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One donor community, two institutions

Rice University and the Houston Ballet are separate canonical entities — but the people who fund them are the same Houston elite. Six individuals sit on both sides at once; the graph makes the overlap a traversable path, not a guess. Start at either institution and you reach the other through the donors they share.

alumnus trustee alumna trustee alumna trustee alumnus board alumna board trustee affiliated RiceUniversity716 alumni HoustonBalletFoundation · 268 trustees AsiaSocietyTexas Center James Crownover Kate Fowler Anne Chao Albert Chao YuePing Sun Leigh Smith
Institution (canonical node) Shared donor / trustee Every tie is sourced and confirmed in the graph.
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James Crownover, Kate Fowler, and Anne Chao are Rice alumni and Houston Ballet trustees; Albert Chao and YuePing Sun link Rice to the Asia Society; Leigh Smith links the Ballet to it. A first-pass pilot on the Ballet's 268-member board surfaced this overlap automatically. Figures as of Aug 13, 2026.