" Capital Campaign









KIPP, INC. $1,850 $1,850


KIPP, INC. $1,800 $1,800


AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

EDUCATION

KIPP, INC. $1,320,000 $1,320,000

Houston, TX KIPPing Point Growth Campaign

KIPP, INC. $5,000 $5,000


KIPP, INC. $2,500 $2,500


L.S.U. FOUNDATION $100 $100

Baton Rouge, LA Matching gift-Brenda Miller Memorial Fund

L.S.U. FOUNDATION $4,000 $4,000

Baton Rouge, LA Matching gift-Howard and Margaret Patton Endowed Scholarship

THE LEARNING CENTER OF NORTH TEXAS, INC. $30,000 $30,000

Fort Worth, TX Brain-based Training Program for Educators, Parents and Students

THE LEARNING PLANET, INC. $5,000 $5,000

Houston, TX "Rima, Fuego and the Children"

LESLEY UNIVERSITY $5,000 $5,000

Boston, MA MFA Photography Program for Visiting Artists (account #2-1447)

LYFORD CAY SCHOOL FOUNDATION $15,000 $15,000

Princeton, NJ Lower School Capital Project ($10,000) and General operating expenses ($5,000)

MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE $15,000 $15,000

New York, NY Annual Fund

MONTESSORI FOR ALL, INC. $25,000 $25,000

Austin, TX Codifying and Sharing the Montessori For All Model

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

EDUCATION

MONTESSORI FOR ALL, INC. $11,000 $11,000

Austin, TX Codifying and Sharing the Montessori For All Model

NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE $40,000 $40,000

Henniker, NH To commission a piece of artwork by Boston area artist Mark Davis ($5,000), artwork for the John Lyons Center ($10,000) and FY16 Annual Fund ($25,000)


Henniker, NH Opportunity Fund ($7,500) and Ceramic Studio ($2,500)


Henniker, NH Matching gift-Opportunity Fund ($12,500) and Ceramic Studio ($5,000)

NEW ENGLAND LEAGUE OF MIDDLE SCHOOLS $10,000 $10,000

North Andover, MA 35th Annual Middle Level Conference

NEWSPRING $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX Passport to the World

NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL $10,000 $10,000

Mount Hermon, MA Brown Foundation Endowed Scholarship Fund

OPENED BIBLE ACADEMY $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX New Student Information Center

PARISH CHILDREN'S SCHOOL $120 $120


PARISH CHILDREN'S SCHOOL $30,000 $30,000

Houston, TX Financial Assistance Fund

PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX Playworks Texas

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

EDUCATION

THE POSSE FOUNDATION $100,000 $100,000

Houston, TX The Posse Foundation Houston

POST OAK SCHOOL $180,000 $180,000

Bellaire, TX Big Work 2.0 Capital Campaign

PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL $500,000 $500,000

Houston, TX "Make Room for the Future-Presbyterian School Capital Campaign"

PROCTOR ACADEMY $12,000 $12,000

Andover, NH Learning Skills Fund ($7,000) and Operating support ($5,000)


Andover, NH Learning Skills Program


Andover, NH Financial Aid Program


Andover, NH "The Campaign for Proctor: The Time is Now"


Andover, NH Matching gift-Capital Campaign


Andover, NH Head's Discretionary Fund


Andover, NH Matching gift-The Proctor Fund

PROJECT GRAD HOUSTON $250,000 $250,000

Houston, TX College Access and Success Program and Cafe College Houston

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

EDUCATION

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA $25,000 $25,000

Alexandria, VA Tribute Campaign in honor of F. Robertson Hershey

REASONING MIND, INC. $250,000 $250,000

Houston, TX Online Mathematics Initiative

RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION $25,000 $25,000

New York, NY Relay Houston Master of Arts in Teaching Program and Expansion Projects

ROLLINS COLLEGE $10,000 $10,000

Winter Park, FL Wellness Center

SAINT MARY'S HALL, INC. $1,000 $1,000

San Antonio, TX Matching gift-SMH Fund

SAINT MARY'S HALL, INC. $1,000 $1,000

San Antonio, TX SMH Fund

SAN ANTONIO ACADEMY OF TEXAS $5,000 $5,000

San Antonio, TX General expenses

SAN ANTONIO ACADEMY OF TEXAS $10,000 $10,000

San Antonio, TX General expenses

SCANLAN OAKS ELEMENTARY PTO $200 $200

Missouri City, TX Matching gift-Super Express Week


Missouri City, TX Matching gift-Super Express Week


Missouri City, TX Matching gift-Boosterthon

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

EDUCATION

SOUTHWEST TEXAS JUNIOR COLLEGE $10,000 $10,000

Uvalde, TX GeoFORCE Summer Math Academy

SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY $10,000 $10,000

Georgetown, TX Faculty Development and Research


Georgetown, TX Think, Create, Connect: The Transformation of Academic Life at Southwestern University


Georgetown, TX Southwestern Fund


Georgetown, TX The Southwestern Fund

ST. AGNES ACADEMY $15,000 $15,000

Houston, TX Student scholarships

ST. AGNES ACADEMY $250,000 $250,000

Houston, TX Student Life Center Campaign

ST. ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL, INC. $100,000 $100,000

Austin, TX Kindergarten Center

ST. CATHERINE'S MONTESSORI $125,000 $125,000

Houston, TX Capital Campaign, "Building on the Legacy"

ST. FRANCIS EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL $500,000 $500,000

Houston, TX St. Francis Upper School, Phase I campaign

ST. GEORGE'S SCHOOL $12,500 $12,500

Newport, RI Matching gift-Annual Fund

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

EDUCATION

ST. GEORGE'S SCHOOL $50,000 $50,000

Newport, RI 2015-2016 St. George's Fund

ST. JOHN'S SCHOOL $30,000 $30,000


ST. JOHN'S SCHOOL $7,500 $7,500

Houston, TX Matching gift-"Opportunities of a Lifetime"-Great Hall & Taub Land

ST. JOHN'S SCHOOL $25,000 $25,000


ST. JOHN'S SCHOOL $20,000 $20,000


ST. JOHN'S SCHOOL $100,000 $100,000

Houston, TX "Opportunity of a Lifetime" Campaign


Houston, TX Matching gift-Breakthrough Houston

ST. JOHN'S SCHOOL $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX Breakthrough Houston general operating support

ST. JOHN'S SCHOOL $2,000,000 $2,000,000

Houston, TX "Opportunity of a Lifetime Campaign"

ST. JOHN'S SCHOOL $25,000 $25,000


ST. JOHN'S SCHOOL $50,000 $50,000


AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

EDUCATION

ST. JOHN'S SCHOOL $50,000 $50,000

Houston, TX Opportunity of a Lifetime Campaign



ST. JOHN'S SCHOOL $100,000 $100,000

Houston, TX Capital Campaign ($50,000) and 2015-2016 Annual Fund ($50,000)



ST. MARK'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF HOUSTON, INC. $50,000 $50,000

Houston, TX More. The St. Mark's Episcopal School Campaign for Growth

ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL $20,000 $20,000

Concord, NH 2016 Alumni Fund

ST. STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL HOUSTON $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX The Da Vinci Lab for Creative Arts and Sciences

STARS SCHOLARSHIP FUND $10,000 $10,000

McAllen, TX 2016/2017 Scholarship Cycle

STRAKE JESUIT COLLEGE PREPARATORY, INC. $10,000 $10,000


SUL ROSS STATE UNIVERSITY $10,000 $10,000

Alpine, TX Summer Theatre Program

TALKING BACK LIVING HISTORY $40,000 $40,000

Houston, TX Performing and Visual Arts Workshop

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

EDUCATION

TEACH FOR AMERICA, INC. HOUSTON $650,000 $650,000

Houston, TX Houston program support

TEACH FOR AMERICA, INC. HOUSTON $500 $500



Houston, TX Recruitment, training and support of teachers


Houston, TX Sponsor A Teacher Campaign

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-KINGSVILLE $5,000 $5,000

Kingsville, TX Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute operating support

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-KINGSVILLE $12,500 $12,500

Kingsville, TX Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute Ocelot Research and Repopulation Project

TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION $50,000 $50,000

Houston, TX Photography Collection-Digitization Project

TRINITY UNIVERSITY $10,000 $10,000

San Antonio, TX Annual Fund

TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK

$10,000 $10,000

New York, NY Columbia Business Fund

TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY $10,000 $10,000

Deerfield, MA Matching gift-Annual Fund (2-1)

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

EDUCATION

TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY $10,000 $10,000

Deerfield, MA Annual Fund

TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE $10,000 $10,000

South Hadley, MA Lynk program

TUCSON WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, INC. $5,000 $5,000

Tucson, AZ Operating support

UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND, INC. $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX "Last Dollar" Scholarships

UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND, INC. $250 $250


UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX St. Thomas Fund, UST's annual scholarship program

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO $5,000 $5,000

San Antonio, TX College of Architecture in memory of James F. Williams AIA


San Antonio, TX College of Architecture in memory of James F. Williams AIA


San Antonio, TX College of Sciences

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION $2,000 $2,000

Austin, TX Chancellor's Discretionary Fund

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

EDUCATION

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON

$500,000 $500,000

Houston, TX Preventing Reading Difficulties in the Houston Area and Beyond - Phase 3 and Trauma & Bereavement Screening for Schools

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY FOUNDATION $10,000 $10,000

Edinburg, TX Distinguished Performers Series at the Performing Arts Complex

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA $31,250 $31,250

Charlottesville, VA Matching gift-Endowed Fund for Faculty Excellence in Arts and Sciences

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA $25,000 $25,000

Charlottesville, VA Rotunda Restoration

UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION $2,000 $2,000

Laramie, WY Matching gift-Dr. Herbert G. Fisser Graduate Fellowship

VH1 SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION $30,000 $30,000

New York, NY Houston Early Music Education Fund

W. OSCAR NEUHAUS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION $200,000 $200,000

Bellaire, TX Early Childhood Literacy Project- Phase III

WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY $20,000 $20,000

Middletown, CT Wesleyan Fund for Cardinal Scholarships ($10,000) and Women's Ice Hockey program ($10,000)

THE WESTVIEW SCHOOL, INC. $50,000 $50,000

Houston, TX Matching "Faculty Excellence-Annual Fund"

WHITMAN COLLEGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES $5,000 $5,000

Walla Walla, WA Annual Fund

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

EDUCATION

WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX Center for Computational Finance and Economic Systems


Houston, TX Matching gift-George R. Brown Tennis Complex


Houston, TX George R. Brown Tennis Complex


Houston, TX Matching gift-Annual Fund (2-1)


Houston, TX James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy


Houston, TX Shepherd School of Music


Houston, TX Matching gift-Annual Fund (2-1)


Houston, TX Jones Graduate School of Business


Houston, TX Rice Design Alliance


Houston, TX School of Architecture


Houston, TX Kinder Institute for Urban Research

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

EDUCATION

WILLIAMS COLLEGE $40,000 $40,000

Williamstown, MA Graduate program in the history of art

WILLIAMS COLLEGE $5,000 $5,000

Williamstown, MA Graduate program in the history of art

WOMEN'S RESOURCE OF GREATER HOUSTON $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX General operating funds

WONDERWORKS $7,500 $7,500


WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL $2,000 $2,000

Woodberry Forest, VA Matching gift-Operating support

WOODS PROJECT, INC. $15,000 $15,000

Houston, TX Summer 2016 Wilderness Immersion Program

WRITERS IN THE SCHOOLS $80,000 $80,000

Houston, Texas WITS Education for Schoolchildren

YALE UNIVERSITY $50,000 $50,000

New Haven, CT School of Management's Charles D. Ellis Academic Innovation Fund

YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY, INC. $100,000 $100,000

Houston, TX Educational Programming ($50,000) and Capital Projects ($50,000)

YES PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS, INC. $600,000 $600,000

Houston, TX "Redefine Possible Campaign"

$15,901,458 $15,901,458Total EDUCATION

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

HUMAN SERVICES

AIDS FOUNDATION HOUSTON, INC. $100,000 $100,000

Houston, TX General and administrative funds

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UN TECHO PARA MI PAIS, INC. $10,000 $10,000


AMERICAN RED CROSS - GREATER HOUSTON AREA CHAPTER $100 $100

Houston, TX Matching gift-Houston Disaster Relief

AMIGOS DE LAS AMERICAS $25,000 $25,000


ANNE K. TAYLOR FUND $5,000 $5,000

Billings, MT Kenya's Maasai Mara Game Reserve

ARTBRIDGE $25,000 $25,000


ASPIRE TO WIN, INC. $30,000 $30,000

Houston, TX ASPIRE to Win Program





ATHENA'S WAREHOUSE, INC. $12,000 $12,000

Atlanta, GA "Be Awesome, Be Aware" after school program

AUSTIN EXPLORE, INC. $10,000 $10,000

Austin, TX Program support

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

HUMAN SERVICES

AVANCE HOUSTON, INC. $87,500 $87,500

Houston, TX Parent and Child Education Program (PCEP)

AVENUE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX Affordable Housing and Community Revitalization

BABY BUGGY, INC. $16,640 $16,640


BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR $175,000 $175,000

Houston, TX Building Project in Houston, TX ($150,000) and Little Steps Big Futures Educational Initiative ($25,000)

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, INC. $1,000 $1,000

Brenham, TX Programming funds

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER HOUSTON, INC. $510,000 $510,000

Houston, TX Operating support ($10,000) & Capital support ($500,000)

BRIARWOOD-BROOKWOOD, INC. $6,500 $6,500

Brookshire, TX Brookwood operating support

BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS, INC. $20,000 $20,000

Pasadena, TX Children's Program (Shelter and Long-term Housing)

BRIDGES TO LIFE $12,500 $12,500

Houston, TX Restorative Justice Program

CAMP ALDERSGATE, INC. $1,000 $1,000



Little Rock, AR Activity Center Maintenance Fund

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

HUMAN SERVICES


Little Rock, AR General operating support

CAMP ALLEN CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER $100 $100

Navasota, TX Matching gift-Operating support

CAMP ALLEN CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER $600 $600

Navasota, TX Matching gift-Camper scholarship

CAMP ARANZAZU, INC. $280,000 $280,000

Houston, TX "Unlimited Horizons" Capital Campaign ($250,000) and Annual Camper Support ($30,000)

CAMP FOR ALL FOUNDATION $50,000 $50,000

Houston, TX Dam Remediation project

CAMP FOR ALL FOUNDATION $750 $750


CAMP FOR ALL FOUNDATION $1,875 $1,875


CAREER AND RECOVERY RESOURCES, INC. $20,000 $20,000

Houston, TX General operating

CAREER GEAR HOUSTON $1,000 $1,000

Houston, TX Educational room build out and expansion of the service center

CASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NIÑOS, INCORPORATED $70,000 $70,000

Houston, TX Residential Program

CASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NIÑOS, INCORPORATED $5,000 $5,000

Houston, TX Residential Program

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

HUMAN SERVICES

CATHEDRAL HEALTH MINISTRIES $100,000 $100,000

Houston, TX The Beacon Day Center and Brigid's Hope


Houston, TX Matching gift-The Beacon


Houston, TX The Beacon in honor of the Very Reverend Barclay Thompson

CHILD ADVOCATES, INCORPORATED $95,000 $95,000

Houston, TX 2015 Court Services Program ($70,000) and 2015 Capital Campaign ($25,000)

CHILDBUILDERS $45,000 $45,000

Houston, TX Operating funds

CHILDREN AT RISK, INC. $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX Research and Education Programs & Parenting Education Website

CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ARKANSAS $5,000 $5,000

North Little Rock, AR Matching gift-Program support

CHILDREN'S ASSESSMENT CENTER FOUNDATION $5,000 $5,000


CHILDREN'S PRISON ARTS PROJECT $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX Art Behind Walls-a Window to the Future

CHILDSAFE $5,500 $5,500

San Antonio, TX Program services

CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER, INC. $30,000 $30,000

Houston, TX New Horizons Expansion Project

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

HUMAN SERVICES

CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER, INC. $150 $150

Houston, TX Matching gift-Back to School

CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER, INC. $500 $500


CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER, INC. $1,020 $1,020


CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS $5,000 $5,000


COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON, INC. $250,000 $250,000

Houston, TX Dropout Prevention Adopt-a-School Program

COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO $5,000 $5,000

San Antonio, TX School supplies and operating support

COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO $125,000 $125,000

San Antonio, TX Non-Traditional Campuses "Stay-In-School" Project

CORNERSTONE RECOVERY, INC. $50 $50


CORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING $500,000 $500,000

Houston, TX The Way Home: A Collaborative Effort to End Chronic Homelessness in Houston

COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS $25,000 $25,000


CRISIS INTERVENTION OF HOUSTON, INCORPORATED $20,000 $20,000

Houston, TX CIH Resource Guide Phone App for Teens

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

HUMAN SERVICES

CRYSTAL PEAKS YOUTH RANCH CO $30,000 $30,000

Bend, OR Big Barn Remodel Project

DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER $90,000 $90,000

Houston, TX Challenge Grant for Trauma Team ($50,000) and general operating support ($40,000)

DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER $250 $250


DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER $250 $250






DOG TAG BREWING FOUNDATION $5,000 $5,000

Bozeman, MT Gold Star Family initiatives

EASTER SEALS ARKANSAS $1,000 $1,000


EASTER SEALS ARKANSAS $15,000 $15,000

Little Rock, AR Matching gift-Capital Campaign

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INSPIRING COMMUNITIES, INC. $7,000 $7,000

Houston, TX The HEART Program

EPIPHANY COMMUNITY HEALTH OUTREACH SERVICES $15,000 $15,000


AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

HUMAN SERVICES

ESCAPE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF THE EXCHANGE CLUBS OF HOUSTON

$25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX Programs, services and general operations

ESCAPE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF THE EXCHANGE CLUBS OF HOUSTON

$25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX Programs, Services & General Operations Support

FAMILY SERVICE CENTER AT HOUSTON AND HARRIS COUNTY $50,000 $50,000

Houston, TX Financial Stability services

FIFTH WARD ENRICHMENT PROGRAM $100,000 $100,000

Houston, TX Teen Enterprise Center

FOUNDATION FOR THE RETARDED $435,000 $435,000

Houston, TX Adult Activity Center ($60,000) and "Pursuit" Capital Campaign ($375,000)

FT. BEND COUNTY CHILD ADVOCATES, INC. $5,000 $5,000

Rosenberg, TX General operating support

GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF HOUSTON $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX Veteran Employment Training Services

HOLLY HALL $150 $150


HOLLY HALL $150 $150


HOLLY HALL $5,000 $5,000


AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

HUMAN SERVICES

HOPE AND HEALING CENTER & INSTITUTE $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX Mental Health Programs, Supportive Services and Training

HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER, INC. $75,000 $75,000


HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER, INC. $5,000 $5,000


HOUSTON COMPASS, INC. $15,000 $15,000

Houston, TX General operating expenses

HOUSTON FOOD BANK $30,000 $30,000

Houston, TX Backpack Buddy Program

HOUSTON FOOD BANK $780,000 $780,000

Houston, TX Backpack Buddy Program ($30,000) and "Campaign to Change the Future" ($750,000)

HOUSTON TENNIS ASSOCIATION, INC. $5,000 $5,000

Houston, TX National Junior Tennis & Learning in honor of Ralph and Becky O'Connor

HOUSTON TENNIS ASSOCIATION, INC. $2,000 $2,000

Houston, TX Matching gift-National Junior Tennis & Learning (2-1)

HOUSTON: REVISION $40,000 $40,000


HOUSTON'S AMAZING PLACE, INC. $25,000 $25,000


INTERFAITH MINISTRIES FOR GREATER HOUSTON $50 $50

Houston, TX Matching gift-aniMeals on Wheels

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

HUMAN SERVICES

INTERFAITH MINISTRIES FOR GREATER HOUSTON $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX Meals on Wheels

INTERFAITH MINISTRIES FOR GREATER HOUSTON $100 $100

Houston, TX Matching gift-aniMeals on Wheels

KIDS' MEALS, INC. $50,000 $50,000

Houston, TX Central Houston Meal Delivery Route Expansion

LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND OF HOUSTON $400,000 $400,000


MAGNIFICAT HOUSE $15,000 $15,000

Houston, TX Loaves & Fishes

THE MISSION CONTINUES $35,000 $35,000

St. Louis, MO Empowering Veterans in Houston to Build Successful Transitions

THE MISSION CONTINUES $5,000 $5,000

St. Louis, MO Empowering Veterans in Houston to Build Successful Transitions

NAVIDAD EN EL BARRIO $5,000 $5,000

Houston, TX Christmas program

NEHEMIAH CENTER, INC. $20,000 $20,000


NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS, INC. $500 $500


NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS, INC. $850,000 $850,000

Houston, TX "Building Neighborhoods That Work" ($600,000) and "Learn, Earn, Belong" ($250,000)

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

HUMAN SERVICES

NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS, INC. $5,000 $5,000

Houston, TX "Building Neighborhoods That Work" campaign

NEW ENGLAND HANDICAPPED SPORTS ASSOCIATION, INC. $10,000 $10,000

Newbury, NH Building Campaign

NEW HOPE HOUSING, INC. $350,000 $350,000

Houston, TX Capital campaign to construct NHH at Reed ($250,000) and Operating support ($100,000)

NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES $50,000 $50,000

Houston, TX Meals on Wheels ($25,000) and Roots & Wings building campaign ($25,000)

NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX Meals on Wheels

OUR HOUSE, INC. $1,000 $1,000


P.A.R.K. FOUNDATION, INC. $30,000 $30,000

Little Rock, AR Summer Enrichment Program

PARTNERS FOR HARRIS COUNTY CHILDREN, INC. $30,000 $30,000

Houston, TX BEAR...BE A Resource for CPS Kids general operating support

PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT & IMMERSION OF REFUGEES

$30,000

Houston, TX General operating funds (multi-3 years)


$2,500 $2,500


AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

HUMAN SERVICES


$2,500 $2,500


PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS $10,000 $10,000

Rockwall, TX Operating support

PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES AND SERVICES $35,000 $35,000

Austin, TX Houston Adoption and Foster Care

PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM $20,000 $20,000


PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM $20,000 $20,000

Houston, TX Workforce Training and Entrepreneurship Development Program

QUAPAW AREA COUNCIL, BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA $1,000 $1,000

Little Rock, AR Matching gift-Friends of Scouting

REBUILDING TOGETHER HOUSTON $15,000 $15,000

Houston, TX 2015 Students in Service

S. W. CHANCE, INC. $1,000 $1,000

Maumelle, AR Matching gift-2016 Sponsorship

SALVATION ARMY GREATER HOUSTON AREA COMMAND $100 $100

Houston, TX Matching gift-Young Adult Resource Center

SALVATION ARMY GREATER HOUSTON AREA COMMAND $600 $600


AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

HUMAN SERVICES

SALVATION ARMY GREATER HOUSTON AREA COMMAND $200,000 $200,000

Houston, TX The Wayne Bergstrom Center of Hope

SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK, INC. $5,000 $5,000


SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK, INC. $50,000 $50,000

San Antonio, TX Food IQ

SEARCH HOMELESS SERVICES $100,000 $100,000

Houston, TX General operating/Program support

SMALL STEPS NURTURING CENTER $5,000 $5,000

Houston, TX New Van

SMALL STEPS NURTURING CENTER $250 $250


SOUTHMORE FOUNDATION, INC. $40,000 $40,000

Houston, TX Sheridan Study Center Expansion Project

STAR OF HOPE MISSION $200,000 $200,000

Houston, TX Cornerstone Community

TAPING FOR THE BLIND, INC. $15,000 $15,000

Houston, TX Radio, Customized Reading and Description Program

TEAM RUBICON $10,000 $10,000

El Segundo, CA Operating support

TEXAS HEARING AND SERVICE DOGS, INC. $7,000 $7,000

Dripping Springs, TX Operating support

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

HUMAN SERVICES

TURNING POINTS NETWORK $10,000 $10,000

Claremont, NH Program support

UNITED WAY OF GREATER HOUSTON $125,000 $125,000

Houston, TX 2015-16 Annual Community Campaign

UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS, INC. $2,000 $2,000

Pine Bluff, AR Matching gift-Operating support (2-1)

VITA-LIVING, INC. $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX General operations and program support

VOLUNTEER INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS-SOUTHWEST $5,000 $5,000

Bellaire, TX Free Transportation for Seniors

VOLUNTEER INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS-SOUTHWEST $2,500 $2,500

Bellaire, TX Operating support

W. LEO DANIELS TOWERS, INC. $15,000 $15,000

Houston, TX Congregate Housing Services Program

WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER, INC. $60,000 $60,000


WOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE

$2,500 $2,500


THE WOMEN'S HOME $150,000 $150,000

Houston, TX Capital Campaign-WholeLife Service Center ($100,000) and Operating support ($50,000)

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

HUMAN SERVICES

THE WOMEN'S HOME $1,000 $1,000



Houston, TX Treatment and Transitional Housing Program



WORKSHOP HOUSTON $100,000 $100,000

Houston, TX Capital Campaign ($75,000) and operating support ($25,000) (challenge)

WORKSHOP HOUSTON $5,000 $5,000

Houston, TX Middle and High School Program

WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT, INC. $209 $209

Jacksonville, FL Matching gift-Program support

YOUNG LIFE $10,000 $10,000

Colorado Springs, CO Matching gift-Little Rock Capernaum support

YOUNG LIFE $10,000 $10,000

Colorado Springs, CO Young Life College UTSA (TX-481)

YOUNG LIFE $20,000 $20,000

Colorado Springs, CO Little Rock Capernaum

$7,936,394 $7,966,394Total HUMAN SERVICES

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

MEDICINE & SCIENCE

ACCESS ESPERANZA CLINICS, INC. $75,000 $75,000

McAllen, TX Project Access

ALICE PECK DAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL $10,000 $10,000

Lebanon, NH Annual Giving Program

ALZHEIMER'S ARKANSAS PROGRAMS & SERVICES $1,000 $1,000


ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION, INC. $25,000 $25,000

Little Rock, AR Arkansas Garden Corps program

THE ARTHUR NAGEL COMMUNITY CLINIC, INC. $25,000 $25,000

Bandera, TX Access to Healthcare

BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION $2,500 $2,500


BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION $30,000 $30,000

Little Rock, AR BHealthy Farmers Market Program

BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE $7,500 $7,500

Houston, TX Maconda Brown O'Connor, Ph.D. Adult Cystic Fibrosis Center

BLUE BIRD CIRCLE $12,500 $12,500

Houston, TX Clinic for Pediatric Neurology, Developmental Neurogenetics Laboratory, Rett Center, Clinical Research Center

BO'S PLACE $429 $429


BO'S PLACE $20,000 $20,000


AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

MEDICINE & SCIENCE

CENIKOR FOUNDATION, INC. $30,000 $30,000

Houston, TX Odyssey House treatment counselor's salary

COLON CANCER COALITION FOUNDATION $100 $100

Edina, MN Matching gift-2015 Houston Get Your Rear in Gear

CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION, TEXAS GULF COAST CHAPTER $4,000 $4,000

Houston, TX Research, patient care and education in Texas

DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE $5,000 $5,000

Brookline, MA Leonard P. Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies

DBSA GREATER HOUSTON $15,000 $15,000

Houston, TX Support Group Program

DBSA GREATER HOUSTON $5,000 $5,000


DR. MARNIE ROSE FOUNDATION, INC. $100 $100


EL CENTRO DE CORAZON $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX Comprehensive Health Care Services

EYE CARE FOR KIDS FOUNDATION $1,000 $1,000

Houston, TX School vision screening and eye care voucher programs

EYE CARE FOR KIDS FOUNDATION $16,000 $16,000

Houston, TX Eye Care for Kids

GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION OF TEXAS, INC. $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX Scholarship Programs

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

MEDICINE & SCIENCE

HEALTH ALLIANCE FOR AUSTIN MUSICIANS $2,500 $2,500

Austin, TX HAAM Benefit Day in honor of Ray Benson

HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS-HOUSTON $325,000 $325,000

Houston, TX Capital Campaign ($300,000) and General Operations ($25,000)

HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION $5,000 $5,000

San Antonio, TX San Antonio operating support in honor of Francisco G. Cigarroa, M.D.

HOUSTON AREA PARKINSON SOCIETY $35,000 $35,000

Houston, TX Therapeutic Program

HOUSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS, INC. $25,000 $25,000


HOUSTON COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE $50,000 $50,000

Houston, TX Center for Recovering Families

HOUSTON HOSPICE $100 $100


HOUSTON HOSPICE $100,000 $100,000


HOUSTON TRI DELTA PHILANTHROPIES, INC. $1,000 $1,000


HOUSTON-HARRIS COUNTY IMMUNIZATION REGISTRY, INC. $20,000 $20,000

Katy, TX Education Programs for Providers, Parent Network and Community

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

MEDICINE & SCIENCE

INSTITUTE FOR SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH AT THE TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER

$150 $150


LAKE SUNAPEE HOME CARE AND HOSPICE $10,000 $10,000

New London, NH Information Technology Upgrades

LEADERS FOR TOMORROW $10,000 $10,000

Williamsburg, VA Murray Bowen Archives Project

LIVING BANK INTERNATIONAL $5,000 $5,000

Houston, TX Special Campaign for General, Minority and Veterans Public Education program

LOVE HEALS, INC. $5,000 $5,000


MELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION $25,000 $25,000

Washington, DC Melanoma research in honor of Dr. Patricia Wexler

MEMORIAL HERMANN FOUNDATION $100 $100

Houston, TX Matching gift-Breast Care Centers at Memorial Hermann

THE MENNINGER CLINIC $200,000 $200,000

Houston, TX McNair Initiative for Neuroscience Discovery at Menninger and Baylor College of Medicine (MIND-MB)

THE MENNINGER CLINIC $5,000 $5,000


MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF GREATER HOUSTON, INC. $50,000 $50,000

Houston, TX Houston Education and Training Program

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

MEDICINE & SCIENCE

METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION $640 $640

Houston, TX Matching gift-Excellence Fund for Leading Medicine

METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION $150,000 $150,000

Houston, TX The Brown Foundation, Inc. Outstanding Nurse Award

METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION $5,000 $5,000

Houston, TX Matching gift-The Society for Leading Medicine

MONTROSE COUNSELING CENTER, INC. $120,000 $120,000

Houston, TX There's No Place Like Home Capital Campaign ($100,000) and LIFE Counseling & WAY OUT Recovery Programs ($20,000)

MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION, INC. $280 $280

Chicago, IL Matching gift-ALS Research support

NEW LONDON HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, INC. $10,000 $10,000

New London, NH Newport Health Center

NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND, INC. $17,600 $17,600

New York, NY Matching gift-Komansky Center for Children's Health/Pediatrics

NORA'S GIFT FOUNDATION, INC. $50,000 $50,000

Houston, TX 2016 Phase II Capital Campaign

PALMER DRUG ABUSE PROGRAM HOUSTON, INC. $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX General operating fund

THE PERIWINKLE FOUNDATION $10,000 $10,000


THE PERIWINKLE FOUNDATION $5,000 $5,000

Houston, TX Camp Periwinkle

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

MEDICINE & SCIENCE

PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA, INC. $100,000 $100,000

New York, NY Planned Parenthood Global

PLANNED PARENTHOOD GULF COAST, INC. $200,000 $200,000






PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH TEXAS $5,000 $5,000


PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH TEXAS $5,000 $5,000


PREVENT BLINDNESS TEXAS $5,000 $5,000

Houston, TX "Healthy Eyes" Program

RECONSTRUCTION OF A SURVIVOR, INC. $75 $75


RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF HOUSTON, INC. $300,000 $300,000

Houston, TX Behind Every Door Campaign

SAN JOSE CLINIC $50 $50


SAN JOSE CLINIC $45,000 $45,000

Houston, TX Sustaining Access to Affordable Healthcare for Houston's Uninsurable

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

MEDICINE & SCIENCE

SANTA ROSA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION $10,000 $10,000

San Antonio, TX "Putting Children First" construction fund

SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN $25,000 $25,000

Houston, TX Galveston -- On-Site School

ST. LUKE'S FOUNDATION $130,000 $130,000

Houston, TX Surgical Fellowships in Abdominal Transplantation


Houston, TX Nick Finnegan Counseling Center

ST. LUKE'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH $400 $400



Houston, TX Nick Finnegan Counseling Center

ST. VINCENT INFIRMARY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION $10,000 $10,000

Little Rock, AR CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs Physician Recruiting Program

ST. VINCENT INFIRMARY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION $1,000 $1,000

Little Rock, AR Matching gift-Charley Tanner Scholarship Fund

SUSAN G. KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION, INC.- HOUSTON AFFILIATE

$100 $100

Houston, TX Matching gift-Race for the Cure

TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE $10,000 $10,000

San Antonio, TX Unrestricted program support

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

MEDICINE & SCIENCE

TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE $1,000 $1,000


TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL $50 $50





Houston, TX Matching gift-Texas Children's Cancer Center

TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL $1,500,000 $1,500,000

Houston, TX "Promise Campaign": New Pediatric Tower

TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL $5,000 $5,000


TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL $15,000 $15,000

Houston, TX Fraser's Friends

TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE $225,000 $225,000

Houston, TX Screening of Schoolchildren for High Risk Cardiac Conditions


Houston, TX Cardiovascular research efforts support



AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

MEDICINE & SCIENCE

THE INSTITUTE FOR REHABILITATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION

$200,000 $200,000

Houston, TX Mission Connect

TLC FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER $10,000 $10,000

Claremont, NH Early Childhood Home Visitation Program (Good Beginnings of Sullivan County)


Austin, TX Department of Astronomy


San Antonio, TX Graduate or post-doctoral student medical research support in memory of Louise Pryzant Ribnik


San Antonio, TX Graduate or post-doctoral student medical research support in memory of Gerald Rauch


$1,000 $1,000

Houston, TX Sue McRaney Indigent Care Endowment Fund


$250 $250

Houston, TX Matching gift-UTHealth Medical School Dean's Excellence Fund


$10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX "Christopher Sarofim Family Professorship in Biomedical Informatics and Bioengineering"


$10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX Anita Borges Stude Scholarship Fund

AMOUNT PAID

NEW COMMITMENTS

GRANTEE

MEDICINE & SCIENCE

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO

$10,000 $10,000

San Antonio, TX Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO

$15,000 $15,000

San Antonio, TX Bartell and Mollie Zachry Endowment for Alzheimer's Disease Research and Clinical Care

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS M. D. ANDERSON CANCER CENTER $2,500 $2,500



Houston, TX The Institute for Personalized Cancer Therapy.


Houston, TX Making Cancer History: The Campaign to Transform Cancer Care

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH AT GALVESTON $5,000 $5,000

Galveston, TX Matching gift-Goffe Presidential Scholarship

WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH $25,000 $25,000

Cambridge, MA 2016 Annual Fund

THE WOMEN'S FUND FOR HEALTH EDUCATION AND RESEARCH $10,000 $10,000

Houston, TX Adolescent Girl's Health Program

$4,625,549 $4,625,549Total MEDICINE & SCIENCE

FINAL TOTALS $63,554,496 $63,834,496

Assets

Cash and cash equivalents 92,880,258$ Investment income receivable 1,210,846 Prepaid expenses and other assets 82,031 Investments, at fair value 1,131,415,623 Federal excise tax receivable 751,000 Property and equipment, net 1,642,414

Total Assets 1,227,982,172$

Liabilities and Net Assets

Liabilities Accounts payable and accrued expenses 455,939$ Deferred revenue - oil and gas properties 101,615 Grants payable 125,000 Unsettled oil and gas net profit interest 2,108,445 Deferred federal excise tax 3,339,693

Total Liabilities 6,130,692

Net Assets Unrestricted 465,710,081 Temporarily restricted 756,141,399

Total Net Assets 1,221,851,480

Total Liabilities and Net Assets 1,227,982,172$

Consolidated Statement of Financial Position June 30, 2016

The Brown Foundation, Inc.

Temporarily CombinedUnrestricted Restricted Total

Revenue Investment return (829,817)$ (6,848,220)$ (7,678,037)$ Net assets released from restrictions 57,595,722 (57,595,722) -

Total Revenue 56,765,905 (64,443,942) (7,678,037)

Expenses Grants awarded 63,804,496 - 63,804,496 Investment management fees 2,057,519 - 2,057,519 Management and general 2,435,076 - 2,435,076 Federal excise tax 15,854 - 15,854

Total Expenses 68,312,945 - 68,312,945

Changes in Net Assets (11,547,040) (64,443,942) (75,990,982)

Net Assets, Beginning of Year 477,257,121 820,585,341 1,297,842,462

Net Assets, End of Year 465,710,081$ 756,141,399$ 1,221,851,480$

The purpose of these statements is to provide summarized financial information for the Foundation.The financial statements of The Brown Foundation, Inc. for the year ended June 30, 2016 wereaudited by Blazek & Vetterling. A copy of their report can be obtained by writing to The Brown Foundation, Inc., P. O. Box 130646, Houston, Texas 77219-0646.

The Brown Foundation, Inc.Consolidated Statement of Activities

June 30, 2016

THE BROWN FOUNDATION, INC. STAFF

Nancy Pittman, Executive Director

Katy Hays, Chief Grants Officer

Jacklyn Tatge, Chief Financial Officer

Gwen Goffe, Chief Investment Officer

Please direct all correspondence and original proposal packets to:


Nancy Pittman, Executive Director P.O. Box 130646

Houston, TX 77219-0646

(713) 523-6867 FAX: (713) 523-2917

E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: www.brownfoundation.org

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