The Walter and Leila Mischer Family Foundation appears to concentrate its giving locally with a single, large grant supporting a Houston-based nonprofit focused on healing and recovery. The foundation made a general-purpose/general operating award to Hope and Healing Center & Institute, indicating interest in sustaining community-based therapeutic or victim-support services rather than narrow project funding. Its giving is distinctive for being highly concentrated and directed to organizations providing recovery, counseling, or community healing work.
Highly concentrated: one large, unrestricted/general-purpose grant to a single local grantee rather than many small awards; appears to prefer supporting core operating needs of mission-driven community organizations.
A single 2024 grant of $301,093 to Hope and Healing Center & Institute points to the Walter and Leila Mischer Family Foundati’s defining pattern: concentrated local support for Houston organizations working in healing, recovery, and community services. The foundation’s recent giving also includes awards to St Martin's Episcopal Church and The Salvation Army, showing that it supports a mix of faith-linked, social service, and community care organizations. In the available grant list, every recipient is in the United States, and most are in Houston, reinforcing a clearly local footprint. The foundation’s size and grant mix suggest a relatively focused donor with a small number of awards rather than a broad national portfolio. Its largest grant is far above the rest of the listed awards, while the remaining gifts fall into much smaller levels. That pattern fits a funder making general charitable purpose support to organizations with direct community-facing roles. The recent grants also include The Children's Fund, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Communities in Schools of Houston, and The Jung Center, which indicates interest beyond a single service niche and into broader local civic and cultural institutions.
In healing and behavioral health, the foundation made its largest recent award to Hope and Healing Center & Institute for general charitable purpose support. That single grant is the clearest signal in the record that recovery and counseling-related work sits near the center of its giving. The foundation also supported community-serving institutions outside health care. It gave $15,000 to The Children's Fund for general charitable purpose, and $5,000 to Communities in Schools of Houston for the same purpose, showing attention to children and student support in Houston. Cultural and educational enrichment appears as another thread. The foundation awarded $7,500 to Museum of Fine Arts Houston and $5,000 to The Jung Center, both for general charitable purpose support. A $2,500 grant to National Museum of Women in the Arts and a $1,500 grant to The University of Texas at Austin broaden the picture beyond Houston while keeping the giving pattern modest and purpose-based.
$182K
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$214K
Most grants fall between $5K and $15K, with a median of $8K.
25th Percentile
$5K
Median
$8K
75th Percentile
$15K
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Notable grantees: Hope and Healing Center & Institute
Typical grants are modest, with a p25 of $5,000, a median of $7,500, and a p75 of $15,000. The distribution is skewed by one unusually large 2024 award of $301,093, while most other listed gifts sit between $1,500 and $20,000. The record shows both one-off and repeated annual activity, since grants appear in 2023 and 2024. The foundation gives locally and does not fund individuals. The available data also points to broad charitable support rather than restricted program-specific awards, because the listed grants are all marked general charitable purpose. No application process is shown in the provided data.
Giving is overwhelmingly centered in Texas, which accounts for 89% of grants in the dataset. Houston is the main recipient city, with multiple awards going there across 2023 and 2024. Other Texas recipients include Austin, while the only non-Texas recipient in the recent list is in Washington, DC. The recipient-country distribution is entirely domestic: 9 grants, or 100%, went to US organizations. This pattern aligns with a local grantmaker whose awards cluster in the Houston area.
The recent grants point to general charitable support for Houston-based health and healing services, social service organizations, schools-related nonprofits, and cultural institutions. Named recipients include Hope and Healing Center & Institute, The Salvation Army, Communities in Schools of Houston, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and The Jung Center.
The foundation’s typical grant size is relatively small to moderate: p25 is $5,000, median is $7,500, and p75 is $15,000. The recent list also includes one much larger outlier at $301,093.
Yes. The data shows a local scope of giving, with 89% of grants going to recipients in Texas. Houston is the most frequent recipient city in the recent grants list, and all listed grants went to US organizations.
Yes, the record shows grants in both 2023 and 2024, indicating activity across multiple years. The giving pattern is concentrated rather than broad, with a few awards each year and one very large grant in 2024.
No. The foundation does not fund individuals, and it does not make program-related investments.
2025
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2025.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KINKAID SCHOOL | HOUSTON, TX | $83,334 | 2025 | GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE |
| GRACE CHURCH - THE ROARING FORK | BASALT, CO | $25,000 | 2025 | GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE |
| ST MARTIN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | HOUSTON, TX | $20,000 | 2025 | GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE |
| HOPE AND HEALING CENTER & INSTITUTE | HOUSTON, TX | $15,000 | 2025 | GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE |
| FRESH ARTS | HOUSTON, TX | $10,900 | 2025 | GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE |
| THE COUNCIL ON RECOVERY | HOUSTON, TX | $6,000 | 2025 | GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE |
| VETS INC | SOUTHLAKE, TX | $5,272 | 2025 | GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE |
| MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF GREATER HOUSTON | HOUSTON, TX | $5,000 | 2025 | GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE |
| BO'S PLACE | HOUSTON, TX | $5,000 | 2025 | GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON | HOUSTON, TX | $5,000 | 2025 | GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON | HOUSTON, TX | $1,500 | 2025 | GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE |
| HOPE AND HEALING CENTER & INSTITUTE | HOUSTON, TX | $301,093 | 2024 | GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE |
| ST MARTIN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | HOUSTON, TX | $20,000 | 2024 | GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | HOUSTON, TX | $15,000 | 2024 | GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE |
| THE CHILDREN'S FUND | HOUSTON, TX | $15,000 | 2023 | GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON | HOUSTON, TX | $7,500 | 2023 | GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE |
| THE JUNG CENTER | HOUSTON, TX | $5,000 | 2023 | GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON | HOUSTON, TX | $5,000 | 2023 | GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE |
| NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS | WASHINGTON, DC | $2,500 | 2023 | GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | AUSTIN, TX | $1,500 | 2023 | GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE |
GRACE CHURCH - THE ROARING FORK
$25,000GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE
ST MARTIN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
$20,000GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE
GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE
VETS INC
$5,272GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE
ST MARTIN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
$20,000GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE
THE SALVATION ARMY
$15,000GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE
THE CHILDREN'S FUND
$15,000GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE
THE JUNG CENTER
$5,000GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE