Agee Family Foundation
Houston, TX · EIN 01-0939828. Reported 126 grants totalling $3,124,562 to 58 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. 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 $5,265 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. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ccsc - Christian Community Service Center | Houston, TX | $465,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Ace Scholarship Houston | Greenwood Village, CO | $410,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Houston Achievement Place | Houston, TX | $250,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Institute for Spirituality and Health | Houston, TX | $175,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| St John Paul II Foundation | Houston, TX | $153,400 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Sharpen Recovery | Houston, TX | $125,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| St Agnes Academy | Houston, TX | $115,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Summerhouse Houston | Houston, TX | $115,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| His Father's Heart Ministeries | Houston, TX | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Western Academy | Houston, TX | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Paul's Choir School | Cambridge, MA | $86,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Gigi's Playhouse Down Syndrome Achievement Center | Hoffman Estates, IL | $75,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Little Sisters of Assumption Health Service | New York, NY | $68,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| 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 |
| Horizons at St David's School | New York, NY | $42,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Big Country FCA | Abilene, TX | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society | Rye Brook, NY | $38,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Sua Sponte Foundation | Savannah, GA | $37,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Memorial Hermann Foundation | Houston, TX | $33,333 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Our Lady of Walsingham | Houston, TX | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| American Foundation for Suicide Prevention | New York, NY | $28,750 | 3 | 3 | 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 |
| Strake Jesuit | Houston, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| University of St Thomas | Houston, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Christ the King Presbyterian Church | Houston, TX | $22,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Compass Women's Care | Jackson, WY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 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 |
| Houston Philanthropy Circle | Houston, TX | $10,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| American Suicide Prevention Society | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Archdiocese for Military Services | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Children's Prison Art Project | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Child Advocates | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Multidisciplinary Assoc of Psy Studies | San Jose, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Parish School | Houston, TX | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Maps | Sherman Oaks, CA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New York Philharmonic | New York, NY | $5,265 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Central Park Conservancy | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Challenged Athlete Foundation | San Diego, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Discalced Carmelite Nuns | Alexandria, SD | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Discalced Hermits | Fairfield, PR | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Catholic Prison Ministries Coalition | Austin, TX | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Catholic Charities USA | Alexandria, VA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Philanthropy Round Table | Washington, DC | $2,564 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| 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 |
30 of 58 (52%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 67%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
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 - Houston Achievement Place
SERVING CHILDREN WHO ARE DISADVANTAGED, UNDER-SERVED, AND FROM LOW INCOME FAMILIES - Summerhouse Houston
Community-based day services and supported employment services - Institute for Spirituality and Health
TO ENHANCE WELL-BEING BY EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 54 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
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 |
| 2025 | 25 | $504,829 | $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
68% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $13,500. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- 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 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
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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