Agee Family Foundation
Houston, TX · EIN 01-0939828. Reported 101 grants totalling $2,619,733 to 48 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Agee Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $13,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $8,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $255,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ccsc - Christian Community Service Center | Houston, TX | $420,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ace Scholarship Houston | Greenwood Village, CO | $410,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Houston Achievement Place | Houston, TX | $175,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St John Paul II Foundation | Houston, TX | $123,400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Institute for Spirituality and Health | Houston, TX | $115,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Agnes Academy | Houston, TX | $115,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| His Father's Heart Ministeries | Houston, TX | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Western Academy | Houston, TX | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sharpen Recovery | Houston, TX | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Summerhouse Houston | Houston, TX | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Paul's Choir School | Cambridge, MA | $66,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Gigi's Playhouse Down Syndrome Achievement Center | Hoffman Estates, IL | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Magnolia School | Houston, TX | $56,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Cristo Rey Jesuit | Houston, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of the Fetal Center | Mckinney, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Houston Grand Opera | Houston, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Fetal Center at Children's Memorial Hermann | Houston, TX | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| NAMI - National Alliance on Mental Illness | Arlington, VA | $42,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society | Rye Brook, NY | $38,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Horizons at St David's School | New York, NY | $37,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Memorial Hermann Foundation | Houston, TX | $33,333 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Big Country FCA | Abilene, TX | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Sua Sponte Foundation | Savannah, GA | $29,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Foundation for Suicide Prevention | New York, NY | $28,750 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Little Sisters of Assumption Health Service | New York, NY | $28,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Marymount School | New York, NY | $27,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| San Francisco Nativity Academy | Houston, TX | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Seal Legacy Foundation | Austin, TX | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of St Thomas | Houston, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Compass Women's Care | Jackson, WY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Our Lady of Walsingham | Houston, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Special Operations Warrior Foundation | Tampa, FL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Challenger Sports Football | Houston, TX | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| St David's School | Raleigh, NC | $13,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Twloha - to Write Love on Her Arms | Melbourne, FL | $11,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Children's Prison Art Project | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Child Advocates | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Christ the King Presbyterian Church | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Houston Philanthropy Circle | Houston, TX | $8,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Parish School | Houston, TX | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Maps | Sherman Oaks, CA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Catholic Prison Ministries Coalition | Austin, TX | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Catholic Charities USA | Alexandria, VA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jackson Hole Classical Academy | Jackson, WY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hunting for Heroes Wyoming | Casper, WY | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Trevor Project | West Hollywood, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Westview School | Houston, TX | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Reformed University Fellowship - Tamu | Austin, TX | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
29 of 48 (60%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 68%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Ccsc - Christian Community Service Center
EDUCATION/SERVICE TO THE POOR - Ace Scholarship Houston
TO PROVIDE CHILDREN OF LOW-INCOME FAMILIES WITH SCHOLARSHIPS TO PRIVATE SCHOOLS - His Father's Heart Ministeries
To help both the brokenhearted and returning citizens break their cycles of destructive behavior - Summerhouse Houston
Community-based day services and supported employment services - Houston Achievement Place
SERVING CHILDREN WHO ARE DISADVANTAGED, UNDER-SERVED, AND FROM LOW INCOME FAMILIES - St John Paul II Foundation
PROCLAIMING THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT LIFE AND FAMILY THROUGH EDUCATION AND FORMATION
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 47 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 22 | $882,033 | $15,850 |
| 2022 | 28 | $565,700 | $11,500 |
| 2023 | 28 | $712,000 | $12,375 |
| 2024 | 23 | $460,000 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 68% of this one's giving went to organizations in Texas. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $13,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Texas.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Agee Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1251 Lumpkin Rd, Houston, TX, 77043. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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